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🇨🇦 Gerrit

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On Hiatus To Do Analog Things. "We are all just walking each other home." Ram Das Focus: #wisdom #climate #beauty #Canada. Me: 👨🏻‍🦳🇨🇦🇿🇦🪖♿️🏺🥗 [Ally: 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🖤🤎🌍] Dad & FIL of 🏳️‍🌈 & 🏳️‍⚧️

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🇨🇦 Gerrit @gerritb.bsky.social · 7d

Today, I will remember
the advice of Epictetus:
“Seek not good from without.
Seek it within yourselves,
or you will never find it.”

Quote source: Discourses, Book III, chapter 25.
Photo: two wrinkle work hands hold the top of a cane.
Source: Sharada Prasad Flickr

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🇨🇦 Gerrit @gerritb.bsky.social · 5d

Not yet, but she keeps threatening to. 😁 Our other daughter goes to Mexico often and has picked up a bit of conversational Spanish. Their French would help to learn it.

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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 6d

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pen digs in the gray 32

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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 6d

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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 6d

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mouse gray and white strokes 8

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 6d

Star trails, clouds, and some feint northern lights over Colpoy's Bay, Ontario at #night for the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNights.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #longexposure #clouds

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DaveN 🇨🇦 @davenlsn.bsky.social · 6d

Jasper, Lytton, Los Angeles, Fort McMurray — the last few years have been filled with unprecedented fire disasters, taking lives and destroying communities and economies

Wildfires are growing all across the world and becoming much more common because of climate change

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

What insurance data reveals about how bad wildfires are getting | CBC News

Scientists tapped into 44 years of data to show how these societally destructive wildfires — ones that kill people and cause huge financial losses — are growing all across the world and are becoming m...

www.cbc.ca

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 6d

Rocks on the Colpoy's Bay, Ontario shoreline for #ColourADay #BWFri

#ColorADay #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 6d

‘An unearthly time,’ ‘Light’ & ‘Light Hoarder.’ #Painting by Helen Glassford #art #Scotland

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STD72 abstract colors art @std72art.bsky.social · 8d

#abstract #art #colors #abstraction #painting #noAL (c)stdrozdowski72

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STD72 abstract colors art @std72art.bsky.social · 6d

#abstraction #nature #flowers #colors #painting #art #garden #noAL (c)stdrozdowski72

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STD72 abstract colors art @std72art.bsky.social · 6d

#art #abstract #horror #abstraction #color #face #painting #noAL (c)stdrozdowski72

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🇨🇦 Gerrit @gerritb.bsky.social · 6d

Good morning, Jaime! Have a great day, eh. 😁

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 6d

#Photography by Rinko Kawauchi #art

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 6d

Cottage with Peasant Coming Home - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13578

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 6d

Ford is corrupt.

Millions in Skills Development Fund grants went to #Ontario PC donors, fuelling claims it’s a ‘slush fund’

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...