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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🖋️🖤
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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...
More than three years of storytelling at communities up and down the Grand River produced a wealth of art forms – music, song, dance, visual, parades, and of course, theatrical. VOICE OF THE RIVER: The Exhibit has paintings by Larry Devine and Pat Flood, information on the Grand River Quilt Project, photography by Jeff Leader, a water-based zine by Ellie Anglin, and whimsical, explorative drawings by yours truly. The exhibit itself is a great big invitation for all to partake in the 310-km Grand River Community Play. Ten communities in all, the play begins in Caledonia on July 21 and ends on August 23 in a FULL DAY celebration at Chiefswood Park, Ohsweken, on Six Nations of the Grand River. https://www.ruralcreativity.org/projects/grand-river-community-play-project-2/ https://princesscinemas.com The Odeon gallery is in the Princess twin building at 46 King St. N., Waterloo Voice of the River: The Exhibit is at the Odeon for the month of June
June 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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the feminine urge to
Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'
Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.
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March 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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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
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March 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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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
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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
Biolumenescent Bitter oyster (Panellus stipticus) “The species Olsson had been studying was the bitter oyster, Panellus stipticus. ‘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.’” ✒️Drawing with the non-dominant hand challenge for 2025 ✒️Fude pen with Sailor black ink, other inks; water soluble pencils🖋️ Image 8, page 49 in Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake 🍄‍🟫 . #drawingentangledlife2025 #drawingchallenge2025 #nondominanthanddrawing #ink #entangledlife #fudepen #fountainpendrawing #fungi #bioluminescent
March 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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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.
christophniemann.bsky.social Christoph Niemann @christophniemann.bsky.social · Feb 9
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
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February 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Truffle and Tree
Image 7, pg41 in
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake 🍄‍🟫
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✒️Drawing with the non-dominant hand challenge for 2025
✒️Fude pen with Sailor black ink, mixed media
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“Both fungal, hyphae, and plant roots face the challenge of finding one another amid the chemical babble in the soil, where countless other roots, fungi, and microbes course and engage. … … I tried to imagine the scene from the truffle’s point of view. In the excitement, Paride offered a lyrical interpretation. ‘The truffle and its tree are like lovers, or husband and wife, ‘he crooned. ‘If the threads are broken, there can be no going back. The bond is gone forever. The truffle was born from the root of the tree, defended by the wild rose.’ He gestured to the brambles. …”
February 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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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
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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
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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
Lagotto Romagnolo is one of the most common breed of dogs used for truffle hunting. Being underground fruiting bodies with no visible access, or wind to carry spores, ripe truffles speak the language of smell. “Truffles had evolved to communicate to animals their readiness to be eaten. Humans and dogs had developed ways to communicate with one another about truffles’ chemical propositions.”
January 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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"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."
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January 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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
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“I wanted to use the LSD trial to think more broadly about the lives of the blue flowers, Voyria, and their fungal relationships. …[W]ithout photosynthesis, Voyria had no way to make the energy, rich sugars and lipids they needed to grow. Nonetheless, I learned a valuable lesson. … [T]he LSD had forced me to admit that I had an imagination, and I now saw fungi differently.” Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
January 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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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
Voyria Tenella
January 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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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🍄‍🟫
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#inkandwash
#fudepen
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“Although fungi have long bean lumped together with plants, they are actually more closely related to animals… At a molecular level, fungi, and humans are similar enough to benefit from many of the same biochemical innovations.” – MS
January 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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
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Prototaxites – giant fungi – were scattered across the landscape in the Devonian time period – 400 million years ago. Plants existed during that time, but none were taller than 1 m. Prototaxites grew to 1 m in diameter and 8 m high and they continued to tower over the land for about 40 million years.
January 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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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 🖋️
Trees above, mycorrhizal network below. Image by Marcia Ruby, using fude pen and ink. Why I draw. Image by Marcia Ruby, using fude pen and ink. Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life book cover, fude pen, ink bottle
January 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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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🍁💨🌊💛❤️👌
davebidini.bsky.social Dave Bidini @davebidini.bsky.social · Jan 11
@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
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January 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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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
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Ice coverage on the great Lakes is animated from 1973 to 2024 here:

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January 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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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
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December 30, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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A Grievous Angel, some Skydiggers and a high school choir working up A Canadian Christmas Carol
🌲❄️🎵
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9jSW...
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CHARLIE ANGUS/SKYDIGGERS AT ST. CECILIA'S SCHOOL
YouTube video by Grievous Angels
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December 21, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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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
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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
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December 14, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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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
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December 14, 2024 at 10:52 PM