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redux: “five suns from a flying heaven”: Thanksgivings 1991 and 2020

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 1d

"Wading across the rising creek, I suddenly spotted an unusually large shell on the bottom, partly obscured by eelgrass. Curious, I lifted it out and put it in my bucket among the frilly oysters..."

Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 2d

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Alt text: two striped winter squash and an oyster shell on a chipped yellow plate, a flowered jug holding pink flowers alongside

Note: I posted this five years ago, remembering a Thanksgiving weekend nearly 30 years before that. Yesterday as I shopped for groceries, I realized that another Thanksgiving has come around. We we…

redux: “five suns from a flying heaven”: Thanksgivings 1991 and 2020

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 2d

theresakishkan.com/2025/10/10/r...

Alt text: two striped winter squash and an oyster shell on a chipped yellow plate, a flowered jug holding pink flowers alongside

Note: I posted this five years ago, remembering a Thanksgiving weekend nearly 30 years before that. Yesterday as I shopped for groceries, I realized that another Thanksgiving has come around. We we…

redux: “five suns from a flying heaven”: Thanksgivings 1991 and 2020

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 2d

theresakishkan.com/2025/10/10/r...

Alt text: two striped winter squash and an oyster shell on a chipped yellow plate, a flowered jug holding pink flowers alongside

Note: I posted this five years ago, remembering a Thanksgiving weekend nearly 30 years before that. Yesterday as I shopped for groceries, I realized that another Thanksgiving has come around. We we…

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 2d

Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize | CBC News

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, it was announced Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 2d

Hope it goes well, Tom.

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 4d

"Once my brothers buried me in the sand hoardings under the building–I imagined that it was dust from the stones themselves but learned later that it was sand used to make cement for installations — and how I had to lie there for hours until they remembered me and dug me out."

Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 4d

theresakishkan.com/2025/10/07/w...
Alt text: young buck lying on green grass among graves

When I was a child living near the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, I never saw deer lying on the graves. Never saw peacocks, or peahens, away from the lawns of Beacon Hill Park. Later, when my famil…

Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 4d

"Once my brothers buried me in the sand hoardings under the building–I imagined that it was dust from the stones themselves but learned later that it was sand used to make cement for installations — and how I had to lie there for hours until they remembered me and dug me out."

Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 4d

theresakishkan.com/2025/10/07/w...
Alt text: young buck lying on green grass among graves

When I was a child living near the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, I never saw deer lying on the graves. Never saw peacocks, or peahens, away from the lawns of Beacon Hill Park. Later, when my famil…

Reposted by Theresa Kishkan

Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 4d

theresakishkan.com/2025/10/07/w...
Alt text: young buck lying on green grass among graves

When I was a child living near the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, I never saw deer lying on the graves. Never saw peacocks, or peahens, away from the lawns of Beacon Hill Park. Later, when my famil…

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 4d

theresakishkan.com/2025/10/07/w...
Alt text: young buck lying on green grass among graves

When I was a child living near the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, I never saw deer lying on the graves. Never saw peacocks, or peahens, away from the lawns of Beacon Hill Park. Later, when my famil…

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Reposted by Theresa Kishkan

Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 5d

People need to read more novellas, and they should start with the ones by @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social and @fishgottaswim.bsky.social, and honestly time is only the tiniest of the reasons why.

Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 5d

Compare this with a more oral/aural/literary mode of story-telling, where it's actually *less* common to slow down and do a beat-by-beat script-style screen description (which can be startling, used sparingly), where fiddling with the chronology and pace is natural: seconds to years in a paragraph.

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 6d

"Would the driver of the dark blue Maserati please return to the car deck. Your alarm is sounding."

Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 6d

So painterly!

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 7d

postcard, watching the sky get light

2 mornings in a row, walking on Ogden Point breakwater, I watched a seal swimming, and recognized something of myself in its slow passage through cold water.