It’s already the middle of October! I hope you have settled into autumn and are enjoying the change of weather. I’m recommending Sleepy Hollow (1999) tonight with Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. You can watch the full version on YouTube Movies and TV - with ads (TV style cut).

Parts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are already in full color. Autumn is here! Hope you are enjoying the weather and everything good that comes with the changing season. 

Jan 💛🍁

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Video by Paul James Meinke

I love autumn!  

Blog background - Autumn Landscape by William Mason Brown (1828 -1898) - Public Domain - Wikimedia Commons. 

Leire’s very cool (and haunting) version of Wicked Game by Chris Isaak.

Very Interesting!

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(From MentalFloss.com) 

10 Medieval Words You Use Every Day

You probably say these words every day without realizing they were born in the Middle Ages.

  

 https://www.mentalfloss.com/language/words/medieval-words-use-every-day?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Yes! Autumn Poetry: A Collection for the Season has a new cover. It's an oil on canvas landscape painting titled, Autumn, Brandywine Valley, Pennsylvania, by American artist Bruce Crane - 1910. It's a softer image which I think fits the book a little better, and is from Wikimedia Commons. (Public Domain)

Probabilities

I tell you about

the stars and you name them

like numbers -

trigonometry I don't understand

or geometric probabilities of war.

 

The minutes move

from a day. Hours fall

like seconds

into a new paradigm shift.

 

Words spread across world history

written

the likes not seen

for centuries.

 

(c) Jan Darrow 2026