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Very much focusing on the positives today so I don't bruise my face (so much virtual headdesking, so much stupid I'm dealing with)
+ it rained! yay!!
+ the dogs are both curled up on the beanbag next to my desk 🥰
+ it's Friday Eve
+ morning mug of tea was SO GOOD
+ I have berries for my porridge -
Very much focusing on the positives today so I don't bruise my face (so much virtual headdesking, so much stupid I'm dealing with)
+ it rained! yay!!
+ the dogs are both curled up on the beanbag next to my desk 🥰
+ it's Friday Eve
+ morning mug of tea was SO GOOD
+ I have berries for my porridge -
Very much focusing on the positives today so I don't bruise my face (so much virtual headdesking, so much stupid I'm dealing with)
+ it rained! yay!!
+ the dogs are both curled up on the beanbag next to my desk 🥰
+ it's Friday Eve
+ morning mug of tea was SO GOOD
+ I have berries for my porridge -
Very much focusing on the positives today so I don't bruise my face (so much virtual headdesking, so much stupid I'm dealing with)
+ it rained! yay!!
+ the dogs are both curled up on the beanbag next to my desk 🥰
+ it's Friday Eve
+ morning mug of tea was SO GOOD
+ I have berries for my porridge -
Very much focusing on the positives today so I don't bruise my face (so much virtual headdesking, so much stupid I'm dealing with)
+ it rained! yay!!
+ the dogs are both curled up on the beanbag next to my desk 🥰
+ it's Friday Eve
+ morning mug of tea was SO GOOD
+ I have berries for my porridge -
miniature fridge vases that fit tiny blooms
getting caught doing a random act of kindness, and unintentionally inspiring a stranger to jump in and do one too
a productive day on the current task of the moment (despite fooling around with my new mini vases, lol)
#flowers #raok #goodvibes #nature #decorating #decor #threegoodthings
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🐇 The wild bunnies love my backyard, especially after a good rain, because the grass grows tall overnight, and there's so much to eat. It must be very tasty as they seem to prefer my grass to that of my neighbors' yards.
🐇 The wild bunnies just hang out now, in my backyard, around the clock, every day. They will keep a safe distance from me if I take the dog out to potty, but otherwise they couldn't care less. They even bring their young.
🐇 The wild bunnies are so unafraid of me that they will sit at the end of my gravel driveway and ... refuse to move. So I just sit there, in my car, with the engine running, waiting patiently. Then it becomes a stare-off, and the first to blink has to give in. And yes, sometimes they win, and I just have to park my car in the driveway, and walk to the house, dragging my reusable shopping bags behind me. I'm pretty sure someday science will prove that these particular wild bunnies descended from a long and noble bloodline of jabberwockies.
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1. No tear of the retina was found today (detachment of the vitreous is what's causing the floaters and flashing lights).
2. Trip to Michigan delayed for a month until I'm rechecked, but that just gives me more time to settle things here at home first (and to plan my route to and from Michigan).
3. Got the new lens for my new full-frame camera, and wow, what a difference it makes for my photographs!
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1. No tear of the retina was found today (detachment of the vitreous is what's causing the floaters and flashing lights).
2. Trip to Michigan delayed for a month until I'm rechecked, but that just gives me more time to settle things here at home first (and to plan my route to and from Michigan).
3. Got the new lens for my new full-frame camera, and wow, what a difference it makes for my photographs!
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1. No tear of the retina was found today (detachment of the vitreous is what's causing the floaters and flashing lights).
2. Trip to Michigan delayed for a month until I'm rechecked, but that just gives me more time to settle things here at home first (and to plan my route to and from Michigan).
3. Got the new lens for my new full-frame camera, and wow, what a difference it makes for my photographs!
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1. No tear of the retina was found today (detachment of the vitreous is what's causing the floaters and flashing lights).
2. Trip to Michigan delayed for a month until I'm rechecked, but that just gives me more time to settle things here at home first (and to plan my route to and from Michigan).
3. Got the new lens for my new full-frame camera, and wow, what a difference it makes for my photographs!
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#3goodThings
🧵 1/41. @StevenKennard finished the stereo cabinet he's been working on for us, and brought it into the house. It's made in solid maple, with the side slats in birdseye (érable piqué) and the rest of the frame, shelves and top in curly (quilted or tiger) maple. It's not easy to show it in photographs, but the figuring is really gorgeous and looks different depending on the light and the viewing angle. He has spent so many years making beautiful furniture for other people, it's a real joy to have this piece for our home. (It's not the first piece he's made for us, just the first in a long while.)
2. We enjoyed a delicious Mexican fair trade 'green' (organic practices) oat milk cappuccino with a 'superfood bite' that hit the spot! I adapted the usual recipe to include unsweetened chocolate chips and that really paired it perfectly with the coffee. The local shortage of 85% chocolate has left a hole in our morning coffee ritual and this has now filled it!
3. I ran (and jumped) for over 10 minutes as part of my morning workout today. For the first 250 steps (running after the workout) I wonder how I'd be able to go on, but after that, I felt I could almost run forever. Almost.
Have a lovely Sunday, everyone!
Detail photographs in the thread comments.#EllieKPosts #woodwork #craftsmanship #keepFit #ThreeGoodThings
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Saturday, May 9th, 2026
1) Did another donation deposit for the library. 2) Thought about my conference proposal and potential dissertation topic and received a really nice email from a professor that made me feel I am going to take the Indigenous research methods elective this summer, and 3) had dinner with two friends. #threeGoodThings #phDLife -
1) Did another donation deposit for the library. 2) Thought about my conference proposal and potential dissertation topic and has a really nice email from a professor that made me feel I am going to take the Indigenous research methods class this summer, and 3) had dinner with two friends. #threeGoodThings #phDLife
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Saturday, May 9th, 2026
1) Did another donation deposit for the library. 2) Thought about my conference proposal and potential dissertation topic and received a really nice email from a professor that made me feel I am going to take the Indigenous research methods elective this summer, and 3) had dinner with two friends. #threeGoodThings #phDLife -
Saturday, May 9th, 2026
1) Did another donation deposit for the library. 2) Thought about my conference proposal and potential dissertation topic and received a really nice email from a professor that made me feel I am going to take the Indigenous research methods elective this summer, and 3) had dinner with two friends. #threeGoodThings #phDLife -
#3goodthings from yesterday
✅ Spent a few minutes in nature on my way to work. Listened to the birds singing.
✅ Yin Yang #Yoga
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Wait for me!
1. Today was a day I went for a joyride (bike ride that brought me joy), but all on my own. I had Tony with me (more on Tony another time, he's my mascot), but Steven was busy finishing our stereo unit (wait for that one!) and I went to get the mail (1km away) in a roundabout trip of 10km. I had to go slowly through the puddles in the woods as we had had some quite heavy rain, but otherwise it was a quick ride around the block. I gambled and took a road that we usually try and avoid due to the usual traffic. In all the distance I only met one vehicle coming towards me and one behind me, both at the same time and the one behind me decided to overtake below the brow of the hill. The good thing is that there was no collision! The driver of the car coming towards me might never recover his nerves, but mine (and Tony's) stayed steady.
2. I managed to arrange my father-in-law's usual grocery delivery (he's in the UK, I'm in Canada) with minimum stress, despite the fact that Tesco's online ordering calender is one day out of true (book your delivery for Saturday the 9th for actual delivery Sunday the 10th) and everything went smoothly.
3. There were 2 more deer on the #trailcam so here they are for you.
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Happy Wednesday I hope you are all well and the weather is being kind to you
1. Got up early and went for a walk this morning and to mitigate the single digit temps (6°C) I wore fingerless gloves before the sun warmed me up
2. Did a nice variety of quizzing before breakfast (Sporcle, Redactle and Geoguesser)
3. Enjoying the sun warming our living room while reading and listening to 80s tunes (reading Ancestors by Prof Alice Roberts)
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I’m home recovering after a bug, post-finishing my doctorate, post-finishing-school-vacation-trip, and in that in‑between space where I’m figuring out how to bring my doctoral thesis into the world as a book while preparing to release the third ecofiction novel in my trilogy.
I’ll share the trilogy more on Instagram soon; but of course I’ll talk about it here too.
While I’m resting, I’ve been thinking about two things:
1. How to share what I’ve learned from writing visionary ecofiction; not as formal tutorials, but as small, generous micro‑snippets of thought.
2. How much I enjoy posting Three Good Things here on Mastodon.This led me to realize that the micro‑tutorials can become Three Good Things. A small, informal, unstructured series about what I’ve learned so far.
Here we go.
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Three Good Things I’ve Learned About Writing Visionary Ecofiction
1. It brings community together; even when people disagree.
Across all three novels, I learned so much from people with different perspectives:
• fracking / hydraulic fracturing (Book 1)
• medical marijuana (Book 2)
• high‑speed rail (Book 3).
Ecofiction is a meeting place; not a consensus.2. Writing is solitary; but you don’t have to be lonely in it.
Anything that helps you contextualize yourself in your larger community is healthy;
walks, cafés, writing groups, reading groups, sharing drafts.
People’s commentary is subjective but sharing your work is grounding.
Place yourself in your wider spheres; it helps.3. Take joy in the finishing and sharing stages.
There’s real pleasure in thinking about the special parts of your process and how you want to share them.
I love outlining, first drafting, sculpting, revising, hearing the text read back to me, and working with an editor and designer, but also, imagining the visual vignettes that accompany the trilogy. I’m figuring out a visual narrative to share the trilogy on Instagram.
Finishing is its own creative act.Working in a genre that’s still emerging (visionary ecology or visionary ecofiction) gives me freedom to genre‑bend fearlessly.
Book 1 is a love story (but not a romance).
Book 2 is a mystery (but not a cozy).
Book 3 is an adventure (but not Indiana Jones).
The elasticity is part of the joy.These are my three good things today, the first in what I hope will become an informal series of micro‑tutorials on writing visionary ecofiction.
What lights are you up? When you write, how do you define yourself within your genre?
Keep writing and share!
PS, the photo was taken at Giverny, Monet’s Garden in France, on my recent trip.
#VisionaryFiction #VisionaryEcoFiction #VancouverAuthor #TransportationFiction #ThreeGoodThings #NewYorkAuthor #NewJerseyAuthor #MetaphysicalFiction #MedicalMarijuanaFiction #LiteraryFiction #IndiePublisher #IndieAuthor #FrackingFiction #EcoFiction #CreativeWriting #CanadianAuthor #CanLit #BritishColumbiaAuthor #Bookstodon #AmericanAuthor
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a plant now flourishing - started from cuttings gifted by someone special
a very handy and (often) enthusiastic husband
the kind kind customer service people who go above and beyond - they are out there
#plants #honeydolist #marriage #goodvibes #customerservice #cs #bloomscrolling #threegoodthings
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a plant now flourishing - started from cuttings gifted by someone special
a very handy and (often) enthusiastic husband
the kind kind customer service people who go above and beyond - they are out there
#plants #honeydolist #marriage #goodvibes #customerservice #cs #bloomscrolling #threegoodthings
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a plant now flourishing - started from cuttings gifted by someone special
a very handy and (often) enthusiastic husband
the kind kind customer service people who go above and beyond - they are out there
#plants #honeydolist #marriage #goodvibes #customerservice #cs #bloomscrolling #threegoodthings
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a plant now flourishing - started from cuttings gifted by someone special
a very handy and (often) enthusiastic husband
the kind kind customer service people who go above and beyond - they are out there
#plants #honeydolist #marriage #goodvibes #customerservice #cs #bloomscrolling #threegoodthings
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a plant now flourishing - started from cuttings gifted by someone special
a very handy and (often) enthusiastic husband
the kind kind customer service people who go above and beyond - they are out there
#plants #honeydolist #marriage #goodvibes #customerservice #cs #bloomscrolling #threegoodthings
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teen driver blowing kisses to me ❤️ after i stopped to help them exit a driveway on a busy road
a bright sunny day following a rainy one
looking forward to a fun night out
#spring #traffic #driving #goodvibes #payitforward #teen #friday #threegoodthings
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1. Finally found a cell phone holder to take hands free (voice control) photos thru the windshield. (Quzudn iPhone MagSafe Car Mount Charger from Amazon). Now to see if it stays affixed to the dash.
2. Rain has finally stopped for now.
3. Nurse appointment revealed the symptomless nasty ear infection is finally gone after a 10 day course of antibiotics.#ThreeGoodThings #3goodthings #HandsFreePhotography #SmallWins #AfterTheRain #HealthUpdate #EverydayMoments
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