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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road

@leslieek.bsky.social
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I’m a retired minister of The United Church of Canada, fascinated by astronomy, geology, fungi, and committed to social and racial justice. Unknown roads thrill me.

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is really quite astonishing. A butterfly migrating from Manitoba to Mexico in 40 days. Amazing! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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1st of 29 monarch butterflies tagged on Canadian Prairies reaches Mexico after perilous migration | CBC News
The first of more than two dozen endangered monarch butterflies tagged with radio trackers on the Prairies this summer has made it to Mexico to overwinter, a mere five weeks after fluttering off from ...
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#fungifriday not much to see on my walk today but I like what I saw.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a rather old slime mold.
a globular rather metallic growth on dead wood with a white base.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#thisisaboutlife#cancer#faith So my niece wanted to know why I got cancer when I work for God. I am a minister. God has nothing to do with developing cancer but everything to do with having the courage to do what is needed and keep on living. It rains on all indiscriminately as does cancer.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Completely unexpected. I only saw this a few minutes ago. No idea when it emerged. No idea what it is cause it isn't the normal flower pot mushroom. #FungusSunday
small yellow gilled mushroom growing on orchid mulch with a tiny bromalid.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Went for a walk today. The forest is dry but i found some lovelys #fungi.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Went for a walk today. The forest is dry but i found some lovelys #fungi.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Completely unexpected. I only saw this a few minutes ago. No idea when it emerged. No idea what it is cause it isn't the normal flower pot mushroom. #FungusSunday
small yellow gilled mushroom growing on orchid mulch with a tiny bromalid.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#fungi friendsAn unexpected find on my walk in town along the verge and under cedars in Bobcaygeon ON CANADA.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Night Sky on Mars as seen from NASA Curiosity Rover.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
parasites #fungfriday
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
from a walk in the woods and surrounds today. some edible and some not. can you identify then?
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
#thisisaboutlife #cancer#faith Two years before my cancer diagnosis I felt a longing to embrace death. Some family experiences broke my heart and almost broke my spirit. I dreamed blood flowed from my breasts. Not much commitment to life. I pray to be faithful to my God given life.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Leslie Elizabeth King (@leslieelizabethking)
#thisisaboutlife #cancer #faith A year ago I published the story of how cancer gave my life back to me. Here is the first of some excerpts. “My niece asked ‘Why did Auntie Leslie get cancer? She w...
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
birds nest fungus.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Fifty years ago when I was married with a baby our weekly grocery bill was $10. Yesterday I bought 1 normal bag of apples for $9.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What is mysticism? Is it a vision, a voice, an experience? Is it limited to a specific time and place? Or is it a response to an unexpected experience? Is it a relationship? Let's chat.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I was a Beta tester for Gander Social and think an all Canadian social network is a necessary idea but I'm usually at a loss about how to make things work. So I ended up unable to transition to it when it went public. i don't know how to get back in. Verification is ugly. help.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Leslie Elizabeth King (@leslieelizabethking)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/widlfires-smoke-air-quality-michigan-congress-republicans-9.7272538 Again?! Really. Don’t these people understand that the air and wind know no borders? Grow up!
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Collins Bay Ontario on fire.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What happened in Newfoundland? In May I drove to Newfoundland from Ontario. 8511 km return trip. Aside from the disintegration of my Fitbit I came home with lots of stuff and a strong visual and emotional connection. Jewelry and fossils. Rocks.
a split black sedimentary rock with the impression of a long segmented sea dwelling creature.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
My Fitbit the dust. Cracked the corner and dust got in.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
not sure what this is. growing under cedar trees south central Ontario.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Meet the author at Chapters in Peterborough went well and I'll do it again.
Leslie Elizabeth King and her book this is about life and intimate story of Cancer from the turn-of-the-century to COVID-19 sitting in chapters bookstore Peterborough and having a really good time.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Sunday 22 Feb I'm the author you can meet at Chapters in Peterborough ON at 11 am. The book? This is About Life: An Intimate Story Of Cancer From The Turn Of The Century To Covid-19. Straight from my Journals. See you there.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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ADHD Academic (@canadianadhdacademic)
I do everything in Apple Pages, Keynote and Numbers, and use the Ukrainian PDF Expert for my PDFs. My cloud storage is sync.com, which is Canadian and has geographically Canadian servers. I’m also ve...
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Arlene Dickinson (@arlenedickinson)
If you’re wondering what you as a Canadian can do right now, do this. Tell your MP you expect 🇨🇦 to stand firm. Call. Write. Be very clear. Tell them you will back a tough stance on trade & sovereign...
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Thank you to everyone for posting these pictures. They make me smile on a cold, wet, chilly day that has seen snow, sleet, fog and rain in southern Ontario. Your posts take me back to my foraging and exploring days in northern Manitoba. And may all of you enjoy this holy season.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I think the idea of an Advent Art Calendar is wonderful. Here is a collage I made of many of the fungal drawings I did across Canada.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
As much as an oncologist will say - I have graduated from Cancer! The reality of that thrills me, shakes me. I want to dance and sing and twirl about. Thank you to everyone who has prayed for me, made me laugh, put up with my obsession with cancer, and used medical skills.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
a successful fungal search in my sister's back yard. Wolf's Milk Slime Mould and a mystery fungus I can't identify. Southern Ontario.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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This Is About Life
Meditation on a Wasp
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
found in Snowdon Wetland Conservation Park, Minden Hills ON.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Thought I lost everything due to an update but now it's back and again I don't know why. Is there any point in trying to use this app? I feel like I'm in kindergarden and trying to learn the alphabet. Must be an age thing.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
emerging boulders, branches, holes and frost heaves. Surface soft. Note to self: do not take a city car on an ATV trail. But I got turned around where someone had stored a large boat on a gravel bed. Big smile. Next I went to a proper conservation area with a real road. Lesson learned.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Old Woman on the Road drove on known roads today to find a place in the forest to get beyond the edge of her skin. The first trail off the known road was fascinating and clearly marked "Road not maintained. Use at own risk". It meant it. This Old Woman does not back up well. Narrow road, soft edges
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Happy day today. The temperature is cool. The sun is shining. Kent Bookstore in Lindsay, ON has taken 5 yes 5! of my books on consignment. The Gallery in bobcaygeon has 2, Kinmount Artisans' Marketplace has 6, and Masters Book Store in Haliburton Village bought 3 outright! Yahoo!
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This Old Woman wanted to drive to Newfoundland and Labrador this summer but getting my book published, learning how to promote it pushing past my insecurity, plus heat waves and forest fires, meant I had to stay home (more or less). But Haliburton forests - Wow!
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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This Is About Life | Leslie Elizabeth King | Substack
This Is About Life is a book that started out being about cancer but revealed itself to be about persistent life. LIFE is the core of who we are. Discover it. Uncover it. Free it from domestication. L...
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A small forest fire is 20km north of where I live. The last size reported is 27 hectares. I spoke with a friend in Thompson MB last night and their fire 7 km away was 18,000 hectares. The numbers are always changing as the fires burn. The smoke goes every where.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Amazing what one can find walking in the woods!
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The launch of This Is About Life was lots of fun Many people stopped to talk and buy. Even people who didn't know me bought it! Later in the day one woman phoned me to say that she couldn't stop reading it and expected to be up all night. What comes next? Wait and see.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
BOOK LAUNCH! This Is About Life Saturday 26 July/25 10 am - 5 pm at Kinmount Artisans' Market Place Gallery in Kinmount, ON. Canada Along with a Christmas in July art show and sale and Lion's Club BBQ
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
This Is About Life has been printed and can be ordered from FriesenPress Bookstore. Paperback or Casebound. My first published book.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The Republicans from Wisconsin and Minnesota are calling on Canada to do something to stop wildfires and ruining their summer have said that with all today's technology it is possible. Yes it is. Stop global climate change. What is the US doing about that? They are laughable.
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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This Is About Life at the FriesenPress Bookstore
“I cannot live if I am trying to kill part of myself.” Over the course of 20 years, Leslie King survived breast cancer, endometrial cancer, and breast cancer again. In her selected journals, she do...
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Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road @leslieek.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I am getting excited. This Is About Life is nearing a publishing date. Woohoo!
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