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Retired educator, researcher, and academic. Photographer, Gardener, Tree-Hugger, and Flâneuse. Often found in a diner. Wine with dinner. Beer with pizza.
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Happy birthday to iconic architect Frank Gehry! How many of his iconic LA buildings have you seen? Discover 10 architectural masterpieces across Southern California including libraries, museums, aquariums, concert halls, and more:

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A feral cat in New Jersey is dead after contracting the highly pathogenic avian flu, marking the first feline outbreak in the nation’s most densely populated state

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US activist Angela Davis and novelist Toni Morrison walking together in 1974, by photographer Jill Krementz #WomensArt

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Snow + Dirt = SNIRT

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Clearly, you can read a lot into trees. In some cases, they were altered for the purpose of recording information. The term “trailblazing” comes from the practice of putting “blazes” on trees—notches in the bark—to keep track of important routes.

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Trees With a Secret Message The culturally modified trees of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska bring essential stories of the past into the present. daily.jstor.org/trees-with-a...

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On this day in 1935, Alex Janvier was born. He became one of the most acclaimed painters in Canadian history and his work is found nationwide. Let's learn more about this amazing First Nations artist. 🧵1/14

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Aislin's Montreal Gazette cartoon on Canada's sad fallen hero (and disgusting Trump supporter) Wayne Gretzky

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Ontario Provincial Election: NDP keeps 3 London, Ontario / #ldnont seats London remains an island of orange in a sea of Progressive Conservative blue lfpress.com/news/ontario...

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And, never drink their wines!!

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Never meet your heroes!!

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CBC News projects a Terence Kernaghan win in London North Centre and a Peggy Sattler win in London West, keeping those ridings with the NDP. #LdnOnt #Onpoli

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"I've always told people that I wrote the song "Alison" after seeing a beautiful checkout girl at the local supermarket. She had a face for which a ship might have once been named. Scoundrels might once have fought mist-swathed duels to defend her honour.

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Good-bye health care! Good-bye education!!

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Polls in Ontario election are now closed. Let’s hope Ontario voters made good choices!

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Two for two for Timmy’s Coffee

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Words that make me happy: “Planet Parade”

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1/2 hour until Ontario polls close! Ya still have time to VOTE! Go…now…hurry!

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Just No! No No No Stop it! Do not do this silly ridiculous half-tuck. We are laughing at you.

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Hope and Melting!!

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Election Day in Ontario. Let’s do this!!

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Photographer Ilse Bing, Champs Elysees (chairs in the rain), Paris, 1931 #womensart

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My Dolls? New York.

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Hey, I read this book, There’s Something in The Water, and I recommend you read it also. In the meantime, read this article/interview!

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Here’s a closer look at how each of these influential women used literature to challenge societal norms and paved the way for Black feminism today. ⤵️

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For her performance of "Strange Fruit" a song about lynching African American people, she would silence the crowd, a spotlight on her face. On the final note, all lights went out and she was gone.... Singer Billie Holiday,1947 #WomensArt (Image by D.Hagerman)

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Lawren Harris was such a great and accurate chronicler of Toronto’s built environment. I’m going to take a wild guess but I think this is around Moss Park/Shuter Street. #CanadianArt

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The energy I bring to blue sky…

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For the next couple of weeks, artists are lighting up some of our downtown public spaces. This is Pulse by artist Matthew Jones. Part of the Downtown Yonge BIA’s Illuminite Festival.

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“To use a technical term, it blew my mind,” said Vancouver’s former chief planner Brent Toderian…”They weren’t lazy about it—they didn’t just throw up barriers and ban cars. It might be the best bargain I’ve ever heard,” Toderian said. #Montreal

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Forgot to yell about this when I first saw it but I'm yelling about it now... BUNHEADS IS BACK ON HULU LET US REJOICE

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Legendary ceramicist Edith Heath on creativity, serendipity, and the antidote to obsolescence

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"But she didn't score her first hit until she was in her 30s - when her recording of Ewan MacColl's The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face was used to soundtrack an explicit love scene in Clint Eastwood's 1971 film Play Misty For Me." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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This is the song that makes me cry!! 💔 Roberta Flack - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (1972) 🎵 The first time, ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and the stars Were the gifts you gave To the dark, and the endless sky www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_f...

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💔 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song (Official Video) 🎵 Strumming my pain with his fingers Singing my life with his words Killing me softly with his song Killing me softly with his song Telling my whole life with his words Killing me softly with his song www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrud...

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Evening coat, by designer Elsa Schiaparelli in collaboration with Jean Cocteau, 1937 #WomensArt

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Robin Wall Kimmerer, the bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, recently published The Serviceberry, which explores the economies of nature. The Indigenous ecologist discusses reciprocity, gratitude, and aligning human law with ecological law. e360.yale.edu/features/rob...

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‘Never Be a Victim.’ A Conversation With Diane von Furstenberg Four years after handing operations to a Chinese company, the designer is reclaiming her brand and courting her fifth generation of customers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Toronto Maple Leafs WIN!!

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The resistance hero Sophie Scholl was killed by the Nazis on this day in 1943. She was 21. Her immortal and deeply precocious wisdom on suffering, strength, and the deepest wellspring of courage:

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A Winnipeg Street, Snowbound W.J. Phillips 1927

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Words I Love: "Bossa Nova"

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Scotland's first free public transport trial to begin – here's how it works Source: The National Scot search.app/aeuD

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“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?” -Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), US author, anthropologist, filmmaker #WomensArt

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Study for America Greg Curnoe 1989-1990

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Voletta Wallace, who maintained her son Notorious B.I.G.’s memory after his 1997 killing, has died. She was 78.

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