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September is orange, pumpkin orange, or is orange the fruit the same color as pumpkin.
Either way, I know September is a transitional month. Before the bright days become dark nights. September is pumpkin colored but October as dawn blue, and winter is misty black-- my favorite season.
I did started autumn shopping yesterday. On the weekend I will gather my acorns and oak (around the neighbor), for my home décor and potpourri.
Autumn is also soup season--squash, mannish water, and fish.
Last Hallow's Eve no children came and I had to donate the candy out of fear I'd eat it all.
Autumn spices: cinnamon, clove, parsley, and cedarwood, nutmeg, rosemary, ginger, orange slices.
Either way, I know September is a transitional month. Before the bright days become dark nights. September is pumpkin colored but October as dawn blue, and winter is misty black-- my favorite season.
I did started autumn shopping yesterday. On the weekend I will gather my acorns and oak (around the neighbor), for my home décor and potpourri.
Autumn is also soup season--squash, mannish water, and fish.
Last Hallow's Eve no children came and I had to donate the candy out of fear I'd eat it all.
Autumn spices: cinnamon, clove, parsley, and cedarwood, nutmeg, rosemary, ginger, orange slices.
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It's cold here now. March and April felt so long, but everything else ran by so quickly.
Now it's December, and it's time to look back. Some of these series have been around a while, but I only got around to watching this year (who knew what free time could do).
Here are my Favorite Series 2020:
The Boys
- Broken superheroes and the equally broken vigilantes trying to expose and take them down.
Streaming: HBO/ Crave Canada
I May Destroy You
- Michaela Coel has something that makes her the perfect storyteller for black millennials who don't quite fit into the stereotype. In I May Destroy You, Coel plays Arabella, a young woman searching for the truth after a brutal assault turns her world upside down.
Streaming: HBO/ Crave Canada
Raised by Wolves
- Humans try to colonize an alien planet after fleeing near future earth, deep in the grip of a religious war that may be the result of an alien god called Sol. Lots of mysteries going on here. This one is co-produced by Ridley Scott. Streaming: HBO/ Crave Canada
Tales from the Loop
-A collection of strange stories about people in a town that has an alien device known as an eclipse, which leads to everything from time loops to body switching. Streaming: Amazon Prime
Castle Rock
- Sadly canceled, but an anthology series based on the worlds/novels of Stephen King.
Streaming: HBO/Crave Canada
His Dark Materials
- Based on Phillip Pullman's trilogy about a young prophesied girl in an alternate world where people have daemons (external sapient souls that take the forms of animals).
Streaming: HBO/ Crave Canada
The Expanse
- Finally gotten around to watching this near future series about the politics that follow humans after they have colonized nearby planets.
Streaming: Amazon Prime
Star Trek: lower decks
- From the co-creator of Rick & Morty comes an animated comedy that centers the exploits of low-ranked crewmembers in the world of Star Trek.
Streaming: HBO/Crave Canada
Lovecraft Country
This is a little more controversial. It fits more into my gripe about "black trauma" cast under the umbrella of speculative fiction. It's also not very Lovecraft.
Streaming: HBO/Crave Canada
Upload - a cross between The Good Place and the Black Mirror episode, San Junipero. The afterlife goes digital. Streaming: Amazon Prime
Trickster - based on a FANTASY trilogy by Eden Robinson, Trickster follows teen Jared who discovers he is the son of a Trickster/shapeshifter. When his Trickster dad returns to his life, Jared and his mom become wary of his motives and baggage.
Available on CBC Gem app.
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Do you remember,
The one you used to know?
I'm not the same one
See what the time's done
Is that why you have let me go?
The one you used to know?
I'm not the same one
See what the time's done
Is that why you have let me go?
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I always look forward to October, the month when the world --the western world--celebrates the occult. I have been a fan of witches, ghouls, eldritch, and the macabre forever!
October 2018 was no exception. I looked forward to it, and even the black cat that slipped across my path on Halloween night got me excited.
It was bad omen, of course. Exactly a week later, I experienced the worst tragedy of my life.
My mom slipped from the world.
Every day I wake up and think about the circumstances -- how I could've prevented it, and all the things I did wrong, like being upset she was sick, again, and also not taking her to the hospital in the morning.
I was stupid and selfish, and wished we did more together. But all that has passed. I have no magic wand or time-traveling contraption to return to that day in November 2018.
This October feels sober.
I have all the same feelings of excitement, but they are muted. Each time I allow myself to feel joy, my guilt, pain and sadness stifle that joy.
As the one year anniversary comes up, I admit, I still don't know how to cope.
But I have been dong so for nearly a year and will try ...
October 2018 was no exception. I looked forward to it, and even the black cat that slipped across my path on Halloween night got me excited.
It was bad omen, of course. Exactly a week later, I experienced the worst tragedy of my life.
My mom slipped from the world.
Every day I wake up and think about the circumstances -- how I could've prevented it, and all the things I did wrong, like being upset she was sick, again, and also not taking her to the hospital in the morning.
I was stupid and selfish, and wished we did more together. But all that has passed. I have no magic wand or time-traveling contraption to return to that day in November 2018.
This October feels sober.
I have all the same feelings of excitement, but they are muted. Each time I allow myself to feel joy, my guilt, pain and sadness stifle that joy.
As the one year anniversary comes up, I admit, I still don't know how to cope.
But I have been dong so for nearly a year and will try ...