As I’m learning how to do Tibetan colour meditation, I’m finding poetry about colours to be ever more intriguing.
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As I’m learning how to do Tibetan colour meditation, I’m finding poetry about colours to be ever more intriguing.
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Brilliant son being brilliant again. @zachariahcw.bsky.social #proudmama
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Right on!
“Feel up” sounds so harmless and quaint – and should be retired. Grandpa’s trying to sexually assault women.
A person stands on a rocky hilltop facing away from the camera, wearing a blue jacket, jeans, and a backpack. They hold a hat in one hand. In front of them is a wide view of rolling Scottish mountains under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. A few old weathered fence posts and stones are visible in the foreground.
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I want to pick up another part of the ‘nature cure’ problem
When a woman writes about the outdoors, people often reach for the same narrative template.
#Scotland #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Books #NatureWriting #Nature
Wow. I’m in Ontario and it’s much cheaper in my local grocery stores.
The library loves you
He did so much good for so many.
Are you working on creative writing about the environment? Or studying people that do? Then the 2025 ALECC conference in Edmonton might be right up your cul-de-sac!
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Photo of the expiration date, lot #, & mini QR code of the back of the Novavax syringe.
🚨🚨🚨🧵 by @Biff234523 w/ photos of ALL of the available Covid vaccines for fall 2025 (including Novavax of course).
Full thread & images of Pfizer & Moderna:
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Promotional graphic for the memoir Drystone – A Life Rebuilt by Kristie De Garis. The image features multiple quotes praising the book, arranged in a grid over a mustard yellow background. The book cover, which shows abstractly stacked stones with the title overlaid, appears in the centre and twice more alongside quotes. Top quote: “An incredibly powerful debut . . . reflects not only life’s hardest moments, but its tender, deeply human ones too. A life-affirming work” — Rebecca Smith, author of Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Middle left: “Honest, funny, direct and moving” — Books from Scotland Middle right: “Beautifully rendered” — Julie Vuong, The Bookseller Bottom: “Drystone doesn’t pull any punches, it’s shockingly frank but also has the most beautiful literary touch” — Tracey King, author of memoir Learning to Think
Lots of you have been asking how to order my book Drystone - A Life rebuilt outside of the UK.
As we approach the official launch date (tomorrow!) I'm hearing it's already pretty widely available internationally. Now's the time!
#Books #Book #Writing #WritingCommunity #Scotland
It's time to reveal the Honourable Mention in our 2025 Poem of the Year Contest. Cassandra Eliodor is taking home the $500 prize for her poem "Hermeneutics," which you can revisit on our website today along with an Editor's Choice blurb by nina jane drystek: buff.ly/pQwJxme
Black and white photo of a woman sitting on a drystone wall in the hills, eyes closed and smiling gently. She wears a dark jumper and jeans, with wild grass and rough stone all around. The light is soft, and the mood is peaceful and quietly powerful. Photo by Christie Hemm Klok
My book Drystone – A Life Rebuilt is out in just 3 weeks. I’ve poured everything into writing it and getting it out into the world as far as I can.
I’d love your help. A share, a preorder, a message to someone who might love it, it all makes a difference.
Info and links below.
#Scotland #Books
Wisława Szymborska
It’s Wisława’s birthday tomorrow.
From ‘The End and the Beginning’:
“Those who knew
what was going on here
must make way for
those who know little.
And less than little.
And finally as little as nothing.”
A childhood dream come true! My drystone worked featured in the July/August issue of world-renowned Smithsonian Magazine.
I was so proud to show my daughters this article. Click through for link to the online post.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/my-dryston...
#Scotland #Writing #Culture #History
A stack of five books on a white shelf, partially surrounded by trailing green leaves. Titles include Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard, Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho, The Rise of Wolf 8 by Rick McIntyre, The Next Economy MBA, and Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez. A colorful bookshelf is blurred in the background.
Five books arranged vertically on a wooden floor. Titles include Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino, The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice, Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Three books leaning against a light grey couch cushion. Titles include Value(s) by Mark Carney, Nasty Women Poets, an anthology by Grace Bauer and Julie Kane, and a clothbound edition of 1984 by George Orwell.
Three books stacked on a green cutting mat in front of a pastel mechanical keyboard. Titles include Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff, Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley, and 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann.
Being online is cool. So is logging off to read some books.
Here’s what some of us at Gander are reading this weekend: data gaps in everyday life, smart forests, radical queer history, the future of the internet, and the enduring appeal of fancy vampires.
Fantastic
I’m a mixed-race neurodivergent woman, so I would love women like me to read it, says Kristie De Garis ( @kristiedegaris.bsky.social ) on her memoir. Drystone will be published in August 2025.
Read the interview here 👇 #BookSky
Blurred image of a labyrinth carved into a rock in Galicia around 4,000 years ago. Text overlay reads: "For countless individuals who have walked the labyrinth through history, the path has offered itself with gentle simplicity." Dru Jaeger, Walking the labyrinth at pilgrimagic.substack.com
Walking the labyrinth is a practice that's thousands of years old, and it's more relevant today than ever.
For World Labyrinth Day, here are the lessons the labyrinth has taught me: pilgrimagic.substack.com/p/walking-the-labyrinth
#labyrinths #druidsky #pagansky #witchsky #walking /|\
Gorgeous. What birds did you hear? I had Merlin around dawn today… just robins and more robins.
Time to Draw
There are so many name-of-donut posts in my feed right now that it's starting to feel like a secret code. Here goes...
Apple fritter. (What did I really say???)
Are Canadian rights available for Drystone? (Feel free to DM me if you like.)
Really looking forward to reading Drystone! The Waterstones link you shared is giving "this doesn't exist" but this one's active: www.waterstones.com/book/dryston...
The refrozen surface of an ice fishing hole looking like the night sky with star-like crystals against a round dark background.
Lake Nipissing ice hut fishing hole healing itself on a gorgeous -25c morning.
"Sugarcane" is up for an Academy Award, and has already made history: It's the first time an Indigenous director from North America has been nominated for an Oscar.
Take care and feel better soon!