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Kerry Dexter

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writer, editor, poet, thinker, photographer https://kerrydexter.substack.com/ https://musicroad.blogspot.com/ https://www.wanderingeducators.com/best/stories/music-shifting-times https://perceptivetravel.com/blog/author/kerry/

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 21d

🎶Music encouraging & reminding of community in varied ways, from @caradillonsings.bsky.social , Tish Hinojosa, Dawn & Margie Beaton, &others, from the ongoing Music for Shifting Times series at @wanderingeducators.bsky.social www.wanderingeducators.com/best/stories...

Music for Community

In shifting times, it can be helpful to think about community. Communities can exist in person and at distance, online and face to face. They may be made up of those who are family near and far, work ...

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 1d

A moment for #reflection: Music inspired by the 🌊🎶☘️ waters, along with a lullabye in Irish, from @nualakennedy.bsky.social #flute #Ireland #creativity #composer #travel kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...

Sunday Sessions: Saltwater

Saltwater.

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 1d

A 🎶 song about choices and about storytelling, from Dirk Powell with @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social on backing vocals #CompassRecords kerrydexter.substack.com/p/a-song-abo...

A song about choices

This song has been on my mind a good bit lately.

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 1d

Do your best intentions matter? #Reflection on that in 🎶 music, from @carrienewcomer.bsky.social #creativity kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...

Sunday Sessions: Stones in the River

Most of us will never know

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Sarah @tinytunney.bsky.social · 2d

"There's no shortage of reasons these days to be angry or afraid. But look around you right now and you'll see tens of thousands of reasons to keep the faith and keep going. This is the America we know to be possible."

—Mayor Michelle Wu, Boston No Kings Rally 🚫👑 #NoKings

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 1d

Online Book Club | The Haw Lantern

📅 Fri, 31 Oct at 1pm:
https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/online-book-club-haw-lantern-0

Join us on Zoom for a chat about this month's poetry collection, The Haw Lantern, by #SeamusHeaney.

This book club is for everyone, you don't need to be a poetry expert!

Online Book Club | The Haw Lantern

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 2d

It is. Thanks @kairyssdal.bsky.social and @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 7d

Whirring Wings: 🎶 album from Matt and Shannon Heaton --> story at Music Road #Ireland #Boston #composer #flute #guitar #singer #creativity musicroad.blogspot.com/2025/04/whir...

Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds 🎶🍂of #autumn from the Music for Shifting Times series at @wanderingeducators.bsky.social 🎻@zoeconway.bsky.social & John McIntyre, Mary Black, others #creativity #reflection www.wanderingeducators.com/best/stories...

Autumn Stories: Music for Changing Times

Music for shifting times: that's the title we came up with for this series of stories which I've been writing since the summer of 2016. Wherever you find yourself, things do seem to be in continual sh...

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 2d

Signposts of hope through 🎶song, at @wanderingeducators.bsky.social music from Low Lily Band, Emily Smith, Carrie Newcomer, Aoife Scott #creativity #reflection www.wanderingeducators.com/best/stories...

Signposts: Music of Hope

In time when politics ideas, understandings, and communications shift, it is challenging to find touchstones,signposts, if you will, to guide decisions. The sort of music we share in this series -- a ...

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 2d

🎶Songs of protest. part 4 of 4 part series with music from @carrienewcomer.bsky.social, Rani Arbo & daisy Mayhem, @caradillonsings.bsky.social, Breabach, and others #creativity #reflection kerrydexter.substack.com/p/onward-son...

Onward: Songs of Protest part 4

We began this journey thinking about what songs of protest can do, what purposes they serve.

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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, I didn’t make it to the market today (bit ill) 🫣
Since I’m not there, here’s a discount code for my online shop with a market deal…

‘ MarketDay ’

3 prints for the price of 2!!

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✨Offer Only Today ✨
#MarketDay #Offer #FreePrint #Buy2Get3

Prints, Cards & Coasters | charlottestrawbridge

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

The word 'broadcasting' dates back centuries, and originally described a method of sowing seeds. But it took on a new meaning with the rise of radio in the 1920s.

The journey of the word 'broadcasting,' from agriculture to the airwaves

The word 'broadcasting' dates back centuries, and originally described a method of sowing seeds. But it took on a new meaning with the rise of radio in the 1920s.

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 3d

As you get ready for 🎃 #Halloween, stories from ghostly to mysterious, from Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, the US, and elsewhere with a 🎶song from @juliefowlis.bsky.social to go along, at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #travel #gadhlig #samhain perceptivetravel.com/blog/2023/10...

Otherworlds: 11 Stories & a Song for Your Halloween/Samhain

Otherworlds, places where connections between past and present arise, often come to mind around Halloween/Samhain. 11 stories and a song to go along.

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 5d

Rathlin Island: #history, landscape, legend meet in Northern Ireland ☘️ and...Santa Claus 🎅 too when the time 🎄 is right. Learn about all that at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #travel @discoverni.bsky.social perceptivetravel.com/blog/2015/10...

Rathlin Island: History, Landscape, Legend Meet

Legend, history, landscape, music, and a vibrant community off the Antrim coast: a look at Rathlin Island in Northern Ireland.

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Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social · 5d

Why did people build Skara Brae directly on a cliff edge 5,000 years ago? 🌊

They didn't! This Neolithic village in Orkney was originally built about a mile inland and is now being hit by brutal storms and increased erosion: bit.ly/ArchaeoClima...

Photo of an excavated Neolithic stone settlement by the sea

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 6d

Blue Mountain's Lullabye and Celtic Colours #creativity #gaidhlig #CapeBreton 🍁🎻🎶 kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...

Sunday Sessions: Blue Mountain's Lullabye and Celtic Colours

Blue Mountain’s Lullaby is a song in Gaelic from Cape Breton in Nova Scotia in Atlantic Canada

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 6d

In the US, #HispanicHeritageMonth is drawing to a close. Always a good time to explore work of musicians of Hispanic Heritage, though. Ideas in this story at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #creativity #travel perceptivetravel.com/blog/2021/09...

Hispanic Heritage: 7 Musicians To Discover

Hispanic Heritage: discover ways musicians including Joan Baez, Tish Hinojosa, Sol y Canto, Rick Trevino, & others make their heritage part of their creativity

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 6d

Celtic Colours International Festival 🍁🎶🎻🇨🇦 is underway, with concerts and community events you can attend live and concerts to watch online as well. Learn more at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #CapeBreton #creativity #Gaidhlig #travel perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/09...

Celtic Colours: Celebrating Creativity on Cape Breton

Autumn in Cape Breton: this season in Atlantic Canada means it's time for Celtic Colours International Festival celebrating music, heritage, community & more

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 9d

Celtic Colours International Festival 🍁🎻 is underway, through 18 Oct: 🎶♥️concerts at its heart, many community events too: food, craft, nature, workshops, art, dance, -- learn more at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #CapeBreton 🇨🇦 #Canada #travel perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/09...