Steve Skafte
@steveskafte.bsky.social
Ardent explorer of misplaced memories. Uninterrupted daily journal since 2007. These are excerpts from the full posts on Instagram, Facebook, Patreon, and Substack.
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COLOURLESS —— I find a lot to love in days gone grey, but when they meet up with a wetter white, I'm somewhat less enthused. The well-loved wonder in winter is more a thing of... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 17, 2025
Hampton, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6581 of my daily journal.
November 17, 2025
Hampton, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6581 of my daily journal.
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
COLOURLESS —— I find a lot to love in days gone grey, but when they meet up with a wetter white, I'm somewhat less enthused. The well-loved wonder in winter is more a thing of... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 17, 2025
Hampton, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6581 of my daily journal.
November 17, 2025
Hampton, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6581 of my daily journal.
we
will
never
live to see
the invention
of the time machine
the traveller crashing
out of the clouds
if it was
gonna
happen
(it would've
happened by now)
we would've wowed
our... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
will
never
live to see
the invention
of the time machine
the traveller crashing
out of the clouds
if it was
gonna
happen
(it would've
happened by now)
we would've wowed
our... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
Steve Skafte – The Traveller
YouTube video by Steve Skafte
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
we
will
never
live to see
the invention
of the time machine
the traveller crashing
out of the clouds
if it was
gonna
happen
(it would've
happened by now)
we would've wowed
our... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
will
never
live to see
the invention
of the time machine
the traveller crashing
out of the clouds
if it was
gonna
happen
(it would've
happened by now)
we would've wowed
our... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
I am the blue bruise baby
I am the skinned knee kid
every time I feel like getting older
someone says: "didn't you just begin?"
I'm a born bonfire in the rain
fighting the... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
I am the skinned knee kid
every time I feel like getting older
someone says: "didn't you just begin?"
I'm a born bonfire in the rain
fighting the... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
Steve Skafte – Stranger Mirror
YouTube video by Steve Skafte
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I am the blue bruise baby
I am the skinned knee kid
every time I feel like getting older
someone says: "didn't you just begin?"
I'm a born bonfire in the rain
fighting the... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
I am the skinned knee kid
every time I feel like getting older
someone says: "didn't you just begin?"
I'm a born bonfire in the rain
fighting the... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
CURIOUS QUIRK —— Steep embankments and abandoned transportation go well together. Anywhere an old road or overgrown field hangs over a stream hollow, look down and expect the... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
November 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
CURIOUS QUIRK —— Steep embankments and abandoned transportation go well together. Anywhere an old road or overgrown field hangs over a stream hollow, look down and expect the... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
WITHIN THE REALM —— If there's anything my life is bound to be about, it's got to be loving the light — and when less of it remains, there's more for me to love. Every day has... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
WITHIN THE REALM —— If there's anything my life is bound to be about, it's got to be loving the light — and when less of it remains, there's more for me to love. Every day has... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
OLD AUTUMN —— I think of the world most as a tangible place. Some see it in terms of spiritual experience, social interaction, or abstract notions all in their minds. But I... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
OLD AUTUMN —— I think of the world most as a tangible place. Some see it in terms of spiritual experience, social interaction, or abstract notions all in their minds. But I... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
November 16, 2025
Woodville, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6580 of my daily journal.
SHIFT IN TIME —— What exactly is so compelling about falling, crashing water that keeps humans coming back? For me, it's mostly how the roar can serve to overpower anything... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 15, 2025
Cherryfield, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6579 of my daily journal.
November 15, 2025
Cherryfield, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6579 of my daily journal.
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
SHIFT IN TIME —— What exactly is so compelling about falling, crashing water that keeps humans coming back? For me, it's mostly how the roar can serve to overpower anything... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 15, 2025
Cherryfield, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6579 of my daily journal.
November 15, 2025
Cherryfield, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6579 of my daily journal.
CAGED DOVE
a third of my life has passed
since I last sat through a Sunday service
but maybe I was always on my way out
not running from faith, but falling for love
and the.. [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 15, 2025
Cherryfield, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6579 of my daily journal.
a third of my life has passed
since I last sat through a Sunday service
but maybe I was always on my way out
not running from faith, but falling for love
and the.. [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 15, 2025
Cherryfield, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6579 of my daily journal.
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
CAGED DOVE
a third of my life has passed
since I last sat through a Sunday service
but maybe I was always on my way out
not running from faith, but falling for love
and the.. [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 15, 2025
Cherryfield, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6579 of my daily journal.
a third of my life has passed
since I last sat through a Sunday service
but maybe I was always on my way out
not running from faith, but falling for love
and the.. [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 15, 2025
Cherryfield, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6579 of my daily journal.
all my life,
I've been confusing
calm cause with chaotic effect
thinking things of beauty
must come from intent
in a universe without accident
what if the intention was mine?
to... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 14, 2025
Paradise, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6578 of my daily journal.
I've been confusing
calm cause with chaotic effect
thinking things of beauty
must come from intent
in a universe without accident
what if the intention was mine?
to... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 14, 2025
Paradise, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6578 of my daily journal.
Steve Skafte - Brain Sees Beauty
YouTube video by Steve Skafte
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
all my life,
I've been confusing
calm cause with chaotic effect
thinking things of beauty
must come from intent
in a universe without accident
what if the intention was mine?
to... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 14, 2025
Paradise, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6578 of my daily journal.
I've been confusing
calm cause with chaotic effect
thinking things of beauty
must come from intent
in a universe without accident
what if the intention was mine?
to... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 14, 2025
Paradise, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6578 of my daily journal.
I am the folk
song forgiven
for the melody stolen
in the old country
you don't sue a stranger
for singing along
I am the unoriginal individual
masterpiece assembled
from second... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 13, 2025
Outram, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6577 of my daily journal.
song forgiven
for the melody stolen
in the old country
you don't sue a stranger
for singing along
I am the unoriginal individual
masterpiece assembled
from second... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 13, 2025
Outram, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6577 of my daily journal.
Steve Skafte - Land That Love Forgot
YouTube video by Steve Skafte
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I am the folk
song forgiven
for the melody stolen
in the old country
you don't sue a stranger
for singing along
I am the unoriginal individual
masterpiece assembled
from second... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 13, 2025
Outram, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6577 of my daily journal.
song forgiven
for the melody stolen
in the old country
you don't sue a stranger
for singing along
I am the unoriginal individual
masterpiece assembled
from second... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 13, 2025
Outram, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6577 of my daily journal.
ENTER A LIMBO —— I first passed this way two decades ago, wandering back roads where asphalt turns to dirt. I visited a vacant homestead around the corner that disappear... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 12, 2025
Victoria Harbour, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6576 of my daily journal.
November 12, 2025
Victoria Harbour, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6576 of my daily journal.
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
ENTER A LIMBO —— I first passed this way two decades ago, wandering back roads where asphalt turns to dirt. I visited a vacant homestead around the corner that disappear... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 12, 2025
Victoria Harbour, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6576 of my daily journal.
November 12, 2025
Victoria Harbour, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6576 of my daily journal.
I'LL BE BY THE END —— There's little I find more beautiful than a half-dead tree still living. It's a reminder that the latter is really all that matters. I've known a... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 12, 2025
Victoria Harbour, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6576 of my daily journal.
November 12, 2025
Victoria Harbour, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6576 of my daily journal.
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I'LL BE BY THE END —— There's little I find more beautiful than a half-dead tree still living. It's a reminder that the latter is really all that matters. I've known a... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 12, 2025
Victoria Harbour, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6576 of my daily journal.
November 12, 2025
Victoria Harbour, Nova Scotia
Year 19, Day 6576 of my daily journal.
ALREADY HISTORY —— Around the middle of last century, when a lot of rural roads were being modernized, straightening sharp curves to boost speeds was typical. But on these sleep... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 11, 2025
Welsford, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6575 of my daily journal.
November 11, 2025
Welsford, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6575 of my daily journal.
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
ALREADY HISTORY —— Around the middle of last century, when a lot of rural roads were being modernized, straightening sharp curves to boost speeds was typical. But on these sleep... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 11, 2025
Welsford, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6575 of my daily journal.
November 11, 2025
Welsford, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6575 of my daily journal.
END WOULD NEVER —— In a way, every year for me ends on November 11. That's because November 12, 2007 was the starting point of my uninterrupted daily journal. As I always say... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 11, 2025
Welsford, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6575 of my daily journal.
November 11, 2025
Welsford, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6575 of my daily journal.
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
END WOULD NEVER —— In a way, every year for me ends on November 11. That's because November 12, 2007 was the starting point of my uninterrupted daily journal. As I always say... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 11, 2025
Welsford, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6575 of my daily journal.
November 11, 2025
Welsford, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6575 of my daily journal.
NOT USING IT —— I'll often know nothing about most of the sights I see. The nature of exploring is that those with answers are often dead or far away. This little shack was built... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 10, 2025
Perotte, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6574 of my daily journal.
November 10, 2025
Perotte, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6574 of my daily journal.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
NOT USING IT —— I'll often know nothing about most of the sights I see. The nature of exploring is that those with answers are often dead or far away. This little shack was built... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 10, 2025
Perotte, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6574 of my daily journal.
November 10, 2025
Perotte, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6574 of my daily journal.
STRANGER MIRROR
I am the blue bruise baby
I am the skinned knee kid
every time I feel like getting older
someone says: "didn't you just begin?"
I'm a born bonfire in the rain... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 10, 2025
Perotte, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6574 of my daily journal.
I am the blue bruise baby
I am the skinned knee kid
every time I feel like getting older
someone says: "didn't you just begin?"
I'm a born bonfire in the rain... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 10, 2025
Perotte, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6574 of my daily journal.
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
STRANGER MIRROR
I am the blue bruise baby
I am the skinned knee kid
every time I feel like getting older
someone says: "didn't you just begin?"
I'm a born bonfire in the rain... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 10, 2025
Perotte, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6574 of my daily journal.
I am the blue bruise baby
I am the skinned knee kid
every time I feel like getting older
someone says: "didn't you just begin?"
I'm a born bonfire in the rain... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 10, 2025
Perotte, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6574 of my daily journal.
Here's a list of movies that have inspired my work the most! How many of these have you seen? I'd love to know!
Quiet, Personal Movies
All my greatest inspirations have always been movies. From an early age, I was drawn to those that told a slow story, more about feelings than facts, everything happening easy enough to notice. A coup...
www.imdb.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Here's a list of movies that have inspired my work the most! How many of these have you seen? I'd love to know!
I'm a firm believer that the dead don't deserve secrets. Whatever they left with the living now belongs behind — their stories are now our stories. Their joy and heartache, the wrong they did and right. Unwilling or not, it all was willed to us. As those who carry the weight, sharing is up to us.
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I'm a firm believer that the dead don't deserve secrets. Whatever they left with the living now belongs behind — their stories are now our stories. Their joy and heartache, the wrong they did and right. Unwilling or not, it all was willed to us. As those who carry the weight, sharing is up to us.
THE SECOND HALF —— This deep woods scene is typical of a thousand others in my homeland. You could follow a stream like Brown Brook on countless occasions, from here to... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 9, 2025
Aylesford Mountain, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6573 of my daily journal.
November 9, 2025
Aylesford Mountain, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6573 of my daily journal.
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
THE SECOND HALF —— This deep woods scene is typical of a thousand others in my homeland. You could follow a stream like Brown Brook on countless occasions, from here to... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 9, 2025
Aylesford Mountain, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6573 of my daily journal.
November 9, 2025
Aylesford Mountain, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6573 of my daily journal.
USUAL WILD BOY —— Throughout my career, I've often been called morbid, as if it were an insightful and novel observation. Because so many tales I tell are adjacent to... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 9, 2025
Aylesford Mountain, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6573 of my daily journal.
November 9, 2025
Aylesford Mountain, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6573 of my daily journal.
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
USUAL WILD BOY —— Throughout my career, I've often been called morbid, as if it were an insightful and novel observation. Because so many tales I tell are adjacent to... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 9, 2025
Aylesford Mountain, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6573 of my daily journal.
November 9, 2025
Aylesford Mountain, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6573 of my daily journal.
My daily journal began November 2007. At least one daily shot since the start has been a self-portrait, because it was the art form that made me most uncomfortable. It's now 6,500+ days, 18 years later. I'd just turned 20 then, now I'm 38. Never missed a single day, never will until the day I die.
This video took me 18 years to make.
YouTube video by Steve Skafte
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
My daily journal began November 2007. At least one daily shot since the start has been a self-portrait, because it was the art form that made me most uncomfortable. It's now 6,500+ days, 18 years later. I'd just turned 20 then, now I'm 38. Never missed a single day, never will until the day I die.
DEEPEST EMBERS —— It's been exactly one month since the last new hotspots cropped up in the West Dalhousie Wildfire. It's a desolate expanse of wasteland left, with no... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 8, 2025
West Dalhousie, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6572 of my daily journal.
November 8, 2025
West Dalhousie, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6572 of my daily journal.
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
DEEPEST EMBERS —— It's been exactly one month since the last new hotspots cropped up in the West Dalhousie Wildfire. It's a desolate expanse of wasteland left, with no... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 8, 2025
West Dalhousie, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6572 of my daily journal.
November 8, 2025
West Dalhousie, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6572 of my daily journal.
WHAT FIRE TRIED —— There's something uneasy in the rainslick ebony of charred wood gone cold. It's the closest I've ever felt to walking through a cemetery in nature, which... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 8, 2025
West Dalhousie, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6572 of my daily journal.
November 8, 2025
West Dalhousie, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6572 of my daily journal.
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
WHAT FIRE TRIED —— There's something uneasy in the rainslick ebony of charred wood gone cold. It's the closest I've ever felt to walking through a cemetery in nature, which... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 8, 2025
West Dalhousie, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6572 of my daily journal.
November 8, 2025
West Dalhousie, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6572 of my daily journal.
ENDLESS WAYS —— There's a prevalent lie that you can run out of things to say. But in a world where someone is always saying something new — speaking, singing, or writing... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 7, 2025
Granville Centre, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6571 of my daily journal.
November 7, 2025
Granville Centre, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6571 of my daily journal.
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
ENDLESS WAYS —— There's a prevalent lie that you can run out of things to say. But in a world where someone is always saying something new — speaking, singing, or writing... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 7, 2025
Granville Centre, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6571 of my daily journal.
November 7, 2025
Granville Centre, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6571 of my daily journal.
NO QUALMS —— A drought can't end overnight. Even though the autumn rains eventually arrived, record lows in lakes and reservoirs are slow to rise and recover. On the upside... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 6, 2025
Graywood, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6570 of my daily journal.
November 6, 2025
Graywood, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6570 of my daily journal.
November 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
NO QUALMS —— A drought can't end overnight. Even though the autumn rains eventually arrived, record lows in lakes and reservoirs are slow to rise and recover. On the upside... [Read More: IG, FB, Patreon, Substack]
November 6, 2025
Graywood, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6570 of my daily journal.
November 6, 2025
Graywood, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6570 of my daily journal.