Janette Watt (she/they)
@janettewatt.bsky.social
Janette reflects on issues affecting us all. A career as a lawyer, academic, and a government policymaker - what has always driven her is a passion for a better world for everyone.
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My reflection that I post on Monday is meant to remind us that "we've got this!"
Find all my posted reflections here janettewatt.substack.com anytime -- I've kept them FREE for ALL ❤️
This powerful quote is from amazing @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social here: adriennemareebrown.net/.../living-t...
Find all my posted reflections here janettewatt.substack.com anytime -- I've kept them FREE for ALL ❤️
This powerful quote is from amazing @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social here: adriennemareebrown.net/.../living-t...
December 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My reflection that I post on Monday is meant to remind us that "we've got this!"
Find all my posted reflections here janettewatt.substack.com anytime -- I've kept them FREE for ALL ❤️
This powerful quote is from amazing @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social here: adriennemareebrown.net/.../living-t...
Find all my posted reflections here janettewatt.substack.com anytime -- I've kept them FREE for ALL ❤️
This powerful quote is from amazing @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social here: adriennemareebrown.net/.../living-t...
😁 YES my morning latte DOES have a happy face!!
Barista credit: Ramiro @neocattivik 🥰
#LITTLETHINGScanMAKEmeHAPPY
#joy
#peacefulness
#writers #poets #artists #activists #MORNINGcaffeine
Barista credit: Ramiro @neocattivik 🥰
#LITTLETHINGScanMAKEmeHAPPY
#joy
#peacefulness
#writers #poets #artists #activists #MORNINGcaffeine
December 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
😁 YES my morning latte DOES have a happy face!!
Barista credit: Ramiro @neocattivik 🥰
#LITTLETHINGScanMAKEmeHAPPY
#joy
#peacefulness
#writers #poets #artists #activists #MORNINGcaffeine
Barista credit: Ramiro @neocattivik 🥰
#LITTLETHINGScanMAKEmeHAPPY
#joy
#peacefulness
#writers #poets #artists #activists #MORNINGcaffeine
✨️ peacefulness is a place that already exists in each of us ... - jw. janettewatt.substack.com
#peace #aBETTERworld #chaosNOTinevitable #EQUALITYforALL #writers #poets #activists
#TRUTH
#peace #aBETTERworld #chaosNOTinevitable #EQUALITYforALL #writers #poets #activists
#TRUTH
December 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
✨️ peacefulness is a place that already exists in each of us ... - jw. janettewatt.substack.com
#peace #aBETTERworld #chaosNOTinevitable #EQUALITYforALL #writers #poets #activists
#TRUTH
#peace #aBETTERworld #chaosNOTinevitable #EQUALITYforALL #writers #poets #activists
#TRUTH
Our first friends were family and neighbours -- and we were capable of creating whole worlds together.
More this week on my substack about friendship: janettewatt.substack.com
The original photograph "French snowman" is a postcard ca. 1910s from publicdomainreview.org/.../photographs-of-snowmen/
More this week on my substack about friendship: janettewatt.substack.com
The original photograph "French snowman" is a postcard ca. 1910s from publicdomainreview.org/.../photographs-of-snowmen/
December 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Our first friends were family and neighbours -- and we were capable of creating whole worlds together.
More this week on my substack about friendship: janettewatt.substack.com
The original photograph "French snowman" is a postcard ca. 1910s from publicdomainreview.org/.../photographs-of-snowmen/
More this week on my substack about friendship: janettewatt.substack.com
The original photograph "French snowman" is a postcard ca. 1910s from publicdomainreview.org/.../photographs-of-snowmen/
THIS WEEK, I wrote about friends: how many do you want, do you have and how many are forever?
Please come spend time with my short reads and let me know your thoughts janettewatt.substack.com
#culture #friendship
This wonderful work of art is titled Friends Forever found here gillieandmarc.com
Please come spend time with my short reads and let me know your thoughts janettewatt.substack.com
#culture #friendship
This wonderful work of art is titled Friends Forever found here gillieandmarc.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
THIS WEEK, I wrote about friends: how many do you want, do you have and how many are forever?
Please come spend time with my short reads and let me know your thoughts janettewatt.substack.com
#culture #friendship
This wonderful work of art is titled Friends Forever found here gillieandmarc.com
Please come spend time with my short reads and let me know your thoughts janettewatt.substack.com
#culture #friendship
This wonderful work of art is titled Friends Forever found here gillieandmarc.com
✨️ Look what I discovered this morning on our garland that runs along the patio railing. A pappus, looks like milkweed. How did it get here in winter weather? It wasn't there just yesterday ...a little miracle. One to go along with Jack the Christmas Pumpkin. Sending HUGS, jw. #nature #writers #poets
December 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
✨️ Look what I discovered this morning on our garland that runs along the patio railing. A pappus, looks like milkweed. How did it get here in winter weather? It wasn't there just yesterday ...a little miracle. One to go along with Jack the Christmas Pumpkin. Sending HUGS, jw. #nature #writers #poets
I was deciding which reflection to post on my Substack next Monday and last night's fortune cookie helped decide for me!
Find me here janettewatt.substack.com anytime!
This week's post was FUN -- know a TEEN? Need some help with their SLANG? You'll find it on my Substack with directions! #culture
Find me here janettewatt.substack.com anytime!
This week's post was FUN -- know a TEEN? Need some help with their SLANG? You'll find it on my Substack with directions! #culture
December 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I was deciding which reflection to post on my Substack next Monday and last night's fortune cookie helped decide for me!
Find me here janettewatt.substack.com anytime!
This week's post was FUN -- know a TEEN? Need some help with their SLANG? You'll find it on my Substack with directions! #culture
Find me here janettewatt.substack.com anytime!
This week's post was FUN -- know a TEEN? Need some help with their SLANG? You'll find it on my Substack with directions! #culture
With the help of awesome teens in my life I wrote a fun piece this week about SLANG here janettewatt.substack.com CAUTION: do not use teen slang without proper supervision!
😁
Cartoon source - search: Berger & Wyse on teen slang (from the Guardian)
#poets #writers #rebels #teens #slang #culture #art
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Cartoon source - search: Berger & Wyse on teen slang (from the Guardian)
#poets #writers #rebels #teens #slang #culture #art
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This week on my Substack janettewatt.substack.com I wrote about how SLANG can be an important way to communicate. This includes activists! SLANG words are often fundamental to building solidarity and help to motivate us to carry on! And when words are taken from us we MUST reclaim them. #activists
December 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This week on my Substack janettewatt.substack.com I wrote about how SLANG can be an important way to communicate. This includes activists! SLANG words are often fundamental to building solidarity and help to motivate us to carry on! And when words are taken from us we MUST reclaim them. #activists
SLANG! Sometimes it's FUN!
What about this one? Are you a RIZZLER? Don't know? It’s a SLANG term for charisma or charm, especially in the context of attracting or impressing others.
Come have fun and read more on my Substack this week! janettewatt.substack.com
#WRITERS #POETS #ARTISTS #CULTURE
What about this one? Are you a RIZZLER? Don't know? It’s a SLANG term for charisma or charm, especially in the context of attracting or impressing others.
Come have fun and read more on my Substack this week! janettewatt.substack.com
#WRITERS #POETS #ARTISTS #CULTURE
December 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
SLANG! Sometimes it's FUN!
What about this one? Are you a RIZZLER? Don't know? It’s a SLANG term for charisma or charm, especially in the context of attracting or impressing others.
Come have fun and read more on my Substack this week! janettewatt.substack.com
#WRITERS #POETS #ARTISTS #CULTURE
What about this one? Are you a RIZZLER? Don't know? It’s a SLANG term for charisma or charm, especially in the context of attracting or impressing others.
Come have fun and read more on my Substack this week! janettewatt.substack.com
#WRITERS #POETS #ARTISTS #CULTURE
As I try to find ways to connect and understand, I've been gathering up some things that have turned into something REALLY FUN!! I'M SHARING IT IN MY next substack post this coming Monday. Find what I write on my Substack -- I write for you janettewatt.substack.com
#Writers #Poets #Artists #CREATE
#Writers #Poets #Artists #CREATE
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
As I try to find ways to connect and understand, I've been gathering up some things that have turned into something REALLY FUN!! I'M SHARING IT IN MY next substack post this coming Monday. Find what I write on my Substack -- I write for you janettewatt.substack.com
#Writers #Poets #Artists #CREATE
#Writers #Poets #Artists #CREATE
✨️ We can ALL still imagine. WE CAN!! We just need to take the time -- and it can be fun!! ... and it's also REALLY important for our heads and hearts!! 🙂 More about why we need to keep imagining here: janettewatt.substack.com
AND YES those are some of my books and my polka dot ukulele 😀 #IMAGINE
AND YES those are some of my books and my polka dot ukulele 😀 #IMAGINE
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
✨️ We can ALL still imagine. WE CAN!! We just need to take the time -- and it can be fun!! ... and it's also REALLY important for our heads and hearts!! 🙂 More about why we need to keep imagining here: janettewatt.substack.com
AND YES those are some of my books and my polka dot ukulele 😀 #IMAGINE
AND YES those are some of my books and my polka dot ukulele 😀 #IMAGINE
Once upon a time, as children, we imagined ourselves all the way into a better world. The greatest thinkers in history believed that if we keep imagining anything is possible! Read more on my Substack this week ... please imagine ... for you and me and ... well, posterity. janettewatt.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Once upon a time, as children, we imagined ourselves all the way into a better world. The greatest thinkers in history believed that if we keep imagining anything is possible! Read more on my Substack this week ... please imagine ... for you and me and ... well, posterity. janettewatt.substack.com
Took this photo just now. May look like I'm taking a break from writing, but its all part of the same intention: finding ways to reach out and connect. I love my family, friends ... and as the childhood poem goes, I also love... "the friends I haven't yet met". I write here: janettewatt.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Took this photo just now. May look like I'm taking a break from writing, but its all part of the same intention: finding ways to reach out and connect. I love my family, friends ... and as the childhood poem goes, I also love... "the friends I haven't yet met". I write here: janettewatt.substack.com
From Aristotle to Hume to Einstein, so many great minds figured out the importance of IMAGINATION! If we can imagine it - it is possible! Take flying! So let's get to it again - let's all of us (re)imagine our world!
I wrote about (re)learning to imagine here: janettewatt.substack.com Come visit!
I wrote about (re)learning to imagine here: janettewatt.substack.com Come visit!
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
From Aristotle to Hume to Einstein, so many great minds figured out the importance of IMAGINATION! If we can imagine it - it is possible! Take flying! So let's get to it again - let's all of us (re)imagine our world!
I wrote about (re)learning to imagine here: janettewatt.substack.com Come visit!
I wrote about (re)learning to imagine here: janettewatt.substack.com Come visit!
✨️ ... we can all still imagine if we try,
I know this to be true ... that's part of what I'm contemplating ahead of completing the reflection I'm working on for next week. Please stop by and find my thoughts and share yours too. I am here: janettewatt.substack.com
Kind Regards,
- jw. ✨️
never far.
I know this to be true ... that's part of what I'm contemplating ahead of completing the reflection I'm working on for next week. Please stop by and find my thoughts and share yours too. I am here: janettewatt.substack.com
Kind Regards,
- jw. ✨️
never far.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
✨️ ... we can all still imagine if we try,
I know this to be true ... that's part of what I'm contemplating ahead of completing the reflection I'm working on for next week. Please stop by and find my thoughts and share yours too. I am here: janettewatt.substack.com
Kind Regards,
- jw. ✨️
never far.
I know this to be true ... that's part of what I'm contemplating ahead of completing the reflection I'm working on for next week. Please stop by and find my thoughts and share yours too. I am here: janettewatt.substack.com
Kind Regards,
- jw. ✨️
never far.
Survival of the fittest is a phrase that was always flawed - from the beginning. It never reflected reality. YET, it's been used to prop up injustices, inequalities, and every "ism" that hurts and divides us. Read more on my Substack this week: janettewatt.substack.com
#justice #equality #TOGETHER
#justice #equality #TOGETHER
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Survival of the fittest is a phrase that was always flawed - from the beginning. It never reflected reality. YET, it's been used to prop up injustices, inequalities, and every "ism" that hurts and divides us. Read more on my Substack this week: janettewatt.substack.com
#justice #equality #TOGETHER
#justice #equality #TOGETHER
I seek out those who go beyond their own pain recognizing their experiences are part of broader struggles. Those who work to foster solidarity and understanding. People brave enough to take their voices into the streets alongside the rest of us who care.
More here: janettewatt.substack.com
More here: janettewatt.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I seek out those who go beyond their own pain recognizing their experiences are part of broader struggles. Those who work to foster solidarity and understanding. People brave enough to take their voices into the streets alongside the rest of us who care.
More here: janettewatt.substack.com
More here: janettewatt.substack.com
YOU and I #SURVIVE and #THRIVE through acts of mutual aid AND NOT when we compete to see who's the "fittest". This isn't a new idea. Homer wrote "By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made." A short reflection here: janettewatt.substack.com/p/a-dangerou...
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
YOU and I #SURVIVE and #THRIVE through acts of mutual aid AND NOT when we compete to see who's the "fittest". This isn't a new idea. Homer wrote "By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made." A short reflection here: janettewatt.substack.com/p/a-dangerou...
Einstein's words above are in the opening pages of Living Philosophies (1931). The book I hold in my hands was well-worn when I purchased it, even more worn now. I love books, especially books that carry forward the voices of people "upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends"... -jw
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Einstein's words above are in the opening pages of Living Philosophies (1931). The book I hold in my hands was well-worn when I purchased it, even more worn now. I love books, especially books that carry forward the voices of people "upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends"... -jw
Einstein understood that we need each other to survive, to thrive ... it has NEVER been about "survival of the fittest" ... it is "survival because we have one another" ... Read more on my substack this week titled: A Dangerous Lie: "Survival of the Fittest" here janettewatt.substack.com
#community
#community
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Einstein understood that we need each other to survive, to thrive ... it has NEVER been about "survival of the fittest" ... it is "survival because we have one another" ... Read more on my substack this week titled: A Dangerous Lie: "Survival of the Fittest" here janettewatt.substack.com
#community
#community
✨️ I learned very early in my life what people need to do to survive - it was never about competition. We need each other and we need to understand how to go about that...
- jw. Never far. ❤️ find more of what I think about, write about here janettewatt.substack.com
#humanity #culture #socialissues
- jw. Never far. ❤️ find more of what I think about, write about here janettewatt.substack.com
#humanity #culture #socialissues
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
✨️ I learned very early in my life what people need to do to survive - it was never about competition. We need each other and we need to understand how to go about that...
- jw. Never far. ❤️ find more of what I think about, write about here janettewatt.substack.com
#humanity #culture #socialissues
- jw. Never far. ❤️ find more of what I think about, write about here janettewatt.substack.com
#humanity #culture #socialissues
Hannah Arendt wasn't known for her poetry but she carried her own poems with her, all of her life. I think I know why.
...when words fail the sharpest minds, what comes then?
first silence, then poetry ... - jw. More about this here: janettewatt.substack.com/.../tears-an....
#Arendt #Wittgenstein
...when words fail the sharpest minds, what comes then?
first silence, then poetry ... - jw. More about this here: janettewatt.substack.com/.../tears-an....
#Arendt #Wittgenstein
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Hannah Arendt wasn't known for her poetry but she carried her own poems with her, all of her life. I think I know why.
...when words fail the sharpest minds, what comes then?
first silence, then poetry ... - jw. More about this here: janettewatt.substack.com/.../tears-an....
#Arendt #Wittgenstein
...when words fail the sharpest minds, what comes then?
first silence, then poetry ... - jw. More about this here: janettewatt.substack.com/.../tears-an....
#Arendt #Wittgenstein
Paintings inspired by poetry, poetry inspired by literature, literature inspired by paintings - all of it inspired by experiences that the ordinary placement of words just can't seem to capture ... I write about the poetry part (and silence too) here: janettewatt.substack.com/p/tears-and-...
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Paintings inspired by poetry, poetry inspired by literature, literature inspired by paintings - all of it inspired by experiences that the ordinary placement of words just can't seem to capture ... I write about the poetry part (and silence too) here: janettewatt.substack.com/p/tears-and-...