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Happy Anniversary, Little Blog!
Last August, I decided I wanted to create something that would celebrate the richness of the world around us. Life feels heavy these days and news and the internet only seem to add…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #45
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to provide us with amazing images like this one of the Ring Nebula. The winners of the Big Picture nature photography competition never fail to impress. Artist…
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Wild About Play
As humans, we have a tendency to divide our lives into the distinct categories of work and play. Work is viewed as essential—the daily effort of earning a living, raising a family—while play…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #44
This Balancing Elephant sculpture by Daniel Firman. I love sculpture that looks like it’s defying gravity. This field guide to common sidewalk flowers. It’s so easy to overlook the everyday plants that are…
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Wild About Ancient Forests
This week, explorers from the Ancient Forest Alliance discovered one of the largest trees ever found in British Columbia, a giant western red cedar more than 150 feet tall and likely more than…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #43
These beautiful artistic crosswalks in Montreal created by Roadsworth. This new map of Canada’s mountain ranges from Canadian Geographic. This street art by Candy Chang that is intended to spark conversation about community…
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Wild About Political Art
All art is political. This truism of the art world seems especially valid as capitalism tries to wring the last dollar from every artist endeavour and AI hoovers up images to spit out…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #42
One of my favourite places, Klikuk Lake (Spotted Lake) is a lake in British Columbia’s Interior where mineral deposits form large, colourful “spots” in the water. A sacred Indigenous site, it is currently…
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Wild About the Art of Hoping Well
My relationship with hope has been an uneasy one and that uneasiness is only exacerbated by the relentless onslaught of the climate crises. Without a doubt, it is hard to be hopeful when…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #41
This geologic map of the moon produced by the US Geological Survey. Now there’s a way to learn about all the craters and other features we can see on the moon’s surface. This…