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This little dude turned 5 this week. 🐶 🎈 .

This little dude turned 5 this week. 🐶 🎈
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When I think about the last 5 years, can’t help but think of the rollercoaster ride that has been our life. New home, job loss, boys finishing school, pandemic, tumult, adventures, heart ache. Lots of great moments, and many that took our breath away.

Tater has taken this all in stride. Always the life of the party, he offers us giant smiles and licky kisses whenever we get home. The roughest days are always made better when he curls up for snuggles, softly descends into a snoring slumber that tells me over and over, “Don’t worry, we’re safe. There is safety in love.”
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We celebrated his fifth year in the world with a visit to the dog park. This is his favouritest place in the world, and he played so hard, had to take a moment to flip down for a breather. Wish we could all feel that level of joy each day.
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Happy birthday, Tater. Thank you for the blue skies you bring to our world. Looking forward to the next 5 years of love ahead.

#frenchies #frenchbulldog #frenchie #frenchies #frenchiesofinstagram #dog #dogsofinstagram #kelowna #okanagan

Still riding high from yesterday’s visit to @cae

Still riding high from yesterday’s visit to @caetanicentre. As I uncover the many layers of my Italian heritage, it was lovey to explore the work of Sveva Caetani - and witness the artistic mastery that bloomed in the #Okanagan.
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Just before passing, Sveva’s father, Leone, sent her a telegram from Weyburn, Saskatchewan, saying “Dante’s Inferno was the the most wonderful poem in the world. Learn that love.” The telegram hangs in the centre’s gallery. Sometimes inspiration is so clear, it is typewritten onto paper for us. Others, it’s like our minds receive a message our hearts so badly needed to hear.
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The Italian immigrant diaspora in Canada is complex, challenging and full of fascinating details involving family, cultural norms and (breaking of) tradition. The more I learn, the more questions I have.
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This is one of Caetani’s works in the Paradiso series, entitled Presences in the Maelstrom: Angels of Poetry. This captivated me, pulled in as I endure my own personal maelstrom. It’s lovely to contemplate I will be saved by the written word, these Angels of Poetry, to experience paradise soon.
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#caetani #italia #italy #vernon #art #writing #artistsoninstagram #artistlife #kelowna

Had to, it’s International 🐶 Day. 🐾 . . #f

Had to, it’s International 🐶 Day. 🐾
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#frenchbulldog #frenchie #frenchiesofinstagram #frenchies #frenchielife #okanagan #dogsofinstagram #doglife🐾

I bought this for the 🐶, but turns out it cools

I bought this for the 🐶, but turns out it cools humans too…
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#dogdaysofsummer #beattheheat #summerfun☀️ #summervibes #toohot #okanagan #kelowna #okgnlifestyle

First pup cup - think he approved. 🐶 ☕️ ❤

First pup cup - think he approved. 🐶 ☕️ ❤️
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#kelowna #okanagan #okanaganlifestyle #frenchie #frenchbulldog #frenchiesofinstagram #frenchielove

Bit of much-needed book therapy @mosaic_books toda

Bit of much-needed book therapy @mosaic_books today. It’s so lovely that the staff there add cards highlighting local authors, their favourite reads and, um, topical commentary. 😆

The universe is calling… ☎️ . . #okanagan #

The universe is calling… ☎️
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#okanagan #okanagancollege #kelowna #needabreak

It’s a small square with big meaning. . The Moos

It’s a small square with big meaning.
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The Moose Hide Campaign is a movement of Indigenous and non-Indigenous men and boys who are standing up against violence toward women and children. Wearing the moose hide signifies your commitment to honour, respect and protect women and children in your life - and to work with other men and boys to end violence against women and children.
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I walk around @okanagancollege #Kelowna campus and see many of my colleagues wearing the moose hide. It makes my heart lighter, because it takes a community willing to model behaviour and hold each other accountable for things to change.
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The smallest steps lead to the biggest changes.
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#okanagan #syilx #okanagancollege @moose_hide_campaign

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With 20+ years in communications, Simone is an award-winning writer who loves to harness the power of stories to shape the world around us.

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