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https://www.cnn.com/ampstories/world/all-hallows-eve-history-and-meaning-behind-the-holiday

Check that link out for a little Samhain history. It's safe, promise.

"Night and day. Summer and winter, boys. Seedtime and harvest. Life and death. That's what Halloween is, all rolled up in one. Noon and midnight. Being born, boys. Rolling over, playing dead like dogs, lads. And getting up again, barking, racing through thousands of years of death each day and each night Halloween, boys, every night, every single night dark and fearful until at last...
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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.