@cathyburrellauthor.bsky.social
Author-“Why Are You So-“ available through Friesenpress.com I write about my family. Canadian-Ukrainian. I’ve lived in 3 Provinces and 1 Territory. 🇨🇦www.cathyburrell.com
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It’s been an incredible year! I signed books from Victoria2Winnipeg&ended in Abbotsford🇨🇦 my memoir ‘Why Are You So-‘ is available in Libraries&bookstores from Coast To Coast to Coast🇨🇦 In the US and in the UK.If you have a ‘reader of stories’ in your life? Here’s mine @friesenpress.bsky.social
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Good morning gorgeous Star ⭐️
Good morning gorgeous Bluesky Stars ⭐️
I hope everyone is doing well ❤️
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
- Pablo Picasso
Take care of yourself and each other ✨🌹
Have a day that’s perfect for you ⭐️💛🤗
Good morning gorgeous Bluesky Stars ⭐️
I hope everyone is doing well ❤️
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
- Pablo Picasso
Take care of yourself and each other ✨🌹
Have a day that’s perfect for you ⭐️💛🤗
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Good morning gorgeous Star ⭐️
Good morning gorgeous Bluesky Stars ⭐️
I hope everyone is doing well ❤️
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
- Pablo Picasso
Take care of yourself and each other ✨🌹
Have a day that’s perfect for you ⭐️💛🤗
Good morning gorgeous Bluesky Stars ⭐️
I hope everyone is doing well ❤️
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
- Pablo Picasso
Take care of yourself and each other ✨🌹
Have a day that’s perfect for you ⭐️💛🤗
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Clustered. #mushrooms #fungi #mycology #naturelovers #forestfloor #macroshot #woodland #mushroomhunting #shroomatnoon #fungus #naturetextures #autumnvibes #decay #smartphonephotography #photography
December 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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I find myself resenting the colloquialism of "has the flu" meaning generically sick. I have Influenza Variant A, thank you very much. My icky illness has PEDIGREE
December 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I find myself resenting the colloquialism of "has the flu" meaning generically sick. I have Influenza Variant A, thank you very much. My icky illness has PEDIGREE
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December 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Knitting is too big for regular needles. So, OH made me these extra long ones yesterday afternoon 🧶😊
December 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Knitting is too big for regular needles. So, OH made me these extra long ones yesterday afternoon 🧶😊
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“I am glad you have an hour for books, those enthralling friends, the immortalities … ”
~ Emily Dickinson, letter to Maria Whitney (1883)
#Painting by Sarah Spencer.
~ Emily Dickinson, letter to Maria Whitney (1883)
#Painting by Sarah Spencer.
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“I am glad you have an hour for books, those enthralling friends, the immortalities … ”
~ Emily Dickinson, letter to Maria Whitney (1883)
#Painting by Sarah Spencer.
~ Emily Dickinson, letter to Maria Whitney (1883)
#Painting by Sarah Spencer.
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One a day for 2025 #vambo365 344/365 … Perfect rainbow - with a faint double - over Soldiers Field, Roundhay Park, Leeds #rainbow #roundhaypark #roundhay #leeds #soldiersfield
December 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
One a day for 2025 #vambo365 344/365 … Perfect rainbow - with a faint double - over Soldiers Field, Roundhay Park, Leeds #rainbow #roundhaypark #roundhay #leeds #soldiersfield
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#ArtAdventCalendar
Day 10
Sharing my art from this year.
A postcard-sized abstract landscape called Distant Glimmer.
It's painted in acrylics, and oil paint, with some collage elements thrown in.
#visualart #artists #paintedbyhumans #noAI #oilpainting #smalllandscapes #smallworks #art #table
Day 10
Sharing my art from this year.
A postcard-sized abstract landscape called Distant Glimmer.
It's painted in acrylics, and oil paint, with some collage elements thrown in.
#visualart #artists #paintedbyhumans #noAI #oilpainting #smalllandscapes #smallworks #art #table
December 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar
Day 10
Sharing my art from this year.
A postcard-sized abstract landscape called Distant Glimmer.
It's painted in acrylics, and oil paint, with some collage elements thrown in.
#visualart #artists #paintedbyhumans #noAI #oilpainting #smalllandscapes #smallworks #art #table
Day 10
Sharing my art from this year.
A postcard-sized abstract landscape called Distant Glimmer.
It's painted in acrylics, and oil paint, with some collage elements thrown in.
#visualart #artists #paintedbyhumans #noAI #oilpainting #smalllandscapes #smallworks #art #table
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....the eternal struggle between needing to get things done, but also needing to not disturb the cat currently napping on your legs.
December 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
....the eternal struggle between needing to get things done, but also needing to not disturb the cat currently napping on your legs.
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Another photo of the newborn Orca in Washington State.
Look for the pinkish color of the small one right in the center of the image.
📸Hongming Zhen
Look for the pinkish color of the small one right in the center of the image.
📸Hongming Zhen
December 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Another photo of the newborn Orca in Washington State.
Look for the pinkish color of the small one right in the center of the image.
📸Hongming Zhen
Look for the pinkish color of the small one right in the center of the image.
📸Hongming Zhen
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For the love of God
DO NOT Give pets as Xmas gifts.
Too many of these “gifts” end up at the shelter .
A Dog/Cat is a gift we give ourselves and they come with many
sacrifices.
Time,money, and a certain amount of collateral damage in their puppyhood.
DO NOT Give pets as Xmas gifts.
Too many of these “gifts” end up at the shelter .
A Dog/Cat is a gift we give ourselves and they come with many
sacrifices.
Time,money, and a certain amount of collateral damage in their puppyhood.
December 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
For the love of God
DO NOT Give pets as Xmas gifts.
Too many of these “gifts” end up at the shelter .
A Dog/Cat is a gift we give ourselves and they come with many
sacrifices.
Time,money, and a certain amount of collateral damage in their puppyhood.
DO NOT Give pets as Xmas gifts.
Too many of these “gifts” end up at the shelter .
A Dog/Cat is a gift we give ourselves and they come with many
sacrifices.
Time,money, and a certain amount of collateral damage in their puppyhood.
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I waited for the moon, the drifting cloud, and the branches to line up — one of those night-photography moments that only lasts a heartbeat.
If you enjoy seeing the world through new perspectives, stick around for more.
#Photography #NightPhotography #ScottKissPhoto
If you enjoy seeing the world through new perspectives, stick around for more.
#Photography #NightPhotography #ScottKissPhoto
December 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I waited for the moon, the drifting cloud, and the branches to line up — one of those night-photography moments that only lasts a heartbeat.
If you enjoy seeing the world through new perspectives, stick around for more.
#Photography #NightPhotography #ScottKissPhoto
If you enjoy seeing the world through new perspectives, stick around for more.
#Photography #NightPhotography #ScottKissPhoto
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“There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness & soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.”
~Ida Tarbell
Image: Ida Tarbell in 1904. Public domain.
~Ida Tarbell
Image: Ida Tarbell in 1904. Public domain.
December 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness & soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.”
~Ida Tarbell
Image: Ida Tarbell in 1904. Public domain.
~Ida Tarbell
Image: Ida Tarbell in 1904. Public domain.
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Our Christmas Lights colorway has been restocked! This yarn will micro stripe between red and white with lovely festive speckles. It’s consistently one of our best selling colorways.
hartfordyarnworksllc.etsy.com
#yarn #fiberart #ChristmasCrafts #Knitting #Crochet
hartfordyarnworksllc.etsy.com
#yarn #fiberart #ChristmasCrafts #Knitting #Crochet
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Our Christmas Lights colorway has been restocked! This yarn will micro stripe between red and white with lovely festive speckles. It’s consistently one of our best selling colorways.
hartfordyarnworksllc.etsy.com
#yarn #fiberart #ChristmasCrafts #Knitting #Crochet
hartfordyarnworksllc.etsy.com
#yarn #fiberart #ChristmasCrafts #Knitting #Crochet
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Chicago is where Michelle was raised, where I got my start as an organizer, and where we built a family together. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next June, it will be our way to give back to a city that has given us so much. obama.org/presidential-center
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Chicago is where Michelle was raised, where I got my start as an organizer, and where we built a family together. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next June, it will be our way to give back to a city that has given us so much. obama.org/presidential-center
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Greetings from Kyiv,
where I’m having a warcoffee
and getting ready to edit photos for the Sunday Letter and more.
It’s surprisingly warm outside,
a little rain earlier.
Calm.
where I’m having a warcoffee
and getting ready to edit photos for the Sunday Letter and more.
It’s surprisingly warm outside,
a little rain earlier.
Calm.
December 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Greetings from Kyiv,
where I’m having a warcoffee
and getting ready to edit photos for the Sunday Letter and more.
It’s surprisingly warm outside,
a little rain earlier.
Calm.
where I’m having a warcoffee
and getting ready to edit photos for the Sunday Letter and more.
It’s surprisingly warm outside,
a little rain earlier.
Calm.
It was difficult getting into this book as my brain is more familiar with arts than sciences. However it was worth it. Our forests have been mismanaged for years&vital networks among plants/trees have been disrupted. It’s a story as old as time. Can an industry be created by manipulating nature? 🇨🇦
December 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It was difficult getting into this book as my brain is more familiar with arts than sciences. However it was worth it. Our forests have been mismanaged for years&vital networks among plants/trees have been disrupted. It’s a story as old as time. Can an industry be created by manipulating nature? 🇨🇦
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National Defence invests $120M to clean up northern #Ontario site contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’
The PFAS family of chemicals linked to liver and prostate cancer and other health issues
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The PFAS family of chemicals linked to liver and prostate cancer and other health issues
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
National Defence invests $120M to clean up northern Ontario site contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’ | CBC News
The Department of National Defence is investing $120 million to clean up and remediate a site at the Jack Garland Airport in North Bay, Ont., that was contaminated with “forever chemicals” for decades...
www.cbc.ca
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
National Defence invests $120M to clean up northern #Ontario site contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’
The PFAS family of chemicals linked to liver and prostate cancer and other health issues
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The PFAS family of chemicals linked to liver and prostate cancer and other health issues
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Baking for the school Christmas fair...
Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, gingerbread sandwich cookies and millionaires shortbread with dark & white chocolate tree
#hobbybaker #homemade #cakesky #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️🍰
Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, gingerbread sandwich cookies and millionaires shortbread with dark & white chocolate tree
#hobbybaker #homemade #cakesky #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️🍰
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Baking for the school Christmas fair...
Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, gingerbread sandwich cookies and millionaires shortbread with dark & white chocolate tree
#hobbybaker #homemade #cakesky #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️🍰
Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, gingerbread sandwich cookies and millionaires shortbread with dark & white chocolate tree
#hobbybaker #homemade #cakesky #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️🍰
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December 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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♫ CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON ♫
December 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
♫ CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON ♫
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December 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Sunset last night across the field in Minnesota❄️
#Photography
#Photographers
#BlueSkyArt
#EastCoastKin
#Winter
#Nature
#Minnesota
#Photography
#Photographers
#BlueSkyArt
#EastCoastKin
#Winter
#Nature
#Minnesota
December 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Sunset last night across the field in Minnesota❄️
#Photography
#Photographers
#BlueSkyArt
#EastCoastKin
#Winter
#Nature
#Minnesota
#Photography
#Photographers
#BlueSkyArt
#EastCoastKin
#Winter
#Nature
#Minnesota
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb