Natalie Morrill
@nataliemorrill.bsky.social
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All things counter, original, spare, strange | THE GHOST KEEPER - HarperCollins Canada 2018
I have been sick with a bad cold & migraines the last few days. Much help received: Dad has walked Gus; Mum has sent me soup; husband (working in US) had soup delivered to my house. 💙 Gus has barked at me anytime I sneezed to tell me it's wrong.
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This is a really moving, challenging story about a couple who invited an acquaintance to stay with them over Christmas when he was without another home, & then ended up having him stay on for the remaining 45 years of his life:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
8 days ago
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Husband valiantly trying to steer the family group chat from college football to Anglo-Saxon word origin trivia
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Chris Hayes
27 days ago
What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.
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Nursery rhyme recounting the traditional way to lure a bat into your hat
27 days ago
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Voicememo from John today described a joyful "Gaudete, Christus est natus ex Maria Virginae (etc.)" at Mass (verses single voice, choir for chorus) of which he did not know the composer but which made him want to do a jig. Such a jiggable, jubilant carol.🩷
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSx...
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The King's Singers - Gaudete
YouTube video by Radial by The Orchard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSxg9Ij5r8
27 days ago
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Joshua J. Friedman
about 1 month ago
My favorite ludicrous New Yorker style is that they print initialisms in full caps but acronyms (initialisms pronounced as words) in small caps, so in the days of CD-ROMs, they'd write the word like this:
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🙏🙏 Ah he was so good at what he did. Requiescat in pace.
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Harrison Lemke
about 1 month ago
Boots Quest, my humorous adventure game, is on deep discount this weekend! collect boots, throw away swords, meddle in the lives of hapless npcs, all for the price of a cup of coffee (not even the super fancy kind). please check it out!
discountrealms.itch.io/boots-quest-dx
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Boots Quest DX by Discount Realms
An offbeat adventure about finding the best boots in the world
https://discountrealms.itch.io/boots-quest-dx
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If there happens to be a bag of clementines at the store that includes one huge clementine, that's the bag you have to buy
about 1 month ago
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Happy Thanksgiving, dear US pals! I am up north where it's just another November Thursday, but thankfully my husband got to go visit his fam. I'm eagerly awaiting photos of the big pickle.
about 1 month ago
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Looking at Medusa only via mirror to be confident she's not a vampire
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As the end of 2025 approaches, I can already state confidently that this has been my biggest year ever for giving jumpstarts to other drivers' cars
about 2 months ago
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Coleslaw mix included cabbage bones 🦴
about 2 months ago
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Hoar frost morning ❄️
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Ed Morrish
about 2 months ago
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A couple of my pals (men who work in the trades) were explaining the work ethos among their colleagues, & said, "The deal is that you can't get emotional at work, & also that anger is not an emotion." Something fundamental here.
about 2 months ago
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A problem that currently exists in Canadian politics is a lack of consensus around how you distinguish between the faces of the PM & the Leader of the Opposition in editorial cartoons. Current editorial cartoon landscape fraught with ambiguity.
about 2 months ago
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Tonight's listening, thanks to the algorithm 🎶👺🌈
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高中正義『Masayoshi Takanaka』– 虹伝説 『The Rainbow Goblins』[1981]
YouTube video by 風の音
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzYD56hKF-8
about 2 months ago
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Happy Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran! When John & I went to Rome, we went looking for it (Holy Door, baby) but had no idea what it looked like. I was directing us past it & John was like, "How about we just check out that huge church first." T.y. J. 🙏
2 months ago
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Accidentally let my dog eat a Hawkins Cheesie; real risk that he will sell me to obtain more
2 months ago
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Perplexing my grandchildren by having "Tha'll do, Pig" inscribed on my gravestone
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Philip Bump
2 months ago
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I hate sports. Why do we do this 😰🤢😰
2 months ago
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- Rice in the freezer & eggs in the fridge, so fried rice for breakfast - Decided to add purple cabbage because I had some handy - Some kind of pigment chemistry transpires - Truly psychadelic breakfast
2 months ago
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They're always saying, "When Coleridge wrote 'Kubla Khan,' he was tripping on opium," but never, "When Coleridge wrote 'Kubla Khan,' he was tripping on opium that he'd taken because he had terrible diarrhea"
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I was walking with a woman in the dog park who had vivid childhood memories of watching the 1993 Blue Jays World Series at a family friend's cottage. Unfortunately, they involved the family's golden retriever trying to hump her the entire time.
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Andrew Kurjata
2 months ago
Everywhere I go, people are wearing Jays gear. People I know who have never watched baseball (me included) are staying up past midnight to for an 18th inning. The coffee shop has baseball donuts. And, I cannot emphasize this enough, I am in a city *3000 km from Toronto* Canada is behind this team
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Is baseball still America’s game? The Blue Jays are changing the idea of who baseball is for | CBC Arts
Jays fan Sadaf Ahsan and sports journalist Shireen Ahmed examine the cultural changes at play.
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/commotion/is-baseball-still-americas-game-the-blue-jays-are-changing-the-idea-of-who-baseball-is-for-9.6955445
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Need this image for sundry contexts
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Animation Obsessive
2 months ago
12 seconds from 8 stop-motion films (1968–present) across the career of animator Yuri Norstein
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Baseball enjoyers 🤝 guests at Hill House
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Read A Little Poetry
4 months ago
Today’s poem is selected by Maya C. Popa (
@mayacpopa.bsky.social
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"A Pickle for the Knowing Ones" (1848) is a marvellously bizarre piece of writing. (No punctuation!) Thank you to @PublicDomainRev for sharing it:
publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...
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Trimalchio in Newburyport: Timothy Dexter’s *A Pickle for the Knowing Ones* (1848)
A strange 1797 text — in a personal eye dialect and entirely devoid of punctuation — written by the eccentric 18th-century businessman known for his wildly good luck.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNc4XZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFGTE9HMlpDUGlXSlc4MzB4AR49qst2mVpOoLba4MYuyml14yURzzvMJjMKp-Fz_rnoDPr-uS-HqCLAadVO3w_aem_khPKM8rITPfVOU6EuV7bmQ
3 months ago
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New post! Encouraging you to experiment (in writing).
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You can do whatever you want, if you can do it
(In writing, I mean.) Thinking about practical limits in creative writing; odds and ends and hits du jour
https://open.substack.com/pub/nataliemorrill1/p/you-can-do-whatever-you-want-if-you?r=150qm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
3 months ago
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💙💙💙
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3 months ago
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Hannah Posts
3 months ago
Richard Scarry: Fury Road
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I love Alan Bennett, & I love Patricia Routledge, & I love this monologue specifically, but I also admit to being baffled as to how she ended up in prison for sending too many letters
youtu.be/iOqgDmaYdqA?...
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A Lady of Letters
YouTube video by Rick Salvi
https://youtu.be/iOqgDmaYdqA?si=9-mFrdDaK1lvM6wS
3 months ago
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Vincent van Gogh
3 months ago
Three Cicadas - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14687
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Had a little frog on my front door (spring peeper) when I went out for a run this evening. He briefly hopped inside but I shoo'd him out again. No frogs in the house, please.
3 months ago
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Every time I do this to Gus, this Onion headline rebukes me
3 months ago
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I don't think the cabbage gets enough respect.
3 months ago
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The concept of this image came up in a conversation awhile ago, so I made it during my flight
3 months ago
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Imagining how sticky her desk must have been after she painted this
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A student of mine was worried that a potential publisher might not like the fact that they, as a former marketing student, had come up with a marketing plan for their book—"Would they insist on handling that themselves?" & this was one time where I got to go, "Buddy, I have great news for you."
3 months ago
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Truly... shall we say... eclectic set of interests here
3 months ago
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁
3 months ago
Events in Ottawa to mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
#Ottawa
#TruthandReconciliation
#Canada
#September30
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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Events in Ottawa to mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at some of the events in Ottawa to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/events-in-ottawa-to-mark-national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation/
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So lovely to join Liisa Kovala on her podcast! (Ed: I mention in this conversation that my agent has sent a manuscript to my publisher... False alarm! She is holding it off till November.) Listen here:
open.substack.com/pub/liisakov...
3 months ago
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"... paint the portrait or the porch. Try again after the miscarriage; love the children whose hands you wash and the children whose hands you never got to. Get the puppy. Live. Live. Live." Very beautiful short essay:
www.plough.com/en/topics/li...
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Six Kids and Six Pets
A chaotic puppy taught me to embrace the beautiful messiness of life.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/six-kids-and-six-pets
3 months ago
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www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...
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4 months ago
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Philosophy friends, can you please help me figure out who are the main thinkers I should be looking at for [maybe mid-]19th-century ideas of what can be known 🙏
4 months ago
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