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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 · 10m
“Ye think work cannae be done drunk? Sometimes being drunk improves it.”
― Arwen Elys Dayton
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17m
And back behind those smiling lips,
And down within those laughing eyes,
And underneath the soft caress
Of hand and voice and purring sighs,
The shadow of the panther lurks,
The spirit of the vampire lies.
-James Weldon Johnson
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 20m
"A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia." ~ Evan Esar
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 23m
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 · 29m
Smile, I say, not smirkle—
Mouth a semicircle,
That's the proper style.
~Lewis Carroll
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 30m
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 33m
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 38m
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 42m
To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality. -Nicolas Chamfort
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 45m
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken." ~ Albert Camus
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 46m
“When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.”
― Lily Tomlin
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 53m
"Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names."
~ John Milton
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 20h
Autumn…the year's last, loveliest smile – William Cullen Bryant
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 20h
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 20h
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 20h
“We have been careless with our pie repertoire. The demise of apple-pear pie with figs and saffron and orengeado pies are tragic losses.”
― Janet Clarkson
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 20h
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
"Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will." ~ Vernon Howard
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand.
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
--William Butler Yeats (I'd run away with dog :-))
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient.
-W.J. Cameron
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Andy Warhol
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
"You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting." ~ Happy birthday, James Clavell!
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
"Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them." ~ Deborah Wiles
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
"I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids." ~ Robert Breault
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks, they are all fire and every one doth shine... -Shakespeare
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