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Theresa Kishkan

@fishgottaswim.bsky.social
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a devotee of essays, novellas, hybrid writing, rivers, trees. 17 books. The Art of Looking Back: a painter, an obsession, and reclaiming the gaze, forthcoming (Thornapple Press, 2026). North American half of fishgottaswimeditions.com theresakishkan.com

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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 9h
As Albertans go to to polls on Monday, a friendly reminder that US diplomats and consular officials have giddily bet on the wrong side before... #cdnhist #abpoli #cdnpoli #bchist
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/10/16/c... Alt text: vivid blue Steller's jay on a wooden rail
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clockwork
This is usually the first jay to arrive in the morning, regular as proverbial clockwork. You could set your clock by the sound of its cry. This morning it yelled for breakfast and when I didn&#8217…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/10/16/c... Alt text: vivid blue Steller's jay on a wooden rail
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clockwork
This is usually the first jay to arrive in the morning, regular as proverbial clockwork. You could set your clock by the sound of its cry. This morning it yelled for breakfast and when I didn&#8217…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Japanese toad lilies for a grey Friday.
Delicate pink and white lilies on orange and blue Mexican tile counter
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Just this once!
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Congratulations, Catherine. Looking forward to ordering and reading!
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Beautiful.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"You must pay attention, you must care from the bottom of your frightened heart. There is something to be learned from this. Find out, tell what it is."
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
These are beautiful interludes in the chaos. Thank you for them.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"You must pay attention, you must care from the bottom of your frightened heart. There is something to be learned from this. Find out, tell what it is."
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/10/14/r... Alt text: a section of quilt in a pvc frame, olive green cotton stitched with lines and spirals, and a log cabin block of blues and drab greens
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redux: “the rough patch at the turn up the hill”
Note: this was posted five years ago and refers to a surgery performed six years ago. I refer to an essay I’d written about our shared experience of surgery — one enduring it, the other…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/10/14/r... Alt text: a section of quilt in a pvc frame, olive green cotton stitched with lines and spirals, and a log cabin block of blues and drab greens
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redux: “the rough patch at the turn up the hill”
Note: this was posted five years ago and refers to a surgery performed six years ago. I refer to an essay I’d written about our shared experience of surgery — one enduring it, the other…
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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A band of westerners seek more infrastructure investment, better access to global trade, even independence. Albertans in 2026? No, Vancouver Islanders in the 1930s! Check out my 2013 article in @canadashistory.bsky.social for referendum prehistory. #cdnhist #bchist #cdnpoli tinyurl.com/58pkxveb
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Free the Island - Canada's History
With its long history of separatist movements, Vancouver Island could well have become Canada's eleventh province.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Change Powell River’s Name, Say Namesake’s Relatives | The Tyee
‘We are supportive,’ says a letter sent to council and The Tyee acknowledging colonial harms.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Thank you for sharing this, @paulajohanson.bsky.social Happy Thanksgiving!
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/10/12/i... Alt text: man seated at a table laden with food
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“It is related phonetically to think as song is to sing”
I should take a photograph, I said, after we’d begun to eat our Thanksgiving dinner. It followed a day of sunlight, a brief swim in cold water, some log-splitting, some talk by the fire. I al…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/10/12/i... Alt text: man seated at a table laden with food
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“It is related phonetically to think as song is to sing”
I should take a photograph, I said, after we’d begun to eat our Thanksgiving dinner. It followed a day of sunlight, a brief swim in cold water, some log-splitting, some talk by the fire. I al…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Roses, Louise Erdrich, tiny oil painting of the Carpathian Mountains, and a gang of rowdy Steller's jays. That's what I thought about this morning.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Perfectly said. Thank you, @yiyunLi
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/10/10/s... Alt text: blue Steller's jay on a wooden railing
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/10/10/s... Alt text: blue Steller's jay on a wooden railing
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So good.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is solved by swimming. Sometimes.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is solved by swimming. Sometimes.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thanks for sharing this, @jenfalkner.bsky.social
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/10/08/s... alt text: length of indigo-dyed cotton, arashi pattern
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solvitur natando
It is solved by swimming. (I’m lucky to have two children who know Latin and can help me tweak a familiar phrase to my own purposes.) It is solved by going down to the lake on an October afte…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/10/08/s... alt text: length of indigo-dyed cotton, arashi pattern
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solvitur natando
It is solved by swimming. (I’m lucky to have two children who know Latin and can help me tweak a familiar phrase to my own purposes.) It is solved by going down to the lake on an October afte…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A beautiful essay. Thank you for it.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A friend in the Netherlands took many pounds to a place which pressed them into cider.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Loved it.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"And the little ferry to Bowen Island, white in blue water, under blue mountains, a wake of ripples behind it, was everything I felt too. That arrivals and departures are long, beginning and ending with water."
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"And the little ferry to Bowen Island, white in blue water, under blue mountains, a wake of ripples behind it, was everything I felt too. That arrivals and departures are long, beginning and ending with water."
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/10/07/f... Alt text: white ferry, surrounded by blue islands and mountains
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ferries bring us home
After the airport, after the Canada Line to Georgia Street, and after the 257 Express to Horseshoe Bay, it felt like we were actually on our way home. We’d enjoyed five nights in Gatineau, sp…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/10/07/f... Alt text: white ferry, surrounded by blue islands and mountains
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ferries bring us home
After the airport, after the Canada Line to Georgia Street, and after the 257 Express to Horseshoe Bay, it felt like we were actually on our way home. We’d enjoyed five nights in Gatineau, sp…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank you, @amandaearl.bsky.social and @thetemzreview.bsky.social, for this review of @jenfalkner.bsky.social's gorgeous book!
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of @jenfalkner.bsky.social' Susanna Hall, Her Book (pub. @fishgottaswim.bsky.social) in Issue 36! ...[It] is a compelling read with a ghostly tone and vivid recountings of history that is staying with me... www.thetemzreview.com/earl-falkner...
The cover of Jennifer Falkner's Susanna Hall, Her Book. It looks like a Victorian color drawing of a red poppy from an encyclopedia of plants
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/10/03/a... Alt text: two boys on green grass beside red chairs
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at the book sale, historian-forward
I was in the ancient history section and noticed the books inscribed with an owner’s name and on the other side of the room, Forrest was looking through the collectible books and he noted the…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/10/03/a... Alt text: two boys on green grass beside red chairs
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at the book sale, historian-forward
I was in the ancient history section and noticed the books inscribed with an owner’s name and on the other side of the room, Forrest was looking through the collectible books and he noted the…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Absolutely.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I know. What's wrong with this picture...
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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BC Ferries Heads to $1.3-Billion Deal with US-Owned Fuel Supplier | The Tyee
Despite Eby’s ‘buy Canadian’ focus, a firm with MAGA connections is the likely contract winner.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/09/30/l... Alt text: Deep blue sky with clouds
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Like this
There was something in the pattern of clouds and sky yesterday that I wanted to quilt. I wanted to somehow find that texture in layers of cotton and thin batting, using Japanese thread, and somehow…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/09/30/l... Alt text: Deep blue sky with clouds
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Like this
There was something in the pattern of clouds and sky yesterday that I wanted to quilt. I wanted to somehow find that texture in layers of cotton and thin batting, using Japanese thread, and somehow…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A kind of autumn potage...
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A kind of potage...
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/09/28/t... Alt text: blue and white pottery dish on orange, red, blue, and green Mexican tiles
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taking (or making) stock
Enjoying: My fall swims. After a warm and sunny weekend, today is grey and cool. I will swim later this morning, knowing that this might be the final week. (I’ll be away for five days later i…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
theresakishkan.com/2026/09/28/t... Alt text: blue and white pottery dish on orange, red, blue, and green Mexican tiles
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taking (or making) stock
Enjoying: My fall swims. After a warm and sunny weekend, today is grey and cool. I will swim later this morning, knowing that this might be the final week. (I’ll be away for five days later i…
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is hideous.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Loved this.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They sort of trick consumers because many of the containers say Grown in Mexico but the company is US and the chemical residues probably endemic.
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