Monica Kidd

I’m looking forward to serving as a reveiwer for this. www.ipcc.ch/report/speci...

For Acadians in southwest Nova Scotia, the mysterious Belliveau apple is a tangible link to the past Untangling the roots of a hardy heirloom apple with ties to the Acadian deportations

Love this. ❤️ canadiangeographic.ca/articles/for... @karenpinchin.bsky.social

Thinking and writing about protecting coastal communities against storms and erosion, how could I not return to Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach (2000)?

Emptying out the U-Haul of my mom’s household stuff at the Goodwill donation centre today, and the woman working there, realizing what’s happened, takes the last box and says, “Be brave.” At a time when so much sucks about the world, she was just a kind soul being kind. ❤️

I put the bees to bed for the winter. Fingers crossed they make it through their first Alberta winter. #Beekeeping

Driving through central Alberta. Dry sloughs everywhere. Wild.

In 50 years I have never not seen water in this slough.

My cover story in the next issue of The Walrus.

Her happy place.

Oh sure, Canada has maples and larches that do the fall colours thing. But what about the humble trembling aspen?

Oh, Alberta... #freedomofinformation

“We are not, of course, in dire need of roads, transmission towers, dams, reservoirs, and gas pipelines. We are in dire need of courtesy. We are in dire need of a broadly intelligent conversation about human fate.” Barry Lopez wrote that in 1996. If anything, it’s truer today, 29 years later.

Just imagine a “fossil-fuel non-proliferation treaty.”

I missed this in July! The International Court of Justice has ruled in favour of an action led by Vanuatu: countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and those harmed could be entitled to reparations.

Wow. I made peach cobbler and one bite brought me right back to my dad’s lunch breaks from our family store and Hungry Man TV Dinners. You know, the ones with a triangles of meat-like product and instant mashed potatoes. I could almost taste the aluminum foil. What flavour brings you back?

Predawn trail run in Nose Hill Park. I’m eternally grateful to people who have the foresight and fortitude to leave places set aside to let the land be what it is.

I think none. From blacklisting books in schools to this. Who hurt you, Alberta?

What legislated transphobia looks like in Alberta. I’m expected to sign this so my 12-year-old kid (who was born and identifies as female but it’s none of their business) can play school soccer.

Mental Health—on the page, in the lab, and in our community Join us for a reading and discussion on mental health and writing, featuring Clem Martini, Marianne Apostolides, and Monica Kidd.

Please join me for Oct 23 for this bold new analysis of #mentalhealth research and treatment by Marianne Apostolides. With #Calgary playwright Clem Martini, co-author of the graphic memoir BITTER MEDICINE. @bookhugpress.bsky.social
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Bizarre that we’ve come this: a petition for Alberta to remain in Canada.

Well now! Look who gets to cavort with the likes of Marcello Di Cintio and Danielle Groen for a panel on structuring long-format print journalism? Very excited to open the hood on feature-writing with these two for the Alberta Magazines Conference this year, September 25-26 in Calgary.

More smoky day photos, brought to you by the #Pyrocene. #arnicalake #banffnationalpark #climatechange #worldonfire

Found in my mom’s sewing kit. Why yes, those are bullets. This may have to be the cover of my next book of poetry.

Mom passed earlier this year and missed the absolute bounty of apples and crabapples in her back yard.

It’s been a minute since I did any printing, but I was pleased with how this turned out. The text is based on a story I was told many years ago, and the image is from a photo I took in Brigus NL and designed to look like an old newspaper clipping. Handset in Century Schoolbook, 14 pt. #letterpress

I don’t know enough about #beekeeping yet to read all the signs, but the girls seemed to have survived without me for 6 weeks. Nor do I know if there’s enough brood to support a honey super, but here goes nothing!

Running in St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin I spotted a couple of bird nests in weird spots. I stopped to look closely. Art! I learned later the installation was David Tully’s: “I think the long arc of human history was like our childhood. We were playful, cruel, innocent and we believed in magic.”

The Old Library in Dublin’s (16th century) Trinity College is decanting its books for cleaning and restoration. Visiting there means confronting empty bookshelves that should be full. With books in Alberta schools on the chopping block, it all felt a little too real. #banbookbanning

In Galway for a meeting of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Melting permafrost as a place of temporal rupture. Coastal erosion as Gothic. Accretion as a metaphor for hope. Positive tipping points. Brain on fire.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, coastal inundation and erosion are top of mind. Climate messaging around Galway, where the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment's conference (theme: erosion) starts tomorrow. #coastalerosion #sealevelrise