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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her

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Poet/Writer. Proud mom and grandma to both humans and pets. Disabled. Recovering politician. Chocolate lover. Human rights friendly. Coeditor at @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social. MicheleRule.ca for more.

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Feb 28

Listen to my award winning poem, Falling in Love with Life Again #poetry #womenpoets #canadianpoetry #winecountrywritersfestival #weesparrowpress

Poetry Readings On The Theme of Love - Michele Rule

Just to round off the month of love, a poetry reading I took part in is now up on Spotify!

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The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social · 6d

Issue 60 is out! Haiku full of moose and beavers - we love it! Enjoy!

Issue 60 – Moose & Beaver 🫎🦫 - The Solitary Daisy

Last weekend Sally and I attended the Wine Country Writers Festival in Penticton, BC.

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · 16d

Time to order Beyond Blue, an anthology edited by @christinamyers.bsky.social and Olga Nwobosi! I have the story of my postpartum depression in it! Published by @caitlinpress.bsky.social #canadianpress #postpartumdepression

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The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social · 16d

Phew! Doing our best here to catch up! Enjoy this hilarious issue of the Solitary Daisy! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/09/issu...

Issue 59 – Funny Senryu - The Solitary Daisy

I love these cooler days and even cooler nights, when all the tourists have gone home and the beaches are empty.

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The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social · Sep 6

Finally, here is our Newcomers issue with a shortened version of material because Sally and I are both still recuperating from our big adventures! Enjoy!

Issue 58 – Newcomer Haiku - The Solitary Daisy

Haiku sounds like I’m Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thanks to Haiku Girl Summer for including this little #haiku today!

Black text on a white background
garlic scapes
the stew rises above
its ordinary roots
Michele Rule
Kelowna BC Canada
www.michelerule.ca

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Aug 19

Pharmacare shouldn't depend on your postal code nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...

New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Aug 8

Awww! So cute!

Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Aug 8

Happy International Cat Day from Stanley and me! #blackcat

A black cat with a white bib, green eyes and long white whiskers looks into the camera. He is loaf-sitting on an orange and brown blanket. In the background is a blurred electric fireplace and wooden shelves.

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Aug 5

Well, when I did the alt text I honestly thought he was quite a bit older than me lol. But my mom was asking today and we looked it up and he is only two years older than me!!

Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Aug 5

It's great to live in a country where you can meet the prime minister and take a selfie together 😊🇨🇦

An older man with a dark blue suit and a grey tie stands beside a middle-aged woman with long hair in a ponytail and light pink glasses wearing a checked beige and white vest. Behind them is a vineyard, and large lake and some low mountains.

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Aug 5

Awesome photo! And love your dress 😊

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 3

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit

Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Aug 3

Furry friends are the best. My little pup keeps me calm when my anxiety kicks in.

A small brown dog with big ears is cuddled into a black and white blanket in the basket of my mobility scooter which is out of sight.

Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Aug 3

Have a little fun with Leapfrog, first published in @litsharkmag.bsky.social 🐸 #poetry #canadianpoets #womenpoets

Leapfrog - Michele Rule

The trail to the pond was beckoning wave of willow branches chirp of grasshoppers

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thrilled to have one of my haiku appear in @teatimehaiku.bsky.social 's Haiku Girl Summer! Thanks to guest editor Jessica Allyson! #haiku

White page with black text.
Text reads
wildfire
might as well give up
smoking
Michele Rule
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
www.michelerule.ca

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Jul 28

Nonviolent climate activist Zain Haq was deported from Canada on January 26, 2025. Immigration Minister Lena Metledge Diab still has the power to #BringZainHome. Send him a letter today: www.dogwoodbc.ca/petitions/br...

Bring Zain home - Dogwood

Nonviolent climate activist Zain Haq was deported from Canada on January 26, 2025. Immigration Minister Lena Metledge Diab still has the power to #BringZainHome. Send him a letter today.

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Jul 28

Had fun with this sketch by Josiah! #completethehaiga @completethehaiga.bsky.social #haiga

A black and white image. What looks like a ragged piece of snake skin from larger head end down to very narrow tail end.
Text reads
snakeskin
for once the rattle
lies silent
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Artist signature read Josiah

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AccessBC @accessbc.bsky.social · Jun 28

In preparation for the launch of our new campaign for pain management for IUD insertions we are asking for stories! If you have a story about an IUD experience that you would like to share, go to our website www.accessbc.org and click the ‘Share Your Story’ link at the bottom of the pages.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social · Jul 26

Happy Saturday from the male Spicebush Swallowtail.

#Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋 #SwallowtailSeason

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Jul 25

I just joined the global call to #DrawTheLine — for peace, climate justice, and a world beyond fossil fuels. Be part of the actions this September: drawtheline.world?utm_source=b...

Home | Draw The Line - For life, for people, for the planet.

Join us this September to draw the line against injustice, pollution, and violence; for a future of peace, clean energy, and fairness.

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Jul 25

So pleased to have a haiku on the theme of "books" in the latest issue of the Haiku Canada BC Yukon newsletter! #haiku #haikucanada

A plain white sheet with a pressed pink flower in the bottom right hand of the page.
Text from the top reads:
haiku challenge/défi haiku (books/livres)
July/Juliet 2025 no. 10

first date -
we tell each other
our favourite books
Michael Dylan Welch
Sammamish (WA)

clearing bookshelves
last year's roses pressed
in romance novels
Michele Rule
Kelowna (BC)

heirloom dictionary
a language we share
... pressed flowers
Karin Hedetniemi
Victoria (BC)

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Jul 23

Congratulations! I love the cover!

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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social · Jul 21

I'm so excited to have a story in this upcoming anthology!

Caitlin Press/Dagger Editions @caitlinpress.bsky.social · Jul 21

Edited by Oga Nwobosi and @christinamyers.bsky.social, Beyond Blue is a collection of deeply personal essays, in which mothers from all walks of life share their experiences with postpartum depression. Now available from Caitlin Press and everywhere books are sold: caitlinpress.com/Books/B/Beyo...

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The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social · Jul 12

Festivals and Celebrations in this new issue of the Solitary Daisy! thesolitarydaisy.ca/2025/07/issu... #haiku #haikujournal #haikusubmissions

Issue 56 – Festivals And Celebrations - The Solitary Daisy

Summer doesn’t know if it is coming or going here, with days over 35C then switching out to 23C in the blink of an eye.

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isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · Jul 6

What are you doing on July 9? Come and join @michelerule.bsky.social, @authorthomasmayhew.bsky.social and me for a conversation about #mentalhealth and substance use. I'll be reading from my book "Believe Me", the chapter on depression and suicidal ideation.

#psychsky
#recoveryposse
#addiction

isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · Jul 3

Join @authorthomasmayhew.bsky.social, @michelerule.bsky.social and me next week as we share with you our writings on #mentalhealth topics.

Author T.Mayhew The Last Battle: Becoming Someone Else(Querying) @authorthomasmayhew.bsky.social · Jun 27

Join us as we read our own writings on mental health July 9th at 8:30PM EST, click the link below to join us in our pursuit of mental health enlightenment, practical wisdom and hope - The Transformation Blueprint @michelerule.bsky.social @moritherapy.bsky.social
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