Welcome to a thoroughly Autumnal edition of Friday links,
As I write this, I’m enjoying my favorite autumnal candle, Leaves, from Bath and Body Works. It makes an appearance every year once the days get shorter, and really, who doesn’t love the scent of clove and apple?
Halloween is this weekend, and sure to look different than years past – like most of 2020. I found the website Halloween2020.org to be full of fun and helpful ideas for this year’s distanced festivities. We’ll be watching movies, and taking a peek at the Blue Moon that night. Stay safe, everyone!
Here is what I’ll be reading over the weekend:
Life magazine’s gallery of over one hundred fifty black cats at an Alfred Hitchcock audition. So many personalities captured in those images!
It’s the perfect time of year to revisit Thoreau’s Autumnal Tints, originally published in 1862.
I’m tempted to try this new imagining of a winter staple, Black-Eyed Peas and Cornbread Dumplings. (Joy the Baker)
A modern revisiting of Salem.
This year’s hottest Halloween decoration is from Home Depot, of course.
An extra link, since I found this so interesting – Edgar Allen Poe’s Philosophy of Composition, in which he details how he wrote his most famous poem, The Raven, with “mathematical” precision.
Currently reading: Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
Have a lovely weekend and Happy Halloween!
