Katie Welch

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stories, songs, saving the planet
websitehttp://writerkatiewelch.com
I’m over the moon to announce that my short story has made the @cbcbooks Short Story Prize longlist! #canlit #fiction #shortstory #CanadianFiction #cbc
Finished making this year’s stocking toppers - No-Face, anime embodiment of unbridled desire. #spiritedaway #NoFace #handmade #anime
I had the honour of interviewing Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson about their beautiful and brilliant Pinocchio last night. It's on Netflix. If you get the chance to see it on the big screen, you must.

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”

On Joan Didion's birthday, her classic on self-respect https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/21/joan-didion-on-self-respect/

Joan Didion on Self-Respect

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”

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On Blake's birthday, his rapturous paintings for "Paradise Lost" https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/02/13/william-blake-paradise-lost/
Aesthetic Rapture Between Heaven and Hell: William Blake Illustrates John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”

“The mind is its own place, and in it self / Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.”

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Two novels called #madhoney were released in 2022, one in May and one in October. The former is the debut of a Canadian author published with an indie press, (me). Beck Wise vanished for three months. When he returned, all he could remember was being bees. 🐝🐝🐝
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/new-releases/products/mad-honey
Mad Honey

Peanuts and the quiet pain of childhood – how Charles M. Schulz, born 100 years ago today, made an art of difficult emotions https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/20/charles-schulz-peanuts-biography-david-michaelis/
Peanuts and the Quiet Pain of Childhood: How Charles M. Schulz Made an Art of Difficult Emotions

“[Charlie Brown] reminded people, as no other cartoon character had, of what it was to be vulnerable, to be small and alone in the universe, to be human — both little and big at the sam…

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Rain in the valley, snow in the hills. Near Kamloops, western Canada. #XCskiing #nordic #snow #snowstorm
Hike near Anglemont, North Shuswap Lake, Canada #sporespondence #Mosstodon