Theresa Kishkan
@fishgottaswim.bsky.social
a devotee of essays, novellas, hybrid writing, rivers, trees. 17 books. The Art of Looking Back: a painter, an obsession, and reclaiming the gaze, forthcoming (Thornapple Press, 2026). North American half of fishgottaswimeditions.com
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Please share this, everybody! There's more info about Sheri and this story in the thread, so click through. #missing
Important: #Kamloops and area people
My sister Sheri Bissonnette has been missing from Kamloops since Wednesday morning. We now have video clips that look very much like her truck on Long Lake Road off Hwy5A and another clip near Goose Lake Rd in the same area. 1/4
My sister Sheri Bissonnette has been missing from Kamloops since Wednesday morning. We now have video clips that look very much like her truck on Long Lake Road off Hwy5A and another clip near Goose Lake Rd in the same area. 1/4
November 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Please share this, everybody! There's more info about Sheri and this story in the thread, so click through. #missing
As Christmas approaches, I'd like to acknowledge the stellar work done by local Sunshine Coast bookstores, Talewind Books in Sechelt, and Earthfair in Madeira Park. They stock Coast writers, they promote their books, they make gift-buying easy, and they are central to a strong local economy.
November 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
As Christmas approaches, I'd like to acknowledge the stellar work done by local Sunshine Coast bookstores, Talewind Books in Sechelt, and Earthfair in Madeira Park. They stock Coast writers, they promote their books, they make gift-buying easy, and they are central to a strong local economy.
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"Sometimes I just take one of the pots in my hands and hold it. There’s life to them, life in their shapeliness, their inner space."
This morning I wrote about pots.
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Alt Text: red raku tea bowl next to a pine cone
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Alt Text: red raku tea bowl next to a pine cone
foundational
Yesterday I had a virtual visit to a class reading my novella, The Weight of the Heart. (Thank you, Richard Pickard!) In the course of the discussion, I found myself admitting that the 1970s had be…
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November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"Sometimes I just take one of the pots in my hands and hold it. There’s life to them, life in their shapeliness, their inner space."
"Sometimes I just take one of the pots in my hands and hold it. There’s life to them, life in their shapeliness, their inner space."
This morning I wrote about pots.
theresakishkan.com/2025/11/29/f...
Alt Text: red raku tea bowl next to a pine cone
theresakishkan.com/2025/11/29/f...
Alt Text: red raku tea bowl next to a pine cone
foundational
Yesterday I had a virtual visit to a class reading my novella, The Weight of the Heart. (Thank you, Richard Pickard!) In the course of the discussion, I found myself admitting that the 1970s had be…
theresakishkan.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"Sometimes I just take one of the pots in my hands and hold it. There’s life to them, life in their shapeliness, their inner space."
This morning I wrote about pots.
theresakishkan.com/2025/11/29/f...
Alt Text: red raku tea bowl next to a pine cone
theresakishkan.com/2025/11/29/f...
Alt Text: red raku tea bowl next to a pine cone
foundational
Yesterday I had a virtual visit to a class reading my novella, The Weight of the Heart. (Thank you, Richard Pickard!) In the course of the discussion, I found myself admitting that the 1970s had be…
theresakishkan.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This morning I wrote about pots.
theresakishkan.com/2025/11/29/f...
Alt Text: red raku tea bowl next to a pine cone
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Alt Text: red raku tea bowl next to a pine cone
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Please share this: my friend Marv's sister has been missing for 72 hours. She lives in Kamloops, but police think she may be in Surrey (based on device pings, but she left her usual phone at home). Details about her vehicle are in the linked story.
This is my sister, Sheri-Lynn Bissonnette. If you know anything at all, please contact me here or the RCMP.
This is extremely out of character and everyone is worried sick.
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#kamloops #missing
This is extremely out of character and everyone is worried sick.
cfjctoday.com/2025/11/27/k...
#kamloops #missing
Kamloops RCMP searching for missing 57-year-old woman
KAMLOOPS - Police in Kamloops are asking for help in locating a missing 57-year-old woman, who hasn't been see...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Please share this: my friend Marv's sister has been missing for 72 hours. She lives in Kamloops, but police think she may be in Surrey (based on device pings, but she left her usual phone at home). Details about her vehicle are in the linked story.
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Happy to have been able to circle back to this research (@medievalpenguin.bsky.social will recognize it!) in the context of this summer's droughts and resulting dry wells. #cdnhist #envhist
Today we have "On Drought, Dowsing, and Deep Drilling: Thinking About Groundwater History in an Age of Climate Emergency" by @forrestpass.bsky.social
“When European settlers arrived in the region in the nineteenth century, they found the groundwater perplexing.”
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“When European settlers arrived in the region in the nineteenth century, they found the groundwater perplexing.”
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On Drought, Dowsing, and Deep Drilling: Thinking About Groundwater History in an Age of Climate Emergency
Canada’s 2025 drought exposed groundwater precarity; in the past, Ottawa Valley settlers adapted to this precarity through dowsing, augers, and evolving well technologies.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Happy to have been able to circle back to this research (@medievalpenguin.bsky.social will recognize it!) in the context of this summer's droughts and resulting dry wells. #cdnhist #envhist
Keep listening to the survivors of sexual violence and exploitation. And don't let the story go quiet.
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If Epstein’s survivors don’t receive justice that is a ticking time bomb | V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Millions of sexual violence survivors will not live a day longer with this torturous injustice
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November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Keep listening to the survivors of sexual violence and exploitation. And don't let the story go quiet.
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Yesterday, the beauty of blue and white.
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Alt text: blue and white pottery bowls, mugs, vases on a blue and white cloth
Alt text: blue and white pottery bowls, mugs, vases on a blue and white cloth
“Clay ties itself/in knots for you.” (Jen Hadfield)
I was just reaching into a high cupboard for a platter — the one with the fish towards the top of this photograph — reaching for a platter to unmold a dessert I baked late morning for a…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Yesterday, the beauty of blue and white.
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I'm ready if I am: activehistory.ca/blog/2023/02...
Is the Canadian Red Ensign an extremist symbol?
Forrest Pass Fifty-eight years ago today, the Canadian Red Ensign ceased to be the national flag. Yet in 2022, the Ensign unexpectedly became a subject of public discussion again. Its occasional a…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I'm ready if I am: activehistory.ca/blog/2023/02...
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Alt text: blue and white pottery bowls, mugs, vases on a blue and white cloth
Alt text: blue and white pottery bowls, mugs, vases on a blue and white cloth
“Clay ties itself/in knots for you.” (Jen Hadfield)
I was just reaching into a high cupboard for a platter — the one with the fish towards the top of this photograph — reaching for a platter to unmold a dessert I baked late morning for a…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Alt text: blue and white pottery bowls, mugs, vases on a blue and white cloth
Alt text: blue and white pottery bowls, mugs, vases on a blue and white cloth
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Alt text: blue and white pottery bowls, mugs, vases on a blue and white cloth
Alt text: blue and white pottery bowls, mugs, vases on a blue and white cloth
“Clay ties itself/in knots for you.” (Jen Hadfield)
I was just reaching into a high cupboard for a platter — the one with the fish towards the top of this photograph — reaching for a platter to unmold a dessert I baked late morning for a…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Alt text: blue and white pottery bowls, mugs, vases on a blue and white cloth
Alt text: blue and white pottery bowls, mugs, vases on a blue and white cloth
I've had 2 detailed emails this week from "representatives" from an organization purporting to promote books to book clubs. The emails come from Nigeria. What a world. Don't fall for it if you receive the same.
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I've had 2 detailed emails this week from "representatives" from an organization purporting to promote books to book clubs. The emails come from Nigeria. What a world. Don't fall for it if you receive the same.
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"As I listen to Emmylou sing, I am hoping that the summers will return to us, warm and sweet, the roses tumbling over the garden fence, bees in the oregano, honeysuckle weaving through the deck railings..."
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Alt text: a white building, a pink one, coils of green hose in front of the white one, and a man walking by.
Alt text: a white building, a pink one, coils of green hose in front of the white one, and a man walking by.
Friday gallimaufry
Remembering: We passed this store in Vila Nova de Foz Côa every time we walked up from our little flat to shop on the main pedestrian street. There were often men standing around outside, talking. …
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November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"As I listen to Emmylou sing, I am hoping that the summers will return to us, warm and sweet, the roses tumbling over the garden fence, bees in the oregano, honeysuckle weaving through the deck railings..."
"As I listen to Emmylou sing, I am hoping that the summers will return to us, warm and sweet, the roses tumbling over the garden fence, bees in the oregano, honeysuckle weaving through the deck railings..."
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Alt text: a white building, a pink one, coils of green hose in front of the white one, and a man walking by.
Alt text: a white building, a pink one, coils of green hose in front of the white one, and a man walking by.
Friday gallimaufry
Remembering: We passed this store in Vila Nova de Foz Côa every time we walked up from our little flat to shop on the main pedestrian street. There were often men standing around outside, talking. …
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November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"As I listen to Emmylou sing, I am hoping that the summers will return to us, warm and sweet, the roses tumbling over the garden fence, bees in the oregano, honeysuckle weaving through the deck railings..."
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Alt text: a white building, a pink one, coils of green hose in front of the white one, and a man walking by.
Alt text: a white building, a pink one, coils of green hose in front of the white one, and a man walking by.
Friday gallimaufry
Remembering: We passed this store in Vila Nova de Foz Côa every time we walked up from our little flat to shop on the main pedestrian street. There were often men standing around outside, talking. …
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November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Alt text: a white building, a pink one, coils of green hose in front of the white one, and a man walking by.
Alt text: a white building, a pink one, coils of green hose in front of the white one, and a man walking by.
Indigenous Relations: Letting Go of Zero-Sum Thinking via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Indigenous Relations: Letting Go of Zero-Sum Thinking | The Tyee
Responses to the Cowichan decision have stoked fear about private property. There’s a more just and hopeful way forward.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Indigenous Relations: Letting Go of Zero-Sum Thinking via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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Alt text: a white building, a pink one, coils of green hose in front of the white one, and a man walking by.
Alt text: a white building, a pink one, coils of green hose in front of the white one, and a man walking by.
Friday gallimaufry
Remembering: We passed this store in Vila Nova de Foz Côa every time we walked up from our little flat to shop on the main pedestrian street. There were often men standing around outside, talking. …
theresakishkan.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Alt text: a white building, a pink one, coils of green hose in front of the white one, and a man walking by.
Alt text: a white building, a pink one, coils of green hose in front of the white one, and a man walking by.
Indigenous Relations: Letting Go of Zero-Sum Thinking via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Indigenous Relations: Letting Go of Zero-Sum Thinking | The Tyee
Responses to the Cowichan decision have stoked fear about private property. There’s a more just and hopeful way forward.
thetyee.ca
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Indigenous Relations: Letting Go of Zero-Sum Thinking via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Wild Mountain Thyme - Dick Gaughan | Transatlantic Sessions | TG4
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November 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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We talked about what this meant in a world where the striving seems to be for more and better. A kind of empty perfection. I thought of Richard Olney cooking his sublime stews or grilling the chicken he’d first flattened and then stuffed wild mushrooms under the skin.
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Alt text: oranges in a blue patterned bowl on orange and blue Mexican tiles
Alt text: oranges in a blue patterned bowl on orange and blue Mexican tiles
“The door has a creaking latch.” (Pound)
We were sitting in O Freitas, around the corner from where we were staying in Porto last week, drinking Douro wine and talking about corks. The restaurant had a whole structure–a wall, sort o…
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November 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
We talked about what this meant in a world where the striving seems to be for more and better. A kind of empty perfection. I thought of Richard Olney cooking his sublime stews or grilling the chicken he’d first flattened and then stuffed wild mushrooms under the skin.
We talked about what this meant in a world where the striving seems to be for more and better. A kind of empty perfection. I thought of Richard Olney cooking his sublime stews or grilling the chicken he’d first flattened and then stuffed wild mushrooms under the skin.
theresakishkan.com/2025/11/17/t...
Alt text: oranges in a blue patterned bowl on orange and blue Mexican tiles
Alt text: oranges in a blue patterned bowl on orange and blue Mexican tiles
“The door has a creaking latch.” (Pound)
We were sitting in O Freitas, around the corner from where we were staying in Porto last week, drinking Douro wine and talking about corks. The restaurant had a whole structure–a wall, sort o…
theresakishkan.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
We talked about what this meant in a world where the striving seems to be for more and better. A kind of empty perfection. I thought of Richard Olney cooking his sublime stews or grilling the chicken he’d first flattened and then stuffed wild mushrooms under the skin.
Reposted by Theresa Kishkan
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Alt text: oranges in a blue patterned bowl on orange and blue Mexican tiles
Alt text: oranges in a blue patterned bowl on orange and blue Mexican tiles
“The door has a creaking latch.” (Pound)
We were sitting in O Freitas, around the corner from where we were staying in Porto last week, drinking Douro wine and talking about corks. The restaurant had a whole structure–a wall, sort o…
theresakishkan.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Alt text: oranges in a blue patterned bowl on orange and blue Mexican tiles
Alt text: oranges in a blue patterned bowl on orange and blue Mexican tiles
theresakishkan.com/2025/11/17/t...
Alt text: oranges in a blue patterned bowl on orange and blue Mexican tiles
Alt text: oranges in a blue patterned bowl on orange and blue Mexican tiles
“The door has a creaking latch.” (Pound)
We were sitting in O Freitas, around the corner from where we were staying in Porto last week, drinking Douro wine and talking about corks. The restaurant had a whole structure–a wall, sort o…
theresakishkan.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
theresakishkan.com/2025/11/17/t...
Alt text: oranges in a blue patterned bowl on orange and blue Mexican tiles
Alt text: oranges in a blue patterned bowl on orange and blue Mexican tiles