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You are here: Home / A SKIRT HALLOWEEN / Psychotic Season

Psychotic Season

October 8, 2016 By Susan Nuyt Leave a Comment

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Halloween… all things “ugly”.  Everything “psychotic”, “psychedelic”, just plum “psycho“…  

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You can let your hair down and be just as pleasingly scary as you dare to be!  {There’s an excuse for that, don’t you know?}

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It’s also a time to be “brave”—  How far can you take it? What’s in your spirit?  What does your mind and heart tell you… It’s “okay” to be “human”, just be careful… watch your step!

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Do you have distinct imagination, a select creativity, an elegant style, good taste?

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Can you make bad and ugly into beauty and purpose?

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Can you design a lifestyle that is appealing?

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Can you see beyond every “impossible” possibility?  Can you defy it?

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Can you take what’s broken and make it new–just in a different way?

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Does this look like worms to you?  !  Do you see what it is or more than… ?

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Why not.  Who says I can’t…

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If the cookie crumbles, so what…

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Remove the thorns.

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Celebrate, anyway!

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Enjoy every season–

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no matter what.

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Get a bit over the edge why don’t-cha.

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Not everything dark is creepy.

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Skulls don’t have to represent ‘death’… It’s just life.  Have a weird side.

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Bake something totally burnt, just to be “nuts”… at least the underpart will still be good.  Just be out there.

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Read some history–even if on a gravestone.  Can you do it?

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Be a nature freak.

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Take the most horrible pictures for Halloween–it’s acceptable.  You can’t mess up Halloween.

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Still dress up your pets.

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Stay colorful, even when Halloween night comes to a close.

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Make it as hairy as you can possibly make it!

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Eat a LOT of junk food, I don’t care who calls my hand on it!  Yep, you heard me–rot out the teeth.  Gain a few…

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Get high on sugar.

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It’s just one night to be a kid again.

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Don’t forget to be pretty, too, all a part of the Halloween get-up.  And what woman doesn’t want to be?

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It’s not the devil’s holiday–It’s my playtime for make-believe with my kids.  I never outgrew my wings.

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Live festive, take in the Fall–

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all the elements.

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Just live.

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Take plenty of walks.  It’s just as beautiful in the Fall of the woods as it is in the Spring… Breathe.

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Cut out the spoil–always keep the good, even the bad-kind-of-good.  Know what I mean?

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Love-adore spiders.

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Love the old, too.

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Entertain.

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Be fancy and simple all together, all at once.  It’s a good balance.

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Make the unusual out of the most usual.

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Don’t be afraid to just be.

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Smile through it, grin and bear it, keep at it.

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You’ll accomplish it, whatever it is that’s on your heart and list to do.

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It’s a season for change.  Be okay with it.

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Experiment.

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Don’t freak out, just be a freak…  {haha}

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Do what nobody does, or what most everyone would be too chicken to do or become… Isn’t that the beauty of being your own person?  Yes.

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Be down-to-earth about so much, about so many things that are the most basic.

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Never hold back, just go with it.  

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It doesn’t have to be “the right” consistency all the time, every time.

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Be extraordinary.

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Let it fall apart.

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Be crude if you have to be.

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Keep everything greased and ready.

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Don’t eat it all up in one night.  {I guess you ‘could’ spend the entire night eating ‘something’, right?!… shame on me}

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Pick a lot of pumpkins but choose the best one to mess with.

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Be cryptic, have your own code.  Speak your own language that sets you apart so beautifully.

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Stand out from the bunch.  You’re amazing, don’t forget it!  Truly you are…

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Eat off the stove.  Just do that.

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Do something funky, not just at Halloween.

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Stay productive.

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Embrace your fears, every one of them.

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Then cast it out, all of them.

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Design your own life, your own living.

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Be comfortable in your own shoes, in your own skin.

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“Bury it.”

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Clean the cupboards.

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Be mesmerizing.

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Be the cat’s meow.

Happy Halloween!

Song & Artist:  Bad Romance by Halestorm

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