Making America Great Again

Black History Month -- Viola Desmond

Viola Desmond (1914 - 1965)

Canadian businesswoman, civil and women's rights activist,

arrested, convicted and fined for challenging racial segregation

in a Nova Scotia cinema in 1946 (pardoned in 2010);

in 2018, she became the first Canadian-born woman

to appear alone on a Canadian bank note (our current $10 bill),

with the Canadian Human Rights Museum on the reverse.

Good People, Good Deeds

Sunday Selections #778 -- Colour of the Month: Electric Rose

For today's Sunday Selections,

a blog hop party of photography challenges

hosted by River of Drifting Through Life --

I'm fulfilling the Colour of the Month prompt

provided by Charlotte of MotherOwl's Musings.

This month's colour is Electric Rose.

Here's what I found around my place

to fulfill the colour prompt.

1. Household Bucket and Tai Chi Fan

The household bucket is kind of self-explanatory, LOL.

My tai chi fan has a beautiful pink peony on it.

Here's the fan opened wide for a better view.

Back in the day when I was doing an extensive tai chi practice,

I used this in a "tai chi kung fu fan" routine.

If you'd like to know more about that, click here.

2. T-shirt and Nightie

I don't usually wear a lot of pink

(too girly-girl for me), so these are

the only two clothing items I have in that colour.

I never attended or got a degree from the U of A,

but I worked there for quite a few years in a legal think tank.

I love the pink (and black) kitties on the nightie!

Its background colour is actually a very light pink too,

but it doesn't really show up in the photo.

This nightie is as old as the bloody hills

but I keep holding on to it for some reason.

Oh, who am I fooling? KITTIES!

[Photos © Debra She Who Seeks, 2026]

Bad Bunny! BAD BUNNY!

No, not THAT Bad Bunny!

THIS Bad Bunny!

I don't give a shit about American football,

but you can bet I'll be watching

the Super Bowl Halftime Show tomorrow!

I hope Bad Bunny DOES wear a

Liam Conejo Ramos' bunny hat

during the show!

What an even more powerful

statement that would make!

All the haters in MAGA

will be streaming their own

sorry excuse for a halftime show

somewhere on the internet --

Go, Bad Bunny, Go!

You are the best of America!

Friday Face OFF -- Silhouette Cats

For today's Friday Face OFF link party

of art featuring faces, hosted by Nicole of

DVArtist, Art, Food, Gardening blog . . .

Before I did last week's light-and-shadow portrait

of the Winter Soldier, I wanted to test

my newly acquired white ink pens and

see how they were to work with.

I had a couple of photos of back-lit kitties

in my photo reference file, so I drew them first.

They were fun and pretty quick to do!

[Freehand drawing on

black Stonehenge paper

done directly in white ink pen]

[Art and photos of art © Debra She Who Seeks, 2026]

And Now, In "Heated Rivalry" News . . .

1. Everyone's a Fan!

The Prime Minister (who is, of course, a big hockey fan)

was gifted with his very own "Heated Rivalry"

Team Canada Olympic fleece from the series!

He's fanboying alright!

2. Release The Fleece!

Fans all over the world want to buy a fleece too

and apparently it will soon be available to order

from Province of Canada manufacturing company.

No price has been announced yet, but

10% of sale proceeds will be donated to an

LGBTQ+ charity yet to be named.

3. Olympic Torch Bearers!

Continuing on with the Olympics theme,

both lead stars got to be torch bearers last month

in the Olympic Torch Relay in Italy!

That's right -- "Go daddy" indeed!

4. Let's Make a Smoothie!

Blogging buddy Sixpence Notthewiser of (LO) IMPRESCINDIBLE blog

recently posted an absolutely hilarious but very NSFW parody video. 

I laughed so hard that tears ran down my leg (as they say)!

You can see the video here on his blog or on YouTube here.

Don't miss the outtakes at the end!

5. Speaking of Sixpence . . .

I believe he is re-reading all the novels

by Rachel Reid that the series is based on.

So here's the perfect bookmark for that!

6. And Sixpence, Don't Miss This!

Those of you who read Sixpence's blog know that he

loooooves videos about architectural styles and how people

decorate their homes. Another blogging buddy, 

Parnassus (Jim) of The Road to Parnassus, just sent me

a video discussing all the houses in "Heated Rivalry" (thanks, Jim!)

The video is 15 minutes long but worth a watch if you're a fan!