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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

Our neighbors are ready...

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. -Lemony Snicket

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

The jack -o'lantern chuckled Then winked his funny eye, "I would rather be a pumpkin-face Than be inside a pie!" Jolly wolly pumpkin face You're happy tell us why. I'd rather be a pumpkin face And not a pumpkin pie!

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? ~ Dashiell Hammett

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

If winter is slumber&spring is birth&summer is life, then autumn rounds out tobe reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.~MBurgess

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

The bowl of fur opens one eye...

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." ~ Boyd K. Packer

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

"Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird." ~ China Mieville

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

Between the windy, swirling fire And all the stillness of the moon, Sweet witch, you danced at my desire, Turning some weird and lovely rune To paces like the swirling fire. -Clark Ashton Smith

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders. -Happy birthday, Denis Diderot

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

As Oscar Wilde said-- 'Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.' In this case, I agree.

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

"When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows." ~ Mason Cooley

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

As for the hag, you can’t see her, But hark! you can hear her black cat’s purr, And now and then, as a car goes by, You may catch a gleam from her wicked eye. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way. -Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone. ~ William Butler Yeats

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

I walked alone in the depths of Autumn woods; The ruthless winds had left the maple bare; The fern was withered, and the sweetbrier's breath No longer gave its fragrance to the air. ~Albert Laighton

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

"You are only as young as your spine is flexible." ~ Joseph Pilates

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

"The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind." ~ Theodorus Gaza

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

"Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night." ~ Steve Almond

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8h

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food. -Erma Bombeck

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Beast from world primeval, He and his leaping clan, When the blotched red moon leers over the roofs, Give voice to their scorn of man. -Don Marquis

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success." ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Old perfumes wander back from fields of clover Seen in the light of suns that long have set; Beloved ones, whose earthly toil is over, Draw near, as if they lived among us yet. Old voices call me, through the dusk returning, I hear the echoes of departed feet... ~Sarah Doudney

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. Rita Coolidge

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it! J. R. R. Tolkien

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it.” ― John Steinbeck

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And mother dear, take a sapling twig And green grass newly mown, And lay them on my empty bed That my sorrow be not known. And mother, find three berries red And pluck them from the stalk, And burn them at the first cockcrow That my spirit may not walk. -Elizabeth Siddal

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Whence, and what art thou, Execrable Shape?" Nick might have cried, could he have found a tongue, But his distended jaws could only gape, And not a sound upon the welkin rung... He sat upon his haunches, bolt upright, And shook, and grinn'd, and chatter'd with affright. ~Thomas Ingoldsby

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya? Happy birthday, Buster Keaton!

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"The best things in life aren't things." ~ Art Buchwald

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury (Young Medusa by Jared Simeth... I would swap 'cellphone' for TV))

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of Italy, animals and ecology, whose feast day falls on 4th October

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Everything tonight Could have been just dandy But now the demons have wrath - Cause I ate all the candy! -Charles Audette

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... In a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'. -Susan Sarandon

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]...If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by scotch tape." ~ Dave Barry

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The next entrant in the repellant Halloween treat category.

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you." ~ Rumi

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. ~Augustine Birrell (Edward Gorey with books and cats :-))

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. ~ Robert Frost

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight. -H. P. Lovecraft

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. -Happy birthday, Talib Kweli!

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other - our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That's to help each other, not hurt each other. -Happy birthday, Stevie Ray Vaughan

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am almost afraid of the wind out there. The dead leaves skip on the porches bare, The windows clatter and whine. I sit here in the quiet house. low-lit. With the clock that ticks and the books that stand. Wise and silent, on every hand... -F S Davis (art Carl Gustav Carus)

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The deeds you do may be the only sermon that some persons will here today. -St. Francis of Assisi

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Harvest Moon glows round and bold, In pumpkin shades outlined in gold, Illuminating eerie forms, Unnatural as a candied corn. Beware what dare crawls up your sleeve, For 'tis the night called Hallows Eve. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart." - Karel Capek

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well drest. There ain't much credit in that. If I was very ragged and very jolly, then I should begin to feel I had gained a point... ~Charles Dickens

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." ~ Albert Einstein

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"If you believe that a horseshoe will bring you good luck then it probably will. For if you believe you are going to be lucky, you go about your business with a smile, take disaster with a smile, start afresh with a smile. To do that is to be in the way of happiness." ~A.A.Milne

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere— The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year... -Edgar Allan Poe

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