Linda Rose 🟧

[CrypticChronicles @CrypticChrncles]

What if the truth about Skinwalker Ranch is far stranger than aliens… and far older than modern science? From unexplained UFO sightings and mutilated cattle to shadow entities, electromagnetic anomalies, and stories tied to ancient indigenous warnings — this infamous location has become ground zero for one of the world’s most disturbing paranormal mysteries. The real question isn’t what is happening there… but who — or what — has been there all along.
Come listen to Cryptic Chronicles podcast on Spotify if you’re ready to go deeper down the rabbit hole.
#CrypticChronicles #SkinwalkerRanch #ParanormalMysteries

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This flower is called "Queen of the Night." It blossoms only at night and only one night a year.

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

Good morning ☕️

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Return to Oz is the rare film that faithfully captures the weirdness of the fourteen original Oz books. The Wizard of Oz features a race of men with accordion necks who shoot their heads at Dorothy. In the twelfth book, the Tin Man goes in search of his former girlfriend and learns she’s now married to a Frankenstein’s Monster-style creature made from the discarded limbs of the Tin Man and several other people. No studio would risk making an adaptation of these books today. If not for George Lucas’s intervention, we wouldn’t have Return to Oz.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Imagine being forced to give someone 6.2% of your paycheck, every single check, every month, for 30 to 50 years of your life.

And that person said, "Don't worry, I'm holding this for you and will pay it back to you on a monthly basis, when you retire at 65."

And then they said, "Nah, just kidding. I meant when you retire at 67. And at that time, I'll only give you 70% of what you paid me."

And then they said, "Oops, I spent all your money. You're out of luck."

That's the U.S. government.

[Linda Rose 🟧 @lupusmalice]

True facts!

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

For children to flourish, they need to grow up reading and being read to.

The following is a list of essential books for any beloved children in your life. And they’re brilliant enough that they can be enjoyed equally well by adults.

THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, preferably in a kid-friendly version. These shockingly strange stories of magic and adventure fired the minds of authors like Lovecraft, Dickens, George Eliot and the Brontë sisters.

FIVE CHILDREN AND IT and THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET, by Edith Nesbit. A series of books about four children who have misadventures with a Psammead and a phoenix. The way Edith portrays kids was a major influence on Narnia and Harry Potter.

A WRINKLE IN TIME, by Madeleine L’Engle. Awkward, brainy Meg Murry must travel to the ends of the universe to rescue her father, in a visionary fusion of science, mysticism and cosmic horror leavened by L’Engle’s gentle Episcopalianism.

LITTLE WOMEN, by Louisa May Alcott. Not just for girls. Alcott is second to none as a writer of characters, and in telling the story of the March sisters and Laurie, she becomes the closest thing we have to an American Dickens.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. Harold Bloom called them the greatest children’s fantasies ever written, and they are my personal favorites. Every child needs to know the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare.

THE PRINCESS AND THE GOBLIN, by George MacDonald. A girl named Irene must battle a race of sinister goblins with soft feet who are threatening to abduct her and force her into marriage. The influence of MacDonald’s Goblins can be seen in The Hobbit.

THE WESTING GAME, by Ellen Raskin. A child’s first introduction to the mystery genre. Turtle Wexler is one of the all-time great children’s book heroines, and reading the end of this book as an adult still brings me to tears.

A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH and TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, by Jules Verne. Some of the most thrilling adventure stories ever written, satisfying a child’s fascination with things that live in the sea or beneath the earth.

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, by Lemony Snicket. A masterpiece of contemporary fantasy, Snicket’s unique blend of whimsy, Gothic horror and clever wordplay birthed a generation of darkly funny, verbally precocious readers.

Read to your kids. Teach them that reading is for pleasure, not to pass a test. Let them read what they love. Let them see you reading books with joy and enthusiasm. That’s how you get a child to fall in love with reading. That’s how you make a lifelong reader.