Karin Hedetniemi
@karinhedet.bsky.social
Writer, wanderer. Finding quiet beauty in life✨Creative nonfiction, photography, poetry and haiku • Just being human here.
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A cozy night for Lohikeitto (Finnish salmon soup).
December 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
A cozy night for Lohikeitto (Finnish salmon soup).
On the quiet season.🌌
Thank you to The Listening Eye for publishing this in their 2024-2025 Health Issue. www.kent.edu/listeningeye
Thank you to The Listening Eye for publishing this in their 2024-2025 Health Issue. www.kent.edu/listeningeye
December 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
On the quiet season.🌌
Thank you to The Listening Eye for publishing this in their 2024-2025 Health Issue. www.kent.edu/listeningeye
Thank you to The Listening Eye for publishing this in their 2024-2025 Health Issue. www.kent.edu/listeningeye
Everything had been donated to the animal shelter months ago. I was doing okay until I found my sweet girl’s holiday collar in the Christmas box. 🥺❤️
December 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Everything had been donated to the animal shelter months ago. I was doing okay until I found my sweet girl’s holiday collar in the Christmas box. 🥺❤️
Incredibly delighted to receive this gorgeous handmade art in the mail today, as part of the second prize package! Every envelope and enclosure was decorated with care and love. I could not ask for a better home for my haiku poem. 🌸
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Incredibly delighted to receive this gorgeous handmade art in the mail today, as part of the second prize package! Every envelope and enclosure was decorated with care and love. I could not ask for a better home for my haiku poem. 🌸
My best friend visited and fell in love with Nova Scotia. Her retirement dream is to drive across Canada and explore the Maritimes. I made her this gift to keep her dreams in sight. ♥️
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
My best friend visited and fell in love with Nova Scotia. Her retirement dream is to drive across Canada and explore the Maritimes. I made her this gift to keep her dreams in sight. ♥️
Went thrifting and found this vintage reindeer for an ornament exchange next month…but now I am attached, and must go thrifting again. 💛
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Went thrifting and found this vintage reindeer for an ornament exchange next month…but now I am attached, and must go thrifting again. 💛
Peace, joy, love, beauty. ✨
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Peace, joy, love, beauty. ✨
Yesterday we adopted this sweet senior pup from the city shelter. His first 10 years are a mystery. He spent time as a stray, until a kind person brought him for help. Shelter staff gave him medical & dental care, a warm bed, a bath, and a full belly. He’s a total love bug! We named him Lucky.🐞❤️
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Yesterday we adopted this sweet senior pup from the city shelter. His first 10 years are a mystery. He spent time as a stray, until a kind person brought him for help. Shelter staff gave him medical & dental care, a warm bed, a bath, and a full belly. He’s a total love bug! We named him Lucky.🐞❤️
Found inside a free little library, a fortune from a jar called “Good for a Note.” 🩵
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Found inside a free little library, a fortune from a jar called “Good for a Note.” 🩵
On the same day, after five months, the universe said no to this dog, and no to the poem…but it said yes to faith and trust, and yes to this November blackberry, ripe and sweet in its own perfect hour.
November 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
On the same day, after five months, the universe said no to this dog, and no to the poem…but it said yes to faith and trust, and yes to this November blackberry, ripe and sweet in its own perfect hour.
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.
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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.
“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
“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
October 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“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
“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
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.
October 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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.
The sweet little painting I saw at a market, on my last day in France, that now hangs in my heart.
October 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The sweet little painting I saw at a market, on my last day in France, that now hangs in my heart.
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.
October 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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.
On a journey within my life’s journey.
September 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
On a journey within my life’s journey.
First blush of a day.
September 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
First blush of a day.
Picking the last wild blackberries at the back of the yard. 💜 #farewellsweetsummer
September 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Picking the last wild blackberries at the back of the yard. 💜 #farewellsweetsummer
Friends, I have missed you! I’ve been recovering from Covid for almost all of August. Still struggling to clear my lungs, find my voice. But I can give you this…something beautiful from my corner of the world. ✨
August 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Friends, I have missed you! I’ve been recovering from Covid for almost all of August. Still struggling to clear my lungs, find my voice. But I can give you this…something beautiful from my corner of the world. ✨
Home sweet home, sweet key lime pie.
August 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Home sweet home, sweet key lime pie.
A moment of solidarity waving to all other caregivers of elderly parents…those giving nursing care, emotional support, cooking, cleaning, dressing, coaching meds, running errands, on shifts without breaks, sleeping away from home on their parents’ floors. Thank you, night crows, for seeing us.
July 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
A moment of solidarity waving to all other caregivers of elderly parents…those giving nursing care, emotional support, cooking, cleaning, dressing, coaching meds, running errands, on shifts without breaks, sleeping away from home on their parents’ floors. Thank you, night crows, for seeing us.
Summer goes by quietly.💙
July 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Summer goes by quietly.💙
Hello, little beauty. 🤎
July 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Hello, little beauty. 🤎
Lavender harvest day. 💜
July 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Lavender harvest day. 💜