Trying to be someone else 

is a waste of the person you are

 

No matter how many mistakes you make 

or how slow you progress

you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying

 Too many people buy things they don’t need 

with money they don’t have 

to impress people they don’t know

 

Sometimes you need to distance yourself 

to see things clearly

 

You cannot change what you refuse to confront

 

You can steer yourself any direction you choose. 

You're on your own. 

And you know what you know. 

And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go

 

Don’t think of cost

Think of value

 

The most beautiful carpet is the carpet made of autumn leaves!

 

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket 

than all the other seasons

 There is no season 

when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, 

and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings 

as now in October

 For man, Autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.

 For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

 things to love about October

Crystal clear sky
Fallen leaves
Horror movies
Pumpkin spice latte
Halloween
Trick or Treat

 

The skies they were ashen and sober;

The leaves they were crisped and sere --

The leaves they were withering and sere;

It was night in the lonesome October

Of my most immemorial year:

 In the entire circle of the year 

there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October… 

no days so calm, 

so tenderly solemn, 

and with such a reverent meekness in the air

 October

 the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, 

the winey smell of ripened grapes, 

the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts, 

and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke

 October is the month for painted leaves. 

Their rich glow now flashes round the world. 

As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint

 just before they fall, 

so the year near its setting

 a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, 

and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

 It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. 

We have no scar to show for happiness. 

We learn so little from peace.

 

• Tuesday October 7: Hunters Moon - Harvest Moon - Supermoon 
• Wednesday November 5: Beaver Moon - Supermoon 
• Sunday December 4: Cold Moon - Supermoon 

the Harvest Moon is always the full Moon that occurs closest to the September equinox. Most years, it falls in September; every three years, it falls in October. (Astronomical seasons do not match up with the lunar month.) If the Harvest Moon occurs in October, the September full Moon is usually called the Corn Moon instead. Similarly, the Hunter’s Moon always follows the Harvest Moon. 

October 7 2025 Hunter’s Moon

 

Tonight is officially 2025's Harvest Moon night, marking the first of three supermoons that will close out 2025

you can spot the full Moon rising above the eastern horizon just as the Sun is setting.

October Full Moon - Hunter's Moon - Harvest Moon - Supermoon

 

Tuesday 7 October 2025 - Harvest Moon - Hunters Moon - Supermoon

 

Tuesday 7 October 2025  - Hunters Moon -

Harvest Moon - Supermoon

The full Moon will be both this year's Hunter's Moon and a supermoon. 

The Hunter's Moon is also a reminder of the changing seasons and the inexorable march of time. As the autumn leaves fall and winter approaches, the full moon serves as a symbol of nature's rhythm and the importance of preparation for the colder months ahead.

October's Hunter's Moon was given its name because it was at this time when tribes gathered meat for the long winter ahead. June's Strawberry moon received its name because many strawberries were commonly harvested at that month.

After the harvest moon comes the hunter's moon, in the preferred month to hunt summer-fattened deer and fox unable to hide in bare fields. Like the harvest moon, the hunter's moon is also particularly bright and long in the sky, giving hunters the opportunity to stalk prey at night.

It gets its name from Farmer's Almanac, which states that it's hunting season when the leaves fall and the deer are fat. Hunters can clearly see the animals that have come out to glean because the harvesters have already reaped the fields. Other names for it include Blood Moon, Dying Grass Moon, and Travel Moon.

The Hunter's Moon is a potent period for magical and spiritual activities. Its significance lies in the amplified energies from the thinning veil between the physical and spiritual worlds, making it a powerful time for crafting or charging magical tools like wands, athames, or pentacles.

In European traditions, the Hunter's Moon has also been associated with hunting, feasting, and festivities. The full moon often played a role in the timing of various activities, from sowing seeds to butchering livestock. Many cultures took advantage of the bright moonlight for communal gatherings and fun

Any Moon near the horizon will appear bigger because the horizon provides more size perspective. It's called the Moon Illusion. When you look at a full moon near the horizon, it often looks more red or orange because the light rays have to travel further into the atmosphere before they get to you

Because the approach of winter signaled the possibility of going hungry in pre-Industrial times, the Hunter's Moon was generally accorded with special honor, historically serving as an important feast day in both northern Europe and among many Native American tribes.

The Hunter's Moon is also a reminder of the changing seasons and the inexorable march of time. As the autumn leaves fall and winter approaches, the full moon serves as a symbol of nature's rhythm and the importance of preparation for the colder months ahead.

The "harvest moon" (also known as the "barley moon" or "full corn moon") is the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox (22 or 23 September), occurring anytime within two weeks before or after that date. The "hunter's moon" is the full moon following it. The names are recorded from the early 18th century.

The Hunter's Moon can sometimes appear red or orange in color, due to the way that sunlight is scattered by the Earth's atmosphere. This is especially common when the moon is low in the sky, such as during sunrise and sunset.

Some Native American tribes call the moon the "Travel Moon," or the "Dying Grass Moon." The Hunter's Moon is associated with the final harvest and was a signal to begin preparing for winter. It is an excellent time to focus your magic on psychic abilities, transformation, cleansing, protection, and banishment

This moon marked a crucial time for hunters to store up meat before winter. The Hunter's Moon also was considered a feast day for Native Americans and many Western Europeans.

• Harvest Moon
  The full moon closest to the fall equinox, the Harvest Moon may occur occasionally in October. It is during the helpful light of this moon that corn is often harvested. This will be the penultimate supermoon of the year.

 Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. 

And just when you think it can't get any better, it can

 There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. 

There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. 

Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million.

 Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. 

Mount Erebus

 

Ed Gein

 Are monsters born or are they made?

“Who was the monster? This poor boy who was abused his whole life then left in total isolation, suffering from undiagnosed mental illness?” Hunnam asks Tudum. “Or the legion of people who sensationalized his life for entertainment and arguably darkened the American psyche and the global psyche in the process?”

Ed Gein’s life: his abuse at the hands of his mother, Augusta Gein,  his fascination with Nazi war criminals, his grisly crimes against the women of Plainfield, Wisconsin, and finally his incarceration and diagnosis.

Gein’s first victim comes early in his life, when he hits his brother Henry  over the head, killing him accidentally.  He covers his tracks to avoid blame, but Henry’s death breaks his mother’s heart and damages her already rocky relationship with Ed. 

Augusta’s resentment forms a lingering rift that defines nearly everything about Ed. “He was this bizarre guy that lived in his own world, in his own reality, in total isolation with only one other point of contact,”  “And so everything in his life was sort of made up, was a work of his own creation.”

Even Gein’s voice felt inspired by this formative relationship. “It was an affectation, it was what Ed thought that his mother wanted him to be,”  “It wasn’t an authentic voice that lived in him. It was this persona, it was this character that he was playing because his mother desperately wanted a daughter, and she was given a son. In her more hostile, vile moments, she would tell him, ‘I should have castrated you at birth.’

After his brother’s death , Ed is soon left alone for good when his mother succumbs to illness and passes away. Missing his mother, Ed tries to dig her up — but settles for another corpse. Gein’s grave robbery was far more prolific than his killing; he used dried skin to create furniture, lamps, and more. A drawer of dried vulvas is one of the most disturbing

the sordid fantasies that would come to dominate his life, including his fascination with Nazi war criminal Ilse Koch, the “Bitch of Buchenwald.”  Koch inspires Ed to skin his victims and use them for furniture.

He is probably one of the most influential people of the 20th century, and yet people don’t know that much about him,”  “He influenced the Boogeyman and Psycho. Norman Bates was based on him. He influenced The Silence of the Lambs. He influenced The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. He influenced American Psycho.

Psycho specifically as a turning point for the horror genre. “Prior to Psycho coming out, monsters in movies were werewolves and Dracula and Frankenstein,” “They weren’t your next-door neighbor. They weren’t the person working in a hotel that might have a key to your room, to come in at night. It was a complete reimagining of the horror genre

Ed begins a romance with local shopkeeper Bernice . Bernice is open to exploring Ed’s quirks and her own sexual kinks, but Ed soon finds himself hallucinating Augusta, and he kills Bernice as well. It’s this final crime that brings law enforcement to his door: Bernice’s son  is the local deputy. 

 Ed’s state of mind may have kept him off death row. 

 Ed didn’t know what he was thinking when he was doing those things. It was just in a manic state.”

The judge in Ed’s trial agrees and sends him to a mental institution rather than prison. There, Ed lives out his days in relative peace — albeit with a few remaining fantasies. Via a ham radio, he imagines himself communicating with Ilse Koch, the woman who, from a distance, helped start Ed down the road toward monstrosity.

 “He makes sense as a person and a subject matter only in the context of the Holocaust really,” . “It was those images that got stuck in his head that he couldn’t unsee.”

Ed’s ham radio also allows him to “get in touch” with another long-standing fascination of his: Christine Jorgensen (Alanna Darby), the first widely known person to undergo sex reassignment surgery in the United States. Ed has become convinced he himself is transgender, wearing the skin of his female victims just as Buffalo Bill would in The Silence of the Lambs. But, as Jorgensen tells him, Ed is not transgender but instead is gynephilic — a man who’s so aroused by the female body that he wants to be inside it.

While in isolation in the mental hospital, Ed is finally diagnosed with schizophrenia, which gives him much-needed insight into why he committed the crimes and why he doesn’t remember committing them.

If he had gotten the right treatment sooner, [the question becomes] if he would’ve ever done the things that he did.

He really lived in that world, and the parameters and fantasies of that world were as real to him as anything else,”  “It was just his reality. Those manic episodes were the experience he was having, just like anything else.”

Ed was the perfect person to talk about that because when he was apprehended, he was very quickly diagnosed, and he was given great care by a society. He was taken to different hospitals. He was treated well. He was given the correct medications