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Karin Hedetniemi

@karinhedet.bsky.social
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Writer, wanderer. Finding quiet beauty in life✨Creative nonfiction, photography, poetry and haiku • Just being human here.🇨🇦 agoldenhour.com

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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 58m
It does feel like a piece of you returns. 🧡
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 59m
Just long enough to get your mittens out! 🩵
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
☺️🧡❤️
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ah, I would *almost* trade this sunset for some pretty white snow…unless it was blowing sideways! ☺️❄️
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Such a fleeting blaze! So glad I ventured out! 🔥🧡
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Sometimes you have to drop everything and get yourself to a sunset.
The molten sky, the tideline, and wet pebbles on a beach at sunset.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For those who love the LBBs. 🤎
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A calm and beautiful evening to head to the advance polls for Victoria’s municipal election. #yyj
I Voted Sticker from the Victoria, BC municipal election, and the pink-lit fountain at the downtown Victoria Conference Centre.Orange sky and sea on a calm October evening.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gorgeous, lush writing, thank you for sharing your falling star piece. I also truly loved your Catalina reading, and feel thankful to be connected now. Onward!
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Icelandic word for psychologist is "sálfræðingur". It literally means "soul expert". For short we call them "sáli" or "soulie".
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The quiet beauty of haiku: to evoke a personal image in the reader’s mind. 🌄 Is your project educational or non-profit? I’ve followed you so you can send me a DM and tell me a little more about it. ✨
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’ve been away, soaking up the late summer light, falling in love with the Maritimes. But I am home now, ready for autumn, ready for my small apple harvest. Ready to be comfortably home, thinking about where I’ve been and how it changed me.
A rainbow falls into the sea off the rocky shores of Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Photo by Karin Hedetniemi.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have stepped into a painting. #PeggysCove #journeys
A sleepy morning at Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia. Boats and buildings reflect their cheerful colours on the water.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
☺️ A palmful of stars to you, Lisa ✨✨
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Away on a journey, exploring distant coastal lands, and about to embark on an Issue 3 journey, too! I know it will be beautifully curated and I’m proud to have a few words tucked inside). ✨
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thank you, Maria! It was a joy to create. 🌸
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What an honour and pleasure it was to read for Issue 3 of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social , out on Sept 12! These pieces are quietly stunning. You’re going to love it
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Relaxing Ocean Waves
Alt: Relaxing Ocean Waves
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
How beautiful are succulents.
A planter of succulents in the late summer sun.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
First thing I read this morning at the kitchen counter. It was lovely. 💛
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
All I am eating right now is garden zucchini and tomatoes. ♾️
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Absolutely stunning image of the Milky Way over China Beach, by Vancouver Island photographer Neil Dickie. ✨
A stunning night photo of the Milky Way shimmering over China Beach, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Taken by photographer Neil Dickie.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This morning’s flotsam.
A sea-battered ship’s buoy held up against a pebble beach and smokey sunrise over calm seas.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
That is such a stellar idea!!
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I love your perspective and the way you’ve said this (which also makes the world a little softer and kinder). 🥰💙💙
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I have a shoebox of old photos, too. I love to take them out and time travel. ✨
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sweet morning walks. 🐶💕
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thank you, fellow poet! 🥰🌸
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thank you, Melissa! Such a caring gesture, this mailing to affirm one’s labours of the heart. 🥰🙏✨
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I don't want to count all of the misses it took to get this Arctic Tern mid-dive. I'm just so happy that one attempt worked. #birds 🌿
The red beak of a white Arctic Tern breaks the roiling surface of the sunlit Churchill River as it dives into the water.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Well this is lovely and unexpected! I’m proud and happy that my first ever handmade chapbook was recognized by Haiku Canada. 🌸 Thank you to the judges for seeing something in my work @haikucanada.bsky.social 🥰
A certificate from Haiku Canada recognizing chapbook ETHEREAL WINDS by Karin Hedetniemi with an Honourable Mention in the 2026 Marianne Bluger Chapbook Award.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A beautiful late afternoon by the water, with big love for our Canadian Forces #Snowbirds! #yyj 🇨🇦✈️❤️
Canadian snowbirds make a heart in the sky with contrails, over Clover Point, Victoria, BC. Canadian Snowbirds in aerial formation in the skies over Clover Point, Victoria, BC.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Melissa, I truly do mean this, that little plate (and piece of pie) could not be any more perfect!! 🧡🍑💕
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
That is indeed, the 🩵perfect🩵 wee plate! 😍
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The ache of life choices, unanswered questions, and unfinished stories…expressed in such honest songwriting, so short a life. 💔❤️
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Once, many years ago, I was on a night flight over the Atlantic, and in that sleepless space between here and there, I watched this beautiful film. It has been a friend ever since. Thank you for the music, Glen Hansard.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Seen nearby. 💕
A hanging basket of fuchsia blossoms with a dangling handwritten sign that reads: Birds nesting. PLs, don’t touch. 🩷
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🙏💖💖
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Always signs. 💖✨🌊
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Today it’s been 10 years since my husband Jim left this world, and I was given an unexpected new one to shape. I went for a beach walk, as I did that day, to see what the tide has brought in, or swept away…and to let the waves wash fully over my feet.
A small sea-tumbled agate perched between wet stones on the pebble beach.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
What a beautiful welcome home bouquet from my Swedie! 🌻💛 (Artistry by Seaberry Garden & Flower)
A stunning summer bouquet of yellow and white blooms, made by Seaberry Garden & Flower in Victoria, BC.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Watching night crows with my mother.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Susan, I have no words, only 💙💙💙 for you and this radiant poem!
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“my body is the space across which my entire life has unfolded…” 🌌 This poem is still moving through me, in its rain, smoke, unfolding hereafter.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Franco Pretti (Italian Artist, born 1960) "Transparency", 2024. Watercolor, 35 × 55 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
FIFA watch party at Market Square, downtown Victoria, BC. Lots of awesome Canadian spirit! 🇨🇦
FIFA watch party for Canada-Morocoo game, Market Square, downtown Victoria, BC. Photo by Karin Hedetniemi.
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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 04/07/2026
One of my favorites — Peter Henry Emerson, Gathering Water-Lilies, 1886.
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Another beach treasure today. Hope you can work it out. 💕
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Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I would like to imagine there is one, but I will return it to the sea now. See thread comments. 🤍 Another message will find me.
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