Anne Giardini, OC, OBC, KC

@PWB_writer1 Far fewer grammatical surely.

But far less grammatical.

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” ― Emily Dickinson — #EmilyDickinson #ShieldsPrize #LiteraryQuotes #QuoteOfTheDay #BookQuotes

“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.” —Ursula K. LeGuin —⁠ #UrsulaLeGuin #UrsulaKLeGuin #ShieldsPrize #LiteraryQuotes #QuoteOfTheDay #WritingInspiration #WritingWisdom

@claudiacasper @YouTube I think our equivalent is refusing to make more than one trip from the car and so staggering into the house laden with a vast number of bags and boxes.

This is it. My creativity has come to this. Remarkable in its own way I suppose. #writing #writinglife Syrian Hamster Emptying Her Cheek Pouches youtu.be/Lwd00ovIbHQ via @YouTube

@naomiyamamoto @mikewatson10 We just took six of Warren’s to the framer today. Photos to come.

Wow... exceptional! GS would be proud of you Warren. Looking forward to your 2023 work. @Aegiardini @mikewatson10

These are some incredible stories of passion, skill and tradition! 🎬 Watch the newly released films produced by BC Achievement to highlight the outstanding art of the 2022 Fulmer Award in First Nations Art recipients. bit.ly/3EBoaLF #FNA #elevateexcellence

Closing this Friday! Be sure to submit your applications.💙

@Garossino The cure is what it has always been. Compassion. Discernment. Action. Wisdom. Love. And friendship; I’m always glad of yours.

@PWB_writer1 It begs to be read aloud on a short crisp day.

A bit of a chuckle awaits you in the last stanza of this good-natured little poem.

What you have to decide, really, is whether to be crazy or not, and I haven’t the stamina, the pure, seething will, for prolonged craziness. - “Bardon Bus”

I just made a donation to @@pacificautism donate-can.keela.co/pacific-autism… via @@pacificautism

@BradburyCenter @ShieldsPrize What was it like to be there?

#DidYouKnow today Ray Bradbury is being inducted into the The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame alongside Ethel Payne and Carol Shields. Click the link below if you’d like to attend this free event! bit.ly/3NxFFzn #Writers #Chicago #HallOfFame

@BradburyCenter My mother Carol Shields would have been thrilled to be in the marvellous company of Ray Bradbury and Ethel Payne. I love to imagine it possible that all three were chatting together and enjoying the moment. @SankofaTravelHr

Don't miss out on our third and final submissions deadline—open until November 18 for publishers located in the United States or Canada! – #ShieldsPrize @LPGCanada @PGCBooks @AmericanPublish @ABPBC @CDNPublishers @ABBookPub @ibpa

We can’t resist this rifling around in the past, sifting the untrustworthy evidence, linking stray names and questionable dates and anecdotes together, hanging on to threads, insisting on being joined to dead people and therefore to life. - “Messenger”

“What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you...They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.” —Anne Lamott

Observe Remembrance Day in Kitsilano at the Armoury ⁦@SeaforthOfC⁩ kitsilano.ca/2022/11/01/obs…

Irish artist Miriam Sweeney, Subversion 2012 #WomensArt

Here's a perfectly transcendent poem called "The Walnut-Cracking Machine" by Julie Berry. Clever, tender, heartwarming and nostalgic in a non-cloying, non-sentimental way. The poem will reward the time you take away from whatever you're doing to read it. reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2008/…