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Word of the year: Delight

Pucker Up!

"The version of you that carried and kept you, somehow - thank them before you tell them what they can do better in 2025."

-@‌ShakWills (paraphrased)

I Like 'Em Real Thick & Sprucy

Whether you celebrate Christmas, or another holiday, or no holiday at all I hope today, and all of your days, you are warm, and cozy, and fed, and safe, and that you will keep your heart open to all of the miracles with your name on them in the coming year. 

xoxo

Cutie Pie

"Fact of the day: Pumpkin pie became a popular dish during Civil War-era celebrations of Thanksgiving because pumpkins were grown on small farms, not plantations, making the pie a symbol of abolitionist virtue."

-@danielsilliman, Twitter

Read more about this delicious diva, and other delicacies in Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon by, Cindy Ott.

Bon appétit!

Spooky Season, Indeed.

"Walls have ears.

Doors have eyes.

Trees have voices.

Beasts tell lies.

Beware the rain.

Beware the snow.

Beware the man

You think you know."

-Catherine Fisher

"To You Scorpio...

 … I give a very difficult task. You will have the ability to know the minds of men, but I do not permit you to speak about what you learn. Many times you will be pained by what you see, and in your pain you will turn away from Me and forget that it is not I but the perversion of My Idea that is causing your pain. You will see so much of man that you will come to know him as an animal and wrestle so much with his animal instincts in yourself that you will lose your way; but when you come back to Me, Scorpio, I have for you the supreme gift of Purpose.” 

-Martin Schulman, Karmic Astrology

October

"I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October." -Virginia Woolf

I Know.

Oh. My. God.

So, if you read my last post, in one month, I've gone from a Spring & Summer of broken pipes, and torn up lawns, and collapsing garden beds, and invasive weeds, and death, and glitches, and a mini neighborhood crime wave to collapsing porch railings, massively clogged downspouts, broken down fences, a dog that's refusing to eat most days, broken furniture delivered on the (wrong) rainiest day possible, windstorms & power outages, and bursting kitchen faucets ... And that's honestly just the highlight reel. It's safe to say that 2024 is absolutely kicking my tail⁠— not necessarily in a bad way, but not in a not-bad way either (if that makes sense).