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Karin Hedetniemi

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Writer, wanderer. Finding quiet beauty in life✨Creative nonfiction, photography, poetry and haiku • Just being human here. agoldenhour.com

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · Nov 8

Hi friends. I’ve got a quiet corner I’ll slowly fill with Vancouver Island beauty, creative work, home life, travel dispatches, and a bit of levity. ☺️

#writing #lifewriting #streetphotos #enjoytheride

Sunrise at the pebble and driftwood beach of Ross Bay, Victoria, British Columbia. A chalk message on the concrete ballustrade reminds all of us to “Enjoy the ride.”

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 2d

Awww. 🥹 This made me feel emotional and hopeful. Thank you, Sue. ❤️

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 2d

Spent time with my Mom on her 86th birthday. Cheered the World Series game with my brother. Felt grateful for autumn leaves, for life in this moment. Opened my grieving heart and offered to adopt a dog in need….waiting to hear if the Universe says yes.

A cheery bouquet of mixed flowers and greenery in a small galvanized pail.

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 6d

A warm hour of storytelling! Still thinking about the pieces shared. So proud to be part of this heart-full literary journal! 💜

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 6d

We just spent the most wonderful morning listening to some of our contributors read their work. What an honor to publish these fabulous writers who are also such lovely people! Much love and thank you to everyone who spent time with us today! 🥹💜💜🙏

a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a door that has a sign on it that says meeting in progress

ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a door that has a sign on it that says meeting in progress

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 10d

What a sweet memory to hold for me, thank you Jenny. 🩵🩵🩵 There will be another pup in my future to love. Somehow she’ll find me.

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 10d

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 10d

I will enjoy each and every one! 🩵✨

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 10d

“Making money is, on its own terms, totally meaningless, an insufficient pursuit for the complex and decaying world we live in…

“Scientists, naturalists, essayists, and poets are offering us a vision, a means with which to see and understand the splendor and sacredness of life.”

— Paul Hawken

A tortoiseshell butterfly rests on autumn foliage. Photo taken in Mount Robson Provincial Park, Canada, by Karin Hedetniemi (Sep 13, 2022).

Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 10d

In honour of my sweet pup in the beyond…I’m finding my way back to the sea. I will keep a whimsy thread here. ✨🌊 This is today’s flotsam.

A brown, Irish made Mucros wax cap, washed ashore by the Salish Sea.

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 12d

The best. 🩵🩵

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 12d

This is Iliamna. She made a new best friend, who happens to be a balloon. Really thought they would have more time together. 12/10 (TT: andreal.corbin)

Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 13d

The sweet little painting I saw at a market, on my last day in France, that now hangs in my heart.

A small, antique oil painting of a spray of flowers, in an ornate gold frame, casually displayed on a market table with other random collectibles.

Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 13d

Your short films are so poignant and visually enchanting. I love this! Here for all the episodes! 💖🏴‍☠️

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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 17d

✨ The first episode has arrived! ✨

Very excited to introduce the first episode in my new flash fiction film series ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’! 🕰️

If you have a minute and a half to spare, I’d love for you to check it out!

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The Time Pirate | Episode 1: The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore

YouTube video by jenwithwords

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 15d

New poem in Cream City Review alongside the work of so many extraordinary talents! I’m super excited by this one, which is also forthcoming in my collection, MORE FLOWERS, out with Trio House Press in February 2026! 💙💜

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Susan L. Leary

At First, Obedience, Subsequently—

Defiance. The wound,
begging for attention: its half heart
beating beneath a lace doily while the ugliness

explodes to the surface. Why
disrupt this flourish of peace, this little tomb of white space? She looks good,

they'd said. Brave inside unworkable conditions. Dead or alive, we make an
anniversary of our sorrow, expeditious

with our buckets of spring. To what do we owe the pleasure? You fabricate worlds in dreams while a girl fabricates worlds

on the page. This is what is meant by ritual.
When we say, the pedigree of the mouth-body is good. There's no use determining for whom

our company is intended. Every gesture
is dangerous. Were I to cut my ear off,
I'd give it to you.

An image of the front cover of Cream City Review.

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 13d

Reading your poem twice, my mind carrying its buckets of spring, my heart with the girl and her page. 💙 Congratulations, dear Susan!

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 13d

It was a lovely surprise! 🌸

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 13d

Oh, I love your drifting blossoms! 💕 Thank you for this, Jenny!

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 14d

A full and warm breeze of cherry blossom haiku to soften your day.
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Honoured to have two of my poems included…sharing haiku brings me joy!

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2025 Winning Haiku - Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

Judged by Sonja Arntzen, Anne Elise Burgevin, and P. H. Fischer Read commentary on winning poems! All poems are listed in alphabetical order in each category. Vancouver | British Columbia | Canada | U...

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 16d

Mergansers in the mist. I took this from my kayak on Tuesday morning. #birds 🌿

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Lizzy Gadd @elizabethgadd.bsky.social · Feb 21

“The Heart of Ancient Earth”

I waited 10 years to take this self portrait - every time I visited this location there were tons of tourists (and I’m shy, haha). But last year, at 2am during midsummer, I finally found myself alone with these beautiful basalt columns. 🖤

#photography #selfportrait

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve been so quiet. Maybe it’s the tumultuous state of the world, or grief, that sends me to my inner world. Yesterday I returned to the sea, a place of solace. It offered me this midden, a glass bead, tumbled by its time spent in the tides. Tumbled like me.

A view of the Olympic Mountains in Washington, across the Salish Sea, viewed from Canadian shores.

A large white glass bead, the size of a marble, tumbled by its time spent in the sea.

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · Sep 24

On a journey within my life’s journey.

Looking down at my feet, standing on a sun-dappled cathedral floor.

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · Sep 22

Thank you, Melissa! It was such a surprise! 🎉🩷

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