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mjjaxn.bsky.social
Melanie Jackson
@mjjaxn.bsky.social
2K followers 2.2K following 11K posts
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... and look at cats. Author of Chloe Boston, Butterscotch Jones and Miss Henry mysteries, artist and animal lover. Not a fan of DM. No Crypto.
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 1m
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 1m
“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
―FrancesHodgsonBurnett
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 8m
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 28m
"Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch." ~ Peter the Great
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 33m
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 40m
Magnificent Autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim clad in russet weeds. He comes not like a hermit clad in gray. But he comes like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his mail. His crimson scarf is rent. It is the funeral anthem of the dying year. ~Longfellow
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 47m
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." ~ Albert Einstein
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 52m
BEAUTY.—A sun which dwells in the souls of all... ~"A Chapter of Definitions," Daily Crescent, 1848
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 55m
Never try to outstubborn a cat. ~Robert A. Heinlein
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 56m
Round, misty-blue eyes stare desperately. Love me, they say, let me into your life — so that I can begin to take over your entire existence. ~Pam Brown
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 58m
A sleepy man's eyes generally go to bed some time before he does. ~James Lendall Basford
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 1h
A stranger has come
To share my room in the house not right in the head,
A girl mad as birds
Bolting the night of the door with her arm her plume.
-Dylan Thomas
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 15h
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery (today's Christmas card)
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
"I've decided to be happy because it is good for my health."
~ Voltaire
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own." ~ Charles Dickens
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn." ~ B. C. Forbes
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
“Everything I know, I learned from dogs.”
― Nora Roberts
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
Gnome and elf and fairy,
Witch and ghost make merry
On this last of dear October's days.
~Lettie C. Van Derveer
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 23h
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
-Happy birthday, Hannah Arendt (at this point, I might be happy to see Daleks)
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 23h
We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve
-Happy birthday, Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 23h
Nought warm where your hand was,
Nought gold where your hair was,
But phantom, forlorn,
Beneath the thorn,
Your ghost where your face was.
-Walter de la Mare
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 23h
Their summoners
Shriek shrill with joy
As they behold
That grim convoy.
By potions, charms, and arcane verse
They placed this night beneath a curse
And bade the dead deploy.
-Adam Sedia
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 23h
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man—
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:—
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire...
-Rudyard Kipling
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 23h
Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
--E.E. Cummings, in full Edward Estlin Cummings, was born October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 23h
"Good things come to those who initiate." ~ Susan RoAne
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