cathyburrellauthor.bsky.social
@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 ⭐️💛🤗
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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In my Crystal Advent Calendar this morning, I got a piece of raw Citrine! It a stone of joy and good vibes! It also cleanses negativity and brings happiness. #Crystal ##Advent #citrine
December 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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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
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#StreetArt & #Rihanna by #njo972 in #Paris 20th 2024
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
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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.
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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
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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
December 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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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
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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
December 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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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.
December 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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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
December 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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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.
December 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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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
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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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
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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.
December 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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
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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/...
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
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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 🍜🍽️🍰
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Lilies In The Night Rain
#photography
#art
#flowers
December 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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♫ CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON ♫
December 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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‘Birch,’ ‘Unplowed’ & ‘Winter Light.’ #Painting by Magnus Petersson #art
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
December 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM