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Sending ❤️ to all my American friends and fami

Sending ❤️ to all my American friends and family today. These words are from a politician whose views I didn’t always agree with, but his final message still acts like ripples through a pond. No matter what happens today and the weeks to come, your northern neighbour is thinking of you.
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#uselection #election2020 #canada🇨🇦 #okanagan #difficulttimes #gratitudeattitude #gratitudepractice

This guy turns 3 today. He’s celebrating in true

This guy turns 3 today. He’s celebrating in true Tater fashion: a big ol’ nap 🐶 💤
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#frenchiesofinstagram #frenchbulldog #frenchie #happybirthday #doggo #doggosbeingdoggos #dogsofinstagram #furbaby #okanaganlife

This year has been a study in contrasts. Early sno

This year has been a study in contrasts. Early snow on late flowers. More free time than ever before, but can’t go anywhere or do a lot of things. It is quiet and calm at home and yet so noisy and chaotic in the world.
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This has been a rough week mental health wise. It has finally sunk in that our little family will be dealing with the fallout of the pandemic for years to come. It’s made me feel really... trapped.
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I remember taking the boys to Disneyland and we went on the Tower of Terror ride. That’s the one you drop 60 metres in free fall - but at first it feels like you’re hanging on and might escape the plummet. That’s when my eldest turned to his Dad and said, “I don’t like this. Can we get off the ride?” Obviously we couldn’t. There was only one way out.
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The seasons are changing and a bit abruptly for me. I was hoping for a bit more fall, but Canadian winter is doing what it does best: consuming land for nature to reset the clock.
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I am so very tired of pandemicland. But as fat flakes fall on my flowers still in bloom, I am mindful of how there’s only one way off this ride. Winter is another blip, a bounce up and down that feels like falling, but the exit will be on the other side at some point when nature is ready.

#kelowna #okanagan #okanaganlife #writerslife #quarantinelife #pandemiclife #2020cansuckit

Barfing bulldog = blankie snuggles 🐶🤢 . . #f

Barfing bulldog = blankie snuggles 🐶🤢
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#frenchbulldog #frenchiesofinstagram #frenchie #dogsofinstagram #doglife #doglife🐾

Garage sale early birds are the worst. 🦆 . . #o

Garage sale early birds are the worst. 🦆
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#okanagan #penticton

This weekend’s news has taken the wind from my s

This weekend’s news has taken the wind from my sails. Was a big fan of #notoriousrbg👑 and her unwavering commitment to her principles. The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg feels like a kick in the teeth during a year when there has been so much heartache.
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“When I'm sometimes asked 'When will there be enough (women on the Supreme Court)?' and I say 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that."
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I honestly was never a big fan of Halloween, but little girls dressing up in judicial robes and lace dissent collars will ALWAYS put a grin on my face.
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The fight for equality and justice is not over, and we are now down a seasoned general. The odds seem impossibly stacked against us - but we know that we have been here before. There is no white flag in our future, ladies. Use your voice. Tell them, “I respectfully dissent.” Hold your ground. This is not just for you or me. It’s for the little girls dressing up as their heroes this fall, and every October to come. Until there are nine, and it’s never an issue again.
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#rbg #notoriousrbg
#ruthbaderginsburg #riprbg #riprbg💔 #equality #equalityforall #womensupportingwomen #womenempowerment #justiceginsburg

Today was a good day in pandemic land. ❤️ . Th

Today was a good day in pandemic land. ❤️
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There have been so. many. trying. times. in 2020 - it is all testing our resiliency in all ways imaginable. But then you come across a moment of joy - a sliver of normalcy - and you remember that this hot mess of life is about so much more than masks, sanitizer and hand washing.
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Two people in my bubble got married today, in a sweet and safe ceremony. It was a lovely day for a couple of lovely humans to commit their lives to each other.
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Memories are being made, no matter what. A lot of gratitude today for some good ones.
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#loveconquersall #okanagan #okanaganlife #penticton #pandemicwedding #marriagevows #wedding

Dog park exhaustion is the best kind of exhaustion

Dog park exhaustion is the best kind of exhaustion.
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Taking a moment to drink in these final moments of summer fun before the weather turns and heralds in my favourite season: 🍁🍂🍁
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Usually I’m filled with eager anticipation for trees that burst with colour and crisp morning air. But this year is different in so many ways - we have naturally spent more time at home, so the urge to cozy up in our comfortable nest is less of a draw now. We have lost so much this year, even seasonal routines must give way.
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Grateful to have furries around to remind me to be in the moment, enjoy the present and play so hard that you collapse at the water dish.
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#frenchiesofinstagram #frenchies #frenchbulldog #frenchie #dogpark #dogparklife #dogparkfun #okanagan #okanaganlife #kelowna #labourdayweekend #labourday

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