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Paul Hetzler
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Helping connect folks with the planet through my quirky nature and science-y essays. Dad, arborist, writer, former homesteader. Find my books in Canada at https://www.amazon.ca/Birds-Happiness-Arent-Blue-educational/dp/B0CCZSY8N9
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Paul Hetzler @paulhetzler.bsky.social · Apr 16
if you're a trauma survivor, this is for you.

#csasurvivor #healing #CPTSD #WritingCommunity #Author #AmWriting #resilience #courage

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All the King’s Men | The Saturday Evening Post
Once you’re shattered, you’ll never be the same. And yet, any amount of healing is good, whether a spine or a psyche.
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hoot hoot hooray
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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a lovely shot, and close to home.
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Garden of the Provinces, Ottawa. #fall #nature #trees #city #travel #biking #architecture #photography
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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All Our Relations: life's exquisite tapestry of connectedness
#writingcommunity #author #writer #ecology #environment #nature #science #spirituality
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Our Better Nature: Nature’s Interconnections Are a Tapestry | The Saturday Evening Post
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Amazing capture by Brad Dennis
November 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Fairy Rings are real. Science has an explanation, but they still could be magical.
#mushrooms #writers #science #mycology #folklore #nature 🌎 🧪 🌍 🌏 ❤️📖 🇨🇦
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Our Better Nature: Magical, Mushroomy Fairy Rings | The Saturday Evening Post
These rings of mushrooms or grass can suddenly appear in your lawn. They may look like the work of mythical creatures, but actually spring up from something much more mundane.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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The lion's mane jellyfish is one of the largest species of jellyfish. Its is found in the cold, boreal waters of the Arctic, N Atlantic & N Pacific Oceans. The largest recorded specimen was measured off the coast of Massachusetts in 1865 & had a bell diameter of 7 ft & tentacles around 120 ft long.
November 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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The South American Horned Frog, a.k.a. Pacman Frog, is an ambush predator; it can consume prey almost as big as itself.

My Portfolio:
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#naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #photography #amphibian #frog #herps
November 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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just, wow...this situation is shameful beyond words
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Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”

A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Many things don't turn out we wanted, but sometimes it saves lives.
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#hexapod #inverts #physics #malaria #diabetes #organdonors #writers #science #nature
Our Better Nature: Great Unexpectations | The Saturday Evening Post
From zebra cows to snow flea sex, scientists often research topics that initially appear silly, but ultimately prove quite useful.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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same here! so nice to not even know what they look like.
mfcarter.bsky.social MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 16d
It just seems as if they have been on forever.
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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That's me while working on my current WIP ...🤣😭

#booksky #authors #writers #books #WritingCommunity
January 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Fall colors
October 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Red maple leaves against the white bark of a tree.
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Better teeth through genome editing (not really)
#sharks #bloodworms #science #epigenetics #nature #writing #writers #author 🌎 🧪 🌍 🌏 🇨🇦 ❤️📖 🐟
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Our Better Nature: Animals with Amazing Teeth | The Saturday Evening Post
The natural world is rife with examples of tough, durable choppers, some of which are essentially decay-proof.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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October 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Each and every one of us carries within us the power to help shape this more peaceful and livable world. Together, we will create a world filled with freedom, peace, and love. May peace reign in this world, for all of us.
October 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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neighbours from hell: parasitic birds
#nature #writing #writers #parasites #environment #evolution #science 🌎 🧪 🌍 🌏 ❤️📖 🇨🇦
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Our Better Nature: Freeloading Feathered Fiends | The Saturday Evening Post
Certain birds will lay their eggs in other birds’ nests, letting these unwitting adoptive bird-parents raise these “nest parasites” as their own, often at the expense of their biological offspring.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Cool video! I love herons, as detailed in this affectionate essay on them i wrote a few years back: www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/4...
September 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Kindness will make you healthier, and give you a longer life (not that we need reasons to be decent human beings).
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#science #nature #author #writers #writing #epigenetics #kindness #telomeres #fish 🌎 🧪 🌍 🌏 ❤️📖 🇨🇦 🐟
Our Better Nature: Old Fish May Hold the Key to Longer Life | The Saturday Evening Post
In certain remote lakes in Canada, lake trout there show no signs of aging. Scientists are trying to figure out why.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Found on the internet:

If you think Tylenol is bad for children, wait
'til you hear about assault rifles.

😏
September 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Autumn is a love affair with the earth, where every leaf is a love letter.
September 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Tortoise/Turtle (order Testudines): Shells of many species of turtles and tortoises are intricately marked and coloured, yet are incredibly perfectly designed by nature to blend precisely with their natural habitats. Superb photos taken by Casey Leone. Top row, from left to right:
#turtle #turtles
September 17, 2025 at 4:51 AM