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"...what should we do to scare the scarers, frighten the frighteners, shiver the shiverers? What's bigger than demons and witches?"

“The wind came by. It rocked all the dark smoking pumpkins on the vast and beautiful Halloween Tree. The wind seized a thousand dark leaves and blew them away up over the sky and down over the earth toward the sun that surely must rise.

Like the town, the Tree turned off its embered smiles and slept.”

Don't have much to write about today. Had a spooky day yesterday, driving through old country roads, seeing all the decorations and some great rundown houses that looked haunted as hell. Hoping for a bit more of the same today. And whatever is happening in the first picture below, man, I love that. I wish I could be a part of that kind of fun....
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I'm actually worrying a bit now that I'll be able to post everything I want to share. Pretty small on the list of real concerns (1st world problems), but you know how it is. Anyway, I hope everyone is still enjoying this stuff.

"...every town has its resident witch. Every town hides some old Greek pagan priest, some Roman worshiper of tiny gods who ran...
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Remember, self-care is healthcare. Take care of yourself in whatever way you need.

“O Samhain, God of the Dead! Hear us! We the Holy Priests in, This Grove of Trees, the great Oaks, Plead for the Souls of the Dead! We pray for the souls of those, Who are turned to Beasts. O God of the Dead, we sacrifice, These beasts,, So that you will let free, The souls of our loved ones, Who died this year!”

Ugh,
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Long list today, I just keep finding stuff that I want to share. This is so fun. And I have a question based on the GIF. Is Clue a Halloween movie? My three tenets that constitute a Halloween movie are: monsters, magic, or macabre. Clue could sort of be lumped in the macabre category but there's nothing scary about it, it's just fun. I guess...
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“O autumn winds that bake and burn, And all the world to darkness turn, Now storm and seize and make of me… A swarm of leaves from Autumn’s Tree! …leaves…burn…change…turn…! World turn! Leaves burn! Grass die! Trees… fly!”

I just love Autumn/Halloween art.

These two pieces just speak to me, and call me in.

If you have a cat, you understand.

“Do not lose your way in the dark. O dear sweet dead, come home, and welcome here. Lost in the dark but always dear. Do not wander, do not roam. Dear ones, come home, come home.”

This is amazing. Whoever did this little restoration killed it!

Totally me.

You know, for a season that seems to take WAY too long to get here, how is it already halfway over? I feel like I haven't gotten to properly savor it. Slow down, please! I need so much more fall, and crisp air, and crunchy leaves, and weeks of seeing Halloween decorations adorn so many houses.

Apparently, this is true. Crazy midwesterners.

Added some black cat love as well. You know, for luck.

I looked this up, I think it's only a partial blood moon.

“The ravine, filled with varieties of night sounds, lurkings of black-ink streams and creek, lingerings of autumns that rolled over in fire and bronze and died a thousand years ago.”

I threw a lot in here today because I realize that as we're getting closer to Halloween I've got so much stuff to still use. It might not all make it in. Oh well, that...
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