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Melanie Jackson

@mjjaxn.bsky.social

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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 · 8h

"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)

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 15h

"I've decided to be happy because it is good for my health."
~ Voltaire

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 15h

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own." ~ Charles Dickens

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 15h

"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn." ~ B. C. Forbes

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 15h

“Everything I know, I learned from dogs.”
― Nora Roberts

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 15h

Gnome and elf and fairy,
Witch and ghost make merry
On this last of dear October's days.
~Lettie C. Van Derveer

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 16h

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)

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 16h

We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve
-Happy birthday, Dwight D. Eisenhower

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 16h

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

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 16h

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

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

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

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

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.

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

"Good things come to those who initiate." ~ Susan RoAne

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

“We once stood on the shoulders of Giants in humility. We now piggyback on Dwarfs in arrogance.”
― Dean Cavanagh (Morton Arboretum)

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

How at deep midnight by the moon’s chill glance
Unearthly forms prolong the viewless dance;
While on each whispering breeze that murmurs by
His busied fancy hears the hollow sigh.
-T Salmon

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

"The world is only a mirror. You will only see in the world what you're prepared to see in yourself." ~ Robert Holden

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

Here come real stars to fill the upper skies,
And here on earth come emulating flies,
That though they never equal stars in size,
(And they were never really stars at heart)
Achieve at times a very star-like start.
Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.
― Robert Frost

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes. -William Butler Yeats

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
― Chuck Palahniuk

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

I myself have seen this woman draw the stars from the sky; she diverts the course of a fast-flowing river with her incantations; her voice makes the earth gape, it lures the spirits from the tombs, send the bones tumbling from the dying pyre. At her behest, snow falls from a summer's sky.―Tibullus

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
-Happy birthday, William Penn

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

"Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep." ~ Dave Matthews

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

'Tis the voice of the night that broods outside
When folk should be asleep,
&many&many's the time I've cried
To the darkness brooding far&wide
Over the land&the deep:
Whom do you want, O lonely night,
That you wail the long hours through?
& the night would say in its ghostly way:
Yoooooooo!-EField

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep." ~ Homer

Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." ~ William Feather