HeyJaredJoanne Pettis 🇨🇦
Old Canadian hippie, prairie girl, art lover, gardener, reader…
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Tornados, Old Fridges, and Luck (opens the original)
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Last Sunday evening an EF1 tornado touched down in my neighbourhood, a few streets over from my house. I lost power and got some water in my basement, but not much more than that. I didn’t even realize a tornado had struck nearby bringing down trees and power lines, launching trampolines and gazebos into God knows where, ripping off shingles, and even flipping a car on to someone’s lawn. No, I was out in the storm, driving over to a nearby street to collect my kiddo so she didn’t walk home in th
No Shrinking Victim (opens the original)
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We’ve often witnessed victims of domestic violence that stay in an abusive situation, stay at the table of their abuser although they know they will be beaten again, and it will likely get worse. It makes no sense, but I understand how it happens. Fear of the unknown is part of it, I think. How will I survive if I leave? Where will I go? What will I do? At least here, I have the familiar around me. I have no other options. I am ‘protected’ from the unknown of the outside world.Sometimes there is
A Constant State of Rage (opens the original)
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It is all too easy to be in a constant state of rage these days, especially considering the relentless, insulting, and offensive attacks on us by the American president with the smirking encouragement, no doubt, of his nearest and dearest handlers and sycophants. We can almost hear his craven, scab-picking backroom boys and hangers-on giggling their glee, spittle flecking their chins everytime Trump flails at Canada and seemingly scores a point. Typical of the weak and petty, they revel vicariou
Fingers Crossed; Eyes Tight Shut (opens the original)
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“November is coming,” we hear on repeat these days. “Just hold on for the midterms.”And it’s not just from Americans. From Canada, and surely from every beseiged nation around the globe, a sotto voce world-wide chant can be heard, muttered fervently between clenched teeth, eyes squeezed shut, lungs barely breathing, “hold on for the midterms.” A few short years ago “the midterms” was just a vague reference for this Canadian, to some weird halfway point in an American president’s term, a curious,
They Want Us to Rake the Boreal Forest? (opens the original)
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A few American political nitwits are harnessing absurdity to crank on about smoke from wildfires in Canada inconveniencing them south of the border.Yes, it’s true. They are puffing up their little chests, shaking their bloated jowls, and waggling their jabbing finger in consternation that we Canadians are not doing enough to manage our forests or prevent ‘our’ smoke from blowing into Michigan. Now, I realize these are basically MAGA Morons posturing for the media, for approval from their cult le
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