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mjjaxn.bsky.social
Melanie Jackson
@mjjaxn.bsky.social
2K followers 2.2K following 10K 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 · 16h
"October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again." ~ Hal Borland
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 16h
"A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives." ~ Pam Brown
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 16h
“As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.” – Jean Ferris
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 16h
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
Who knew?
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
"Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through others’ eyes." ~ David Walker
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
Happy birthday to the great Chevy Chase!
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here's to October...
A.A. Milne
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.
―CSchulz
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
-Josh Billings
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
Your fingers, on the smoke and flame,
Moved in the mysterious conjuring;
You seemed to call a silent Name,
And lifted like an outstretched wing
Your somber gown against the flame.
-Clark Ashton Smith
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
"All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are" ~ Pharrell Williams
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
Everything is black& gold
Black&gold, tonight:
Yellow pumpkins, yellow moon
Yellow candlelight;
Jetblack cats withgolden eyes
Shadows blackas ink
Firelight blinking inthedark
With a yellow blink
Black&gold, black&gold
Nothing in between-
When the world turns black&gold
Then it's Halloween!
-NTurner
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 21h
"'Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight."
~ Arthur Cleveland Coxe
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
-Herbert Spencer (except dogs and cats :-))
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
"When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep." ~ Irving Berlin
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
"Battle not with monsters, for then you become one." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (sadly, sometimes there is no choice)
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
O men of the manor and moated hall and farm,
Come back to-night, treading softly over the grass;
The dew of the autumn dusk will not betray where you pass;
The watchful dog may stir in his sleep but he’ll raise no hoarse alarm. -Winifred Letts
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
Monsters excite us in this way or that.
They make our pulse thrum and steal lives from the cat!
They're frightening creatures, one peek and you'll see.
Yet life without monsters, how dull it would be.
Your tense, nervous laugh tells me you disagree?
— Richelle E. Goodrich
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
"To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain." ~ Paulo Coelho
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it." ~ Richard Whately
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
For 100 years or so
There hadbeen nopeace intheworldbelow;
The witches stillgrumbling, It isn’t fair;
Come give us ataste of theupperair!
We’ve had enough of yoursulphursprings
&the evil odor that round them clings;
We long foradrink that is cool&nice—
Great bucketsofwater withWenham ice.
-OWHolmes
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
"Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall"
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
MagnificentAutumn! He comes not like a pilgrim clad in russet weeds. He comes like a warrior. The wind wafts to us the odor of leaves. Their gorgeous tints are gone as if the rains had washed them out. There is amelancholy&continual roar inthepines. It is thefuneral anthem ofthedyingyear.~Longfellow
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
“Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.”
― Mac Barnett
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