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Melissa 🏳️‍🌈
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📚 Book Lover | Word Weaver
🌀 Family Historian | Ghost Chaser
✊🏼 Gen X Resister | Truth Seeker
💜 Blogger & Photographer: Share a cuppa w/ me on the threshold of all that’s been & all that’s yet to come @ undertheelderberrytree.com

📍NM, USA
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Happy Friday! Today’s reminder is to raise hell and hug trees 💚

Get into some good trouble, if you wil! Practice a random act of kindness… Spread hope… Do something, anything, that feeds your soul and is beneficial to someone else in even the tiniest way ✨
Black and white square photo of fog over a forest of trees with a black square in the middle of the photo that says “raise hell and hug trees” in white writing.
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Finished: Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake. It was just the sweet seasonal second chance romance I needed in an ever darkening world.

📚 45/25

What’s next? I have no idea 🤷🏻‍♀️ Happily taking recs ❤️

#booksky📚💙 #lgbtq
December 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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After the snowstorm ❄️ I love snow so much 🥰
December 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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During! SNOW!!!
Nighttime landscape photo of a pitched roof home surrounded by trees in a snowstorm. There are light on the front porch and Christmas lights in the front yard.
December 4, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Before our first big snowstorm of the season 🌨️☃️❄️
December 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Are emojis even a thing here in Bluesky? Besides their use for feed fodder? I throw them around like candy because I can and feel they can convey meaning when words might fall flat, but maybe I’m aging myself here? 🤪
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December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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November reading wrap up! Vastly different novels, each profound in its own right… Not sure I could pick a favorite 😍

📖 44/25

📚💙 #booksky #readingwrapup
December 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Today’s reminder: Mix it up!

#qotd
Don't spend another year doing the same shit.
November 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Happy heart, full belly. Now time to snuggle in with this cuddle bunny, crack open my book, and probably fall asleep two pages in 😂
A fawn pug laying on a brown couch and looking at the camera while covered in a rust and white colored blanket
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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This Thanksgiving by Lauren Mantis

[Stay safe and sane out there. Hydrate, breathe, count the memories not the calories, find joy, walk away if you must. See you on the other side.]
This Thanksgiving Bless Native Americans / bless their Ancestors / bless the Land / bless Black people / bless Trans people / bless Immigrants / bless Palestinians / bless their children / bless the hurt / bless the hungry / bless the tired / bless the mothers / bless the fathers / bless the queer / bless the weird / bless the lonely / bless the lost / bless the trying / bless surviving / bless hope / bless a gentler future / bless we find it L. MANTIS
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Continuing to make my through TEOTWAWKI, new tales from Stephen King’s world of The Stand & it is definitely slow going (all me, the stories are great). At 286 pages in, I’m 1/3 of the way through & aiming to finish these tales before the end of the year. Can I do it?

#booksky💙📚 #amreading #horror
Picture of the book The End of The World As We Know It with the dust jacket acting as a bookmark at page 286. The book is sitting on a rust and white colored blanket.
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today’s reminder: You are magic, act accordingly.
Nah, I'm not underestimating my own magic anymore.
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Sunday morning perfection = hot tea in my hand + a good book in my lap + a solid rain storm outside + a cozy fire in the wood stove ❤️

#booksky💙📚
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Today’s reminder: “No.” is a full sentence.

#qotd
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Itza by Rios de la Luz + hot apple cider + pug cuddles = the best possible ending to the weekend while the world is on our fire and our country is crumbling around us 💙📚 Simple pleasures for.the.win!
A fawn pug laying next to me on a cozy white and orange blanket while I read the book, Itza.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Today’s reminder: No surrender.

#qotd
You are not the darkness you endured. You are the light that refused to surrender. ~ John Mark Green
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Today’s reminder: There’s no time like the present. Take the class, go soak in natural hot springs, call that one person, make art…
You know all those things you ve always wanted to do? You should go do them.
November 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Today’s (Full Moon) reminder, courtesy of the widgets on my phone:

Slow down.
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Today’s reminder:
Own your awesome 😎
White background with black writing in all caps: YOU WILL INSPIRE SOME & TRIGGER OTHERS. BOTH ARE MEDICINE.
November 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Today’s reminder is to Trust Yourself. Follow your own path, open the doors placed in front of you, keep moving forward.

It’s Monday, only you can make it a good one!

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
A screenshot of my phone’s screensaver featuring three widgets: 1) black square with the words “trust yourself” in the center 2) a close up photo of a bright green door with a circular knocker and 3) a staircase lit only by candles placed on either side of every step
November 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Starting this wobbly day with a bit of crochet 🧶 Gotta finish up this baby blanket so it’ll arrive in time for the Shower next weekend ❤️
A grey and white corner-to-corner baby blanket in progress with a left hand holding a wooden hook.
November 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Just got pooped on by a duck.
How you doin’?
Muscovy Duck laying on a bed of straw looking at the camera
October 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Looking for my next book and, with help from theStoryGraph, challenging myself to pick a book from my least read genre: speculative fiction 🫣

Booksky📚💙, help! I’ve made a short list of options and am open to recommendations! Lay it on me!
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Tell me you have a pre-teen without telling me you have a pre-teen.

Photos/screenshots, gifs, stories welcome. A little levity never hurts 🫠

I’ll go first ⬇️ She asked for a favor.
A screenshot of a text from my pre-teen after asking for a favor. It reads “pls” on repeat, an infinite amount of times.
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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What’s for dinner in your neck of the woods?

We’re having ground beef and bean burritos smothered with home grown green chile 😋
A small harvest of homegrown Big Jim and Nativo green chile
October 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM