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Andrea Murphy
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Lives near that river, in Ottawa 🇨🇦. Has been known to edit & work in arts orgs. Appreciates your book posts.
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Special mail today from BC: another wool-silk-cashmere blend hat knitted for me by my sister. 🤍 (My hair is just starting to grow again but I am still always wearing a hat!)
A hand holding up a finely-knitted brown cap. It has a turned-up ribbed brim above which is a row of small light-blue waves.
December 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Nov. 30. A late-blooming cyclamen on a very snowy day.
A potted cyclamen plant in front of a window looking out onto snow-covered trees. There are three buds, none yet open.
November 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Went to Ten Toes café and laundromat this afternoon. Corner of Somerset & Rochester. Nice.
An ornate Victorian mirror on an exposed brick wall. A lady with a little smile is trying to squeeze by as I take the photo.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Il neige.
View from a front stoop onto a snowy residential street. Trees and cedar hedges.
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Pumpkin report: toothless but still smiling.
A jack-o-lantern, freshly carved, with five teeth. Same, six days later, having been munched on by squirrels.
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Bilingual word game at hospital waiting area.
Sign with part missing reads ASC ELE
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Sun coming through now is giving me joy.
Residential street with trees: a maple with yellow leaves and across the way a giant bare oak behind a cedar hedge. Same, but sunnier.
November 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I was only planning to carve the pumpkin tomorrow so the squirrels wouldn’t get at it, but I see they already have.
A pumpkin that shows evidence of munching.
October 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Self portrait with missing eyebrows.
Face of a woman resting on a pillow, wearing a knitted cap and a bathrobe and a pensive expression.
October 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Made it up to the river, first time in months, with some help.
View of the Ottawa R. looking across to Quebec. View of same, walker in foreground.
October 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Mid-October. Anne came over with flowers from her garden, and some plum tart.
A blue-green translucent “Etruscan” glass vase with two black-eyed Susans in it, on a mantel in front of some windows.
October 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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More September flowers from Anne’s garden.
Flowers from a hydrangea shrub, in a dark blue ceramic vase on a mantel. The flowers are pink with some pale green.
September 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Greetings from pod two, where I’m receiving my sixth and last (!!) chemo treatment for ovarian cancer.
Face of a woman lying in a hospital bed, with sleepy Benadryl-doped eyes. She has a navy bandana around her head.
September 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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In the mail from BC today, this lovely cap my sister knitted for me. It’s a wool-silk-cashmere blend, very soft, and will keep my chemo-bald head comfortable and warm. 🤍
A knitted greyish-blue cap held up by my hand in front of a window. Some green plant life is visible inside and out.
September 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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More September flowers from Anne’s garden.
Black-eyed susans in a dark blue vase on a mantel. Sun coming in a window.
September 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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From last night’s viewing: sandblasting scene in Marcel Carne’s “Le jour se lève” (1939).
Jean Gabin’s eyes and nose within a contamination suit. A row of men in a factory, sandblasting, wearing strange protective suits.
September 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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September flowers from Anne’s garden.
A large bouquet on a mantel. White hydrangeas and yellow flowers in an old ceramic washbasin jug.
September 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Oh hello
A big green insect hanging on a window screen.
August 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Almost done the fifth of six chemo sessions. We will get there.
Two nurses at a movable desk in the chemo section of The Ottawa Hospital. Face of a weary-looking woman. She is wearing a pink crocheted cap and a similarly-coloured scaf.
August 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Number four of six chemo sessions done. Couldn’t do it without this lovely person. xo
A kind-looking white-bearded man standing at the foot of my bed in a hospital chemotherapy centre.
August 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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One way to tell how disappointed you are with someone is when you can’t bring yourself to use their nickname.
August 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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When your sister grows veggies in BC and flies to Ottawa with them.
A woman smiling at a tray of beets, potatoes, cucumber, garlic, and onions.
July 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Chemo day (third one). Ian sits at my bedside, reading his book about Godard.
A bearded man reading a book. View out to exterior of The Ottawa Hospital.
July 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Another lovely bouquet from Anne’s garden…
A bouquet in a ceramic vase, resting on a mantel.
July 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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My sister shared with me this morning that the newly elected Anglican Primate of Canada is a guy whose locker was right near mine in Grade 9.
June 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM