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Before making duck with chanterelles for our Thanksgiving dinner, I am spending time with the proofs of my forthcoming book: thornapplepress.ca/books/the-ar...
I love the page design! I love the cover! So much to be thankful for...

computer screen showing most of a page of text

a book cover featuring a detail from a portrait

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 1d

Let me register a vote in favour of the Museum's little pamphlets from the 1990s, I think, providing self-guided walking tours of the city. Did them all. Loved them.

Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much for sharing, @rwpickard.bsky.social

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Tom. It makes me a little nervous to think of this book in the world. (You'll see why when you read it!) But I'm also proud of it and I think the designers have done a beautiful job.

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 1d

Before making duck with chanterelles for our Thanksgiving dinner, I am spending time with the proofs of my forthcoming book: thornapplepress.ca/books/the-ar...
I love the page design! I love the cover! So much to be thankful for...

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 1d

Vicki, that's so beautiful.

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 1d

Let's not forget Ukraine.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘After the reading, the poets hold each other’: what happens when Ukraine’s largest literary festival comes under Russian attack

Fiona Benson was invited to Lviv’s BookForum by Ukrainian poet-soldier Artur Dron’. She recounts falling in love with the city and its thriving literary culture, before an air raid siren sounds

www.theguardian.com

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 1d

Old man shouts at the sky until his caretakers gently take him away.

Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 1d

Oh maybe! I bought powdered pigment and love the colour, esp with linen.

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 2d

Out for a Thanksgiving walk. Bird bones scoured by coyotes, bear scat, and -- chanterelles.

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for reposting, @rwpickard.bsky.social

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 2d

"I remember how it felt to gallop my horse up the long golden slopes, sometimes rousing pheasants, sometimes surprising a slumbering cow."

Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 3d

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Alt text: a grainy black and white photograph of fields, trees.

“All the cars go by all along down the ancient highway” (Van Morrison)

Last Sunday John and I walked the path around Rithets Bog in Victoria. When I was a girl in Royal Oak, in the late 1960s, early 1970s, I’d ride my horse above the bog on the fields of Broadme…

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 2d

Same.

Freehand blue sashiko stitching on coarse indigo linen

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 2d

"I remember how it felt to gallop my horse up the long golden slopes, sometimes rousing pheasants, sometimes surprising a slumbering cow."

Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 3d

theresakishkan.com/2025/10/11/a...

Alt text: a grainy black and white photograph of fields, trees.

“All the cars go by all along down the ancient highway” (Van Morrison)

Last Sunday John and I walked the path around Rithets Bog in Victoria. When I was a girl in Royal Oak, in the late 1960s, early 1970s, I’d ride my horse above the bog on the fields of Broadme…

theresakishkan.com

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 3d

theresakishkan.com/2025/10/11/a...

Alt text: a grainy black and white photograph of fields, trees.

“All the cars go by all along down the ancient highway” (Van Morrison)

Last Sunday John and I walked the path around Rithets Bog in Victoria. When I was a girl in Royal Oak, in the late 1960s, early 1970s, I’d ride my horse above the bog on the fields of Broadme…

theresakishkan.com

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 3d

theresakishkan.com/2025/10/11/a...

Alt text: a grainy black and white photograph of fields, trees.

“All the cars go by all along down the ancient highway” (Van Morrison)

Last Sunday John and I walked the path around Rithets Bog in Victoria. When I was a girl in Royal Oak, in the late 1960s, early 1970s, I’d ride my horse above the bog on the fields of Broadme…

theresakishkan.com

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 3d

I tried to grow those one year but they didn't do much. I have better luck with other brassicas. But they look so beautiful -- those logarithmic spirals...

Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 3d

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Sadiqa de Meijer, In the Field

I lost my notebook. This was, for a few days that summer, my distracted answer when people asked me how I was. ...

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for reposting, @rwpickard.bsky.social

Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 3d

Oh Steven, not how the rest of world sees it....

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 4d

"Wading across the rising creek, I suddenly spotted an unusually large shell on the bottom, partly obscured by eelgrass. Curious, I lifted it out and put it in my bucket among the frilly oysters..."

Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 4d

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Alt text: two striped winter squash and an oyster shell on a chipped yellow plate, a flowered jug holding pink flowers alongside

redux: “five suns from a flying heaven”: Thanksgivings 1991 and 2020

Note: I posted this five years ago, remembering a Thanksgiving weekend nearly 30 years before that. Yesterday as I shopped for groceries, I realized that another Thanksgiving has come around. We we…

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