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Marcia Ruby
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Visual storyteller, Grand River Community Play project, Art & Environment 🎨🌎🌍🌏💫
Crazy for fude nibs and ink🖋️🖤
🌲 linktr.ee/marciaruby 🌲
I’ve been drawing with and for the Grand River Community Play project since I saw their second prologue in November 2022. Now I’m exhibiting some of this art in VOICE OF THE RIVER: The Exhibit at the Princess Twin Odeon Gallery. 

Read all about it – www.ruralcreativity.org/projects/gra...
June 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Reposted by Marcia Ruby
the feminine urge to
Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'
Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.
mashable.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Reposted by Marcia Ruby
Hello folks. Jim Cuddy here. Due to our troubles with our neighbours in The States, I was inspired to write a little song. It’s called “We Used to Be the Best of Friends”. youtu.be/b5jgJZWG7aY?...
#USA #Canada #Tarrifs
Jim Cuddy "We Used to Be the Best of Friends"
YouTube video by Jim Cuddy
youtu.be
March 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Colour of Winter❄️
Soundtrack by Phebe-de-les-Yeux-de-la-Lune😺
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#caturday
#siamesecat
#neverendingwinter
#storm after #storm
March 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Biolumenescent Bitter Oyster
‘You could read in the light of it when I grew it in jars,’ he told me. ‘It was like a little lamp standing on the shelf at home. My kids loved it.’
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Image 8, page 49 in
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake 🍄‍🟫
#nondominanthanddrawing
March 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I admire this man’s art & graphic work so much (especially his ink drawings, which are not seen here). His play is pretty fun too.
PIANOFORTE - My book about the struggles and joy of learning classical piano as a grownup.
I know I’ll never be as good as some of those talented 5 year olds on YouTube. Yet I still practice every day. And: every second I play I stay away from my $%^& phone
shop.christophniemann.com/collections/...
February 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Truffle and Tree
Image 7, pg41 in
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake 🍄‍🟫
Click image for more info.
✒️Drawing with the non-dominant hand challenge for 2025
✒️Fude pen with Sailor black ink, mixed media
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#drawingentangledlife2025
#drawingchallenge2025
#fudepen
#fountainpendrawing
#illustrativeart
February 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Congrats to Sarah Harmer – well deserved.
Memory of this action will always be special. Protecting Mount Nemo was such a challenge but also fostered so many secondary benefits.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WbV1...
February 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Charlie Angus on political, social justice song – and action – with Andrew Cash: “We were taught as young kids that our job was to help the less fortunate.“

A piece with spark and hope from the National Observer.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/28/n...
'Just shedding my snake skin': Retiring MP Charlie Angus is Canada's brashest voice against Trump
Charlie Angus, a longtime NDP MP, is set to exit stage left after announcing he will not run in the next election. But in quintessential Angus style, he isn’t leaving without making noise.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Lure of the Truffle
✒️Drawing with the non-dominant hand challenge for 2025
✒️Fude pen with Sailor black ink; water soluble pencil for sky🖋️
Image 6, page 31 in
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake 🍄‍🟫
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#drawingentangledlife2025
#drawingchallenge2025
#fudepen
#fountainpendrawing
#fungi
January 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Reposted by Marcia Ruby
"If Indigenous communities thrive, we all benefit.” – Ken Paul, Wolastoqey First Nation

Indigenous communities across Canada are leading the way in implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework, blending traditional knowledge with Western science and technology to protect and restore ecosystems.
How Indigenous communities in Canada are already implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework - WWF.CA
"If Indigenous communities and Nations are leading this work, that value system inherent and woven through Indigenous knowledge is going to come out."
wwf.ca
January 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Problem-solving & Imagination
“[T]he LSD had forced me to admit that I had an imagination, and I now saw fungi differently.”
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
Image 5, page 21,22🍄‍🟫
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#drawingentangledlife2025
#nondominanthanddrawing
#entangledlife
#fudepen
#fungi
January 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Voyria Tenella
“ I was perplexed by Voyria. Photosynthesis is one of the things that makes plants plants. How could these plants survive without it?”
Image for page 13 of Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake.
✒️Fude pen with Sailor black ink

#drawingentangledlife2025
#nondominanthanddrawing
#fungi
January 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Plant-Fungi-Animal Spectrum
At a molecular level, fungi, and humans are similar enough to benefit from many of the same biochemical innovations.”
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
From page 9🍄‍🟫
#drawingentangledlife2025
#nondominanthanddrawing
#inkandwash
#fudepen
#fungi
January 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Prototaxites
These giant fungi were scattered across the landscape in the Devonian time period – 400 million years ago.
Image refers to pg4 of Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
#drawingentangledlife2025
#drawingchallenge2025
#nondominanthanddrawing
#entangledlife
#fudepen
#fountainpendrawing
January 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
2025 art challenge: Using my non-dominant hand, create drawings as I read Merlin Sheldrake’s “Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures.
🎨detail from my piece at the R2R2014 conference gallery exhibit last October.
#drawingentangledlife 🖋️
January 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This day in 1970 The Band was on the cover of Time Magazine. They had Music from Big Pink and The Band (The Brown Album) under their belts and Stage Fright would be released later that year.
Richard Manuel was from my home town – Stratford. Anthem for our time – The Weight (on Big Pink).
January 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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@benstiller.redhour.com hey Ben, here’s our revered— I think?— version of Gord’s classic. Heard you taking about him on @nytimes.com pod. Cheers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ozdE...
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
YouTube video by Rheostatics - Topic
m.youtube.com
January 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Daily Draw Using the Left Paw.
The second half of the year, I was unable to draw daily, but I did fill the 2024 calendar.
Drawing with your non-dominant hand is a daily exercise that I would highly recommend.
#sketching
#dailydrawing
#art
#ink
#watersoluablepencils
January 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Ice coverage on the great Lakes is animated from 1973 to 2024 here:

noaaglerl.blog/2024/12/19/n...
January 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Interlude
… And if there ever is going to be healing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding …
Forgiveness forgiveness forgiveness …
Sinead O’Connor “Famine”

m.youtube.com/watch?v=JyLn...
Sinead O' Connor - Famine
YouTube video by Daniel Rodrigues
m.youtube.com
December 30, 2024 at 5:46 PM
A Grievous Angel, some Skydiggers and a high school choir working up A Canadian Christmas Carol
🌲❄️🎵
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9jSW...
@grievousangels104.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social
CHARLIE ANGUS/SKYDIGGERS AT ST. CECILIA'S SCHOOL
YouTube video by Grievous Angels
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by Marcia Ruby
A journey to the psychiatric clinic where Van Gogh painted Irises: www.getty.edu/news/ultra-v...
Irises in Bloom
Tracing Vincent van Gogh’s footsteps at the psychiatric clinic where he painted one of his most enduring works
www.getty.edu
December 20, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Reposted by Marcia Ruby
The Rocky Mountains are by far Canada's most awesome natural wonder, according to Alberta singer-songwriter Corb Lund. Yet when trying to convince the government not to allow open pit coal mining in the eastern slopes, he's had "little to no success." thenarwhal.ca/moose-questi...
Musician Corb Lund on Alberta coal mines | The Narwhal
‘They’re going to ruin our ground water’ the singer-songwriter says of the corporations that want to mine his beloved Rocky Mountains
thenarwhal.ca
December 14, 2024 at 2:11 PM
I stumbled upon an excerpt via the Female Poet Society, but listening to the “Full Speech: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Passionate Defense of Art over Profits” (including the pithy introduction) was most rewarding.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=s2v7...
Full Speech: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Passionate Defense of Art over Profits
YouTube video by American Masters PBS
m.youtube.com
December 14, 2024 at 10:52 PM