Tammy Armstrong
@tammyarmstrong.bsky.social
Poems/fictions. * Currently busy with animals, forests, and folklore * Barnes and Noble Discover Prize Finalist * PEARLY EVERLASTING out with HarperCollins * Represented by Rachel Letofsky-CookeMcDermid
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Happy to see Pearly Everlasting in The New York Times this week alongside some other wonderful historical novels.
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May 5 is Red Dress Day, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Today is dedicated to honouring the thousands of lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people.
Today is dedicated to honouring the thousands of lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people.
May 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
May 5 is Red Dress Day, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Today is dedicated to honouring the thousands of lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people.
Today is dedicated to honouring the thousands of lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people.
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Your voice matters:
Giller Prize parts ways with sponsor Scotiabank after more than a year of protests
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Giller Prize parts ways with sponsor Scotiabank after more than a year of protests
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
Giller Prize parts ways with sponsor Scotiabank after more than a year of protests
TORONTO - The Giller Prize has parted ways with its lead sponsor Scotiabank more than a year after members of the literary community began protesting the bank's ties to an
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February 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Your voice matters:
Giller Prize parts ways with sponsor Scotiabank after more than a year of protests
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
Giller Prize parts ways with sponsor Scotiabank after more than a year of protests
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
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Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.
February 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.
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Fylgja are spirit companions that connect immediately with newborns and follow them throughout their lives, most commonly taking the form of animals. Often the animal reflects the person it is attached to, and can appear physically or in dreams. #LegendaryWednesday
🖼️: J. Bauer
🖼️: J. Bauer
January 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Fylgja are spirit companions that connect immediately with newborns and follow them throughout their lives, most commonly taking the form of animals. Often the animal reflects the person it is attached to, and can appear physically or in dreams. #LegendaryWednesday
🖼️: J. Bauer
🖼️: J. Bauer
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A few 2024 pix.
I don't hike as I once did due to how Long Covid has changed my health, but still try to get out. Mother Black Bear w/3 cubs, a 2.5 year old bear cub on it's own, a bull moose & a cow moose.
All in Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
© Michel JS Soucy
#photography #wildlife
I don't hike as I once did due to how Long Covid has changed my health, but still try to get out. Mother Black Bear w/3 cubs, a 2.5 year old bear cub on it's own, a bull moose & a cow moose.
All in Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
© Michel JS Soucy
#photography #wildlife
December 29, 2024 at 6:28 AM
A few 2024 pix.
I don't hike as I once did due to how Long Covid has changed my health, but still try to get out. Mother Black Bear w/3 cubs, a 2.5 year old bear cub on it's own, a bull moose & a cow moose.
All in Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
© Michel JS Soucy
#photography #wildlife
I don't hike as I once did due to how Long Covid has changed my health, but still try to get out. Mother Black Bear w/3 cubs, a 2.5 year old bear cub on it's own, a bull moose & a cow moose.
All in Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
© Michel JS Soucy
#photography #wildlife
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Happy to see Pearly Everlasting in The New York Times this week alongside some other wonderful historical novels.
December 15, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Happy to see Pearly Everlasting in The New York Times this week alongside some other wonderful historical novels.
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love’s austere and lonely offices
Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’
Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’
December 8, 2024 at 11:51 AM
love’s austere and lonely offices
Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’
Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’
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We're on Bluesky 🎉
We're a European partnership project dedicated to Scottish wildcat conservation and recovery. We aim to prevent the extinction of wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild, while mitigating the threats they face 🐾
Follow to find out more 😺
We're a European partnership project dedicated to Scottish wildcat conservation and recovery. We aim to prevent the extinction of wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild, while mitigating the threats they face 🐾
Follow to find out more 😺
November 21, 2024 at 4:55 PM
We're on Bluesky 🎉
We're a European partnership project dedicated to Scottish wildcat conservation and recovery. We aim to prevent the extinction of wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild, while mitigating the threats they face 🐾
Follow to find out more 😺
We're a European partnership project dedicated to Scottish wildcat conservation and recovery. We aim to prevent the extinction of wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild, while mitigating the threats they face 🐾
Follow to find out more 😺
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Krampus loves you.
🎨 J. E. Larson
🎨 J. E. Larson
December 8, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Krampus loves you.
🎨 J. E. Larson
🎨 J. E. Larson
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The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages...
8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
December 5, 2024 at 2:44 PM
The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages...
8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
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November 28, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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The Keeper of the Boneyard is 75 years old today. Happy birthday, Tom:
Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em.
Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em.
December 7, 2024 at 1:22 PM
The Keeper of the Boneyard is 75 years old today. Happy birthday, Tom:
Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em.
Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em.
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"Tigers can generate wind, dragons can summon rain(虎能生風，龍能喚雨)."
In ancient #China, #dragons were considered divine beings who controlled water sources and rainfall. During droughts, people would conduct rain-praying ceremonies, beseeching the dragon deity to bring rain to nourish the fields and 1/3
In ancient #China, #dragons were considered divine beings who controlled water sources and rainfall. During droughts, people would conduct rain-praying ceremonies, beseeching the dragon deity to bring rain to nourish the fields and 1/3
December 6, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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Montreal to shine with 15th beam in tribute to all murdered women on Polytechnique anniversary #EcolePolytechnique #Montreal #Quebec #qcpoli
Commemoration comes day after Ottawa announced new gun control measures
Link: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Commemoration comes day after Ottawa announced new gun control measures
Link: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
December 6, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Montreal to shine with 15th beam in tribute to all murdered women on Polytechnique anniversary #EcolePolytechnique #Montreal #Quebec #qcpoli
Commemoration comes day after Ottawa announced new gun control measures
Link: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Commemoration comes day after Ottawa announced new gun control measures
Link: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Advent window 5th December.
The White Rabbit.
I made this for a wonderful Alice exhibition we had at the much missed blue ginger gallery in autumn 2017. It was a particularly fabulous event and I made many pieces.
The White Rabbit.
I made this for a wonderful Alice exhibition we had at the much missed blue ginger gallery in autumn 2017. It was a particularly fabulous event and I made many pieces.
December 5, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Advent window 5th December.
The White Rabbit.
I made this for a wonderful Alice exhibition we had at the much missed blue ginger gallery in autumn 2017. It was a particularly fabulous event and I made many pieces.
The White Rabbit.
I made this for a wonderful Alice exhibition we had at the much missed blue ginger gallery in autumn 2017. It was a particularly fabulous event and I made many pieces.
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"Cold, delicately as the dark snow
A fox's nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now
Sets neat prints into the snow
Between trees, and warily a lame
Shadow lags by stump and in hollow
Of a body that is bold to come"
The Thought Fox, Ted Hughes
A fox's nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now
Sets neat prints into the snow
Between trees, and warily a lame
Shadow lags by stump and in hollow
Of a body that is bold to come"
The Thought Fox, Ted Hughes
Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical! 🦊 Oxford -
🎞️ from: @EleonoraSberg
🎞️ from: @EleonoraSberg
November 19, 2024 at 8:09 PM
"Cold, delicately as the dark snow
A fox's nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now
Sets neat prints into the snow
Between trees, and warily a lame
Shadow lags by stump and in hollow
Of a body that is bold to come"
The Thought Fox, Ted Hughes
A fox's nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now
Sets neat prints into the snow
Between trees, and warily a lame
Shadow lags by stump and in hollow
Of a body that is bold to come"
The Thought Fox, Ted Hughes
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400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us
November 28, 2024 at 4:10 PM
400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us
"back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging . . . we are saying thank you . . ."
![Thanks W.S. Merwin /Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you/we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings/we are running out of the glass rooms/with our mouths full of food to look at the sky/and say thank you/we are standing by the water thanking it/standing by the windows looking out/in our directions//back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging/after funerals we are saying thank you/after the news of the dead/whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you//over telephones we are saying thank you/in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators/remembering wars and the police at the door/and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you/in the banks we are saying thank you/in the faces of the officials and the rich/and of all who will never change/we go on saying thank you thank you
[Last stanza in the next post]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oiux6ewo5e64e54jq56m7n6n/bafkreicwc272uvxdcesuaofyx3l3tfxekrc3kwmkhuipx44gap5h3z2abu@jpeg)
November 28, 2024 at 1:55 AM
"back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging . . . we are saying thank you . . ."
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The ALCQ is new here, but has existed since 1975. Dedicated to promoting research, teaching, knowledge, literary criticism and theory related to Canadian and Quebec literature, the ALCQ facilitates intellectual exchanges in French and English.
November 21, 2024 at 12:15 AM
The ALCQ is new here, but has existed since 1975. Dedicated to promoting research, teaching, knowledge, literary criticism and theory related to Canadian and Quebec literature, the ALCQ facilitates intellectual exchanges in French and English.