Tanya (she/her)

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I am half agony, half hope.

Inexplicable billboard in downtown Hamilton that reads “Kelly Oucharek wishes you a great day” with a picture of (I assume) the Ward 2 candidate.
Front cover of the book Marley by Jon Clinch, showing a man in Victorian clothes walking away in some sort of colonnade
After great pain, a formal feeling comes - The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs - The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’ And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’? The Feet, mechanical, go round - A Wooden way Of Ground, or Air, or Ought - Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone - This is the Hour of Lead - Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow - First - Chill - then Stupor - then the letting go -
A caterpillar of black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes), vibrantly green, on a stem of golden alexanders (Zizia aurea)
Picture of balance scales on top of a book titled Family Law, under the heading Wise Words. Beneath is the quote: “It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law." - Carry Nation
Text from Men At Arms describing Edward spiraling away from humanity and into grievance and obsession
Flowchart to explain which Discworld novel you should start with
The front cover of Ripley Under Water, quite battered.
Text of John Donne’s poem from 1624, sometimes titled No Man is an Island.
Photo of “Concrete Botany” by Joey Santore
Torn, stained and battered old Pride flags in a pile.
Album cover of Sheryl Crow’s Tuesday Night Music Club
List of guarantor professions: lawyer professional engineer professional accountant social worker or social service worker teacher in a primary or secondary school chiropractor dentist midwife nurse optometrist pharmacist physician surgeon psychologist veterinarian
One year old tricolour guinea pig, Veronica, chilling in a tunnel, absolutely perfect.
The magnificent Humphrey Bogart, as Rick in Casablanca, declaring that his nationality is “drunkard.”
Me with a swollen face, boasting outsized lips, half open eyes and no cheekbones. Not mar a lago face, but angioedema
An email I received from staff working for the mayor of Hamilton who seem to think that the primary concern in a high speed collision is the road signage.
The aftermath of a high speed collision; shows a snapped off 4x4 post with the sign saying maximum 40km/h. Iron fence is also smashed down and various other debris.
Ironic sign saying Maximum 40 Area which didn’t slow down the driver who smashed his car through it. Sign is on a 4 by 4 post and is lying forlornly on my previously vertical, now horizontal, fence. Garden back drop is beautifully autumnal.
An absolutely stupid anon poster calling me ignorant for my correct opinions.
Humphrey Bogart, effortlessly cool in a white suit, as Rick Blaine in the movie Casablanca; talking to Major Strasser of the Third Reich, played by Conrad Veidt.
Video of a weird white electric cat, walking weirdly, making horrible fake meows.
Cream coloured elderly guinea pig in a brown pouch looking suspiciously at the world
Text of the Sara Teasdale poem There Will Come Soft Rains There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white, Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Facebook ad for Bernier and the PPC, advertising a town hall meeting in Hamilton
A lovely grey dugong in a deep blue sea. It appears to be smiling.
Dude who wanted to be king getting stabbed to death