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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Hi friends. I’ve got a quiet corner I’ll slowly fill with Vancouver Island beauty, creative work, home life, travel dispatches, and a bit of levity. ☺️
#writing #lifewriting #streetphotos #enjoytheride
#writing #lifewriting #streetphotos #enjoytheride
Homeward bound after another trip to the mainland, to help my elderly mother with urgent medical appointments. It’s very hard to see someone you love navigate such struggles. Today I took her for a seaside drive, and afterwards she said softly, “I miss walking.” 🥺
February 5, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Homeward bound after another trip to the mainland, to help my elderly mother with urgent medical appointments. It’s very hard to see someone you love navigate such struggles. Today I took her for a seaside drive, and afterwards she said softly, “I miss walking.” 🥺
Read beautiful poetry by supporting Minnesota, and a Minneapolis-based publisher….this is such a hope-filled, heart-full offer! 🌸🪻🌼
#MinnesotaStrong #MoreFlowers #MoreLight ✨
#MinnesotaStrong #MoreFlowers #MoreLight ✨
🌸 Happy Pub Day 🌸 to MORE FLOWERS! None of this happens alone & I’m grateful to so many for their support in bringing this book to life!
In honor of the release, I’d also like to offer some light where we need it most, so please consider donating or ordering a book from @triohousepress.org!
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In honor of the release, I’d also like to offer some light where we need it most, so please consider donating or ordering a book from @triohousepress.org!
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February 1, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Read beautiful poetry by supporting Minnesota, and a Minneapolis-based publisher….this is such a hope-filled, heart-full offer! 🌸🪻🌼
#MinnesotaStrong #MoreFlowers #MoreLight ✨
#MinnesotaStrong #MoreFlowers #MoreLight ✨
Don’t get so used to chaos that peace feels like something’s wrong.
- Brianna Wiest
- Brianna Wiest
January 31, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Don’t get so used to chaos that peace feels like something’s wrong.
- Brianna Wiest
- Brianna Wiest
Reposted by Karin Hedetniemi
'January Thaw' by contemporary US printmaker Jeanne Amato #WomensArt
January 24, 2026 at 4:13 AM
'January Thaw' by contemporary US printmaker Jeanne Amato #WomensArt
Saw a Western Meadowlark yesterday at Clover Point. I understand this is an uncommon sighting here. I feel pretty lucky to have crossed paths with one!
#yyj #blurrydogwalkingphoto 😊
#yyj #blurrydogwalkingphoto 😊
January 22, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Saw a Western Meadowlark yesterday at Clover Point. I understand this is an uncommon sighting here. I feel pretty lucky to have crossed paths with one!
#yyj #blurrydogwalkingphoto 😊
#yyj #blurrydogwalkingphoto 😊
Reposted by Karin Hedetniemi
Morning.
🖼️ Shozo Ozaki
🖼️ Shozo Ozaki
January 18, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Morning.
🖼️ Shozo Ozaki
🖼️ Shozo Ozaki
Reposted by Karin Hedetniemi
I've always liked the 'Bridled' form of Guillemot, but to get a photo of 2 together on Inner Farne in 2019 was special!. #SuperSeabirdSunday
January 18, 2026 at 7:02 AM
I've always liked the 'Bridled' form of Guillemot, but to get a photo of 2 together on Inner Farne in 2019 was special!. #SuperSeabirdSunday
Thrifted a vintage hand-crank egg beater and it is sooooo satisfying!
January 16, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Thrifted a vintage hand-crank egg beater and it is sooooo satisfying!
Swept up by these one minute story bites! 🏴☠️ (and Jenny’s narrative voice is so soothing)
✨A new episode has arrived!✨
She wasn’t always a pirate. But what was her life like before? And why did she have to change?
Watch Episode 4: A Crew of Three from ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’. 🕰️
Link in bio or watch it here:
youtu.be/uzZsEqtg-Mc
#thetimepiratewhowaitsashore
She wasn’t always a pirate. But what was her life like before? And why did she have to change?
Watch Episode 4: A Crew of Three from ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’. 🕰️
Link in bio or watch it here:
youtu.be/uzZsEqtg-Mc
#thetimepiratewhowaitsashore
The Time Pirate | Episode 4: A Crew of Three
YouTube video by jenwithwords
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January 16, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Swept up by these one minute story bites! 🏴☠️ (and Jenny’s narrative voice is so soothing)
Reposted by Karin Hedetniemi
HAPPY NEWS! I am grateful to the amazing Eugenia Leigh for choosing my manuscript SENTENCE to win the 2025 Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest! These poems are as much my brother’s as my own & I am thankful to everyone at Smith College for believing in them! Coming fall 2026!
Image: 9SP IG page
Image: 9SP IG page
January 16, 2026 at 12:47 AM
HAPPY NEWS! I am grateful to the amazing Eugenia Leigh for choosing my manuscript SENTENCE to win the 2025 Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest! These poems are as much my brother’s as my own & I am thankful to everyone at Smith College for believing in them! Coming fall 2026!
Image: 9SP IG page
Image: 9SP IG page
I believe the sea just gifted me the sky. 天 ✨
January 14, 2026 at 11:14 PM
I believe the sea just gifted me the sky. 天 ✨
For all dog-loving writers. 🤎 I bookmarked so many resonant passages.
January 12, 2026 at 3:19 AM
For all dog-loving writers. 🤎 I bookmarked so many resonant passages.
Crab for dinner. 🦀
January 10, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Crab for dinner. 🦀
Reposted by Karin Hedetniemi
washed right up on the beach nearby
January 5, 2026 at 2:06 PM
washed right up on the beach nearby
Reposted by Karin Hedetniemi
I've been in a funk recently, really worried about the weeks / months ahead; so today, I sent out a newsletter that felt quite vulnerable, & the way the writing community have jumped to my support has as always far exceeded anything I deserve ❤️❤️❤️
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Starting the year from the bottom of the slope
I like to think I’m quite a positive person, and the start of the year, for me, usually feels like it amplifies that sense of positivity through its inherent newness, the multiple possibilities lying ...
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January 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I've been in a funk recently, really worried about the weeks / months ahead; so today, I sent out a newsletter that felt quite vulnerable, & the way the writing community have jumped to my support has as always far exceeded anything I deserve ❤️❤️❤️
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/starting-t...
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/starting-t...
January 3, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Yesterday while moving furniture for donation, I slipped and hit my head hard, then spent New Year’s Eve with a bag of frozen corn on my forehead. 🌽🧊 😄
January 1, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Yesterday while moving furniture for donation, I slipped and hit my head hard, then spent New Year’s Eve with a bag of frozen corn on my forehead. 🌽🧊 😄
Reposted by Karin Hedetniemi
Magical filter—
#Delightful view of the world
A New Year's Day gift
Happy New Year to all! ✨️
#vss365 #delight #haiku
#Delightful view of the world
A New Year's Day gift
Happy New Year to all! ✨️
#vss365 #delight #haiku
January 1, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Magical filter—
#Delightful view of the world
A New Year's Day gift
Happy New Year to all! ✨️
#vss365 #delight #haiku
#Delightful view of the world
A New Year's Day gift
Happy New Year to all! ✨️
#vss365 #delight #haiku
“A life is looped yarn and slipped knots, chains and accidents.” I love the way Melissa sees the world in metaphor. This will loop through my thoughts today. 🧶
Excited to start the new year with a CNF flash in the latest issue of the wonderful Prime Number Magazine. Happy 2026, friends.♥️
www.press53.com/issue-281-fl...
www.press53.com/issue-281-fl...
January 1, 2026 at 4:56 PM
“A life is looped yarn and slipped knots, chains and accidents.” I love the way Melissa sees the world in metaphor. This will loop through my thoughts today. 🧶
That sunrise beckoned me to join the fun! Thanks, Matt, for inspiring me to write 99 new words. #microsarehard
And there we are. ONE THOUSAND entries 😲
Please bear with me while I lie down for the next 10 to 79 days.
The huge flood of entries may mean that the longlist / shortlist are ever so slightly delayed.
We'll see how many more come in over the next few days.
Please bear with me while I lie down for the next 10 to 79 days.
The huge flood of entries may mean that the longlist / shortlist are ever so slightly delayed.
We'll see how many more come in over the next few days.
December 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
That sunrise beckoned me to join the fun! Thanks, Matt, for inspiring me to write 99 new words. #microsarehard
A spark of joy to end the year…my haiku debut in Frogpond. ✨ I didn’t always submit, but enough times over the years to make this acceptance very sweet indeed!
December 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A spark of joy to end the year…my haiku debut in Frogpond. ✨ I didn’t always submit, but enough times over the years to make this acceptance very sweet indeed!
Reposted by Karin Hedetniemi
"When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come."
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci
December 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
"When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come."
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci
Took the orange I squeezed for breakfast, the twine saved from opened gifts, and made these little feeders for the winter birds. 🧡
December 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Took the orange I squeezed for breakfast, the twine saved from opened gifts, and made these little feeders for the winter birds. 🧡
Enchanted by this handmade Christmas card from my Swedie’s sister…the love and whimsy she stitched into it. 💚
December 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Enchanted by this handmade Christmas card from my Swedie’s sister…the love and whimsy she stitched into it. 💚