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Made my mom a ribbon skirt!

I wrote a story about love shared through the generations of a family:

“What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow,' is out this Friday on Nonesuch Records! To celebrate, Justin Robinson and I are sharing a new tune from the album each day this week, along with a video captured by Alexei Mejouev at the recording.

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But the little girl's questions often lingered in Evan's mind long after she asked them, and he believed she held the wisdom of countless generations, despite her youth. Moon of the Crusted Snow ~Waubgeshig Rice #SundaySentence

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Little man is feeling the music 🎶✨ 🔊🔊 📽️danceworldkids

There is pink sadness, "the sadness of shame when you have done nothing," and blue sadness, "the sadness of reverie and nostalgia"... Poet Mary Ruefle's nuance wheel of sorrows:

A Promise of Coming Warmth Steve Driscoll 2024

Downtown Winnipeg skyline. #Winnipeg #photography #skyline

Listen to the sly setting joy and pleading, raw pleading that carries the words as this man tells the girl who lived when so many others died that she is beautiful beyond the bounds of this world. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This ~Omar El Akkad #SundaySentence

Honour Water Christi Belcourt ~ Métis 2010

Austrian painter Marianne Stokes, A Capri Witch, 1884-85 #WomensArt

searching for quotes about angels living in strange times

'Afro Art' is a series of portraits celebrating the beauty and versatility of black hair inspired by Baroque period artworks, by Kahran Bethencourt (and partner Regis) aka Creative Soul #womensart

Leonora Carrington - At the Boat - 1954

My drawing... Thank you for following! 🧡

Wawiriya Burton, senior Australian Aboriginal artist and healer who, in collaboration with her daughters, painted Mingkiri Tjukurpa, 2011 #WomensArt

When I think of this portrait of my grandparents in their last years, I always envision a beginning. ~The Gangster We Are All Looking For Lê Thi Diem Thúy #SundaySentence

Paul Klee - Ville Fiorentine -1926

Chuu Wai, contemporary artist from #Myanmar who has shown her work internationally #WomensArt

"Yes, that painting by Millet ‘The evening angelus’, ‘that’s it’. That’s rich, that’s poetry. How I’d like to talk to you about art again; […] find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful." – Vincent van Gogh (letter to brother Theo, 1874)

Beauty is not caused — It is — Chase it, and it ceases — Chase it not, and it abides. ― Emily Dickinson

Another pic of the sweet little female Black Redstart. 🪶

Last night I dreamt I found two old-fashioned manual wind-up wristwatches tucked away in a drawer, one of them a gift from my late mother.

Canada stands shoulder to shoulder with Greenland. Today's dance expresses solidarity with the resilient Greenlandic Inuit people and all other communities who form the lovely fabric of Greenland. Invaders may persist, but your resilience will prevail.

a murder of crows feathered blizzard forecasters high-wire tree top act #haiku #BlueSkyWeather

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison

A Canadian's Perspective On US Behavior Since The Trump Regime Was Installed writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/a-c... Worth sending to American friends and family.

The technician at the clinic today had a grumpy expression and few words when she took my paperwork. But the room, with its combination of Halloween and Easter decor said something different about her.

Self Portrait in Velvet Dress Frida Kahlo, 1926

The grocery store clerk at the checkout today was happy to tell me about her exuberant two-year-old Labrador and how she plans to go running with him when the snow and ice melts from the sidewalks. Learn something about people you meet in everyday encounters and they aren't strangers anymore.

Grey wolf

Next fell the stars, tinkling about him like the ornaments of heaven shaken loose. ~tinkers Paul Harding #SundaySentence

Little Sparrow #birds #photography #wildlife #naturephotography

I love starting sentences with “And”, and I do so quite frequently in my writing. And no matter what you say, you cannot convince me it’s bad writing to do so.

If you haven't already read @doubleemmartin.bsky.social 's brilliant piece on Ukraine, Hutterites and Mennonites I'd highly recommend. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews... Article below in 4 screenshots for those of you paywalled, photos in subsequent posts. (Apologies ALT text not available)

Reflection + Sky + golden hour + gorgeous mural = 😍 Giizaagiigo (you are loved) mural by Jeanie Whitebird & Charlie Johnston #winnipeg #photography #murals

GALAGOG n. the state of being simultaneously entranced and unsettled by the vastness of the cosmos, which makes your deepest concerns feel laughably quaint, yet vanishingly rare.