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Merry Halloween
by bradstine on Fri 02 Nov 2007 06:58 AM CDT
Well Halloween's over. How I'm going to miss that festive holiday. Sure I know, Thanksgivings coming and then Christmas, but nothing seems to get me in a festive mood more than headstones, spiders, and the undead.
I don't mind kids having a night of costumes and candy extortion, but when did the entire month of October become a tribute to Halloween. Our neighborhood had Halloween decorations up the entire month! A months worth of decorations used to be reserved for Christmas only, and why not? Beautiful lights hung on homes, wreaths and Poinsettias, Christmas music wafting through the ethers.
Christmas no matter what your religious persuasion has always represented hope and healing among fellow humans. Healing is what we all long for in our life journey considering it's so often fraught with pain and evil along the way.
Halloween is a celebration of pain and evil and is probably why we don't have songs like "I'll be Home for Halloween" or "I'm Dreaming of a Red Halloween". Something about the holiday we know is bizarre but instead of giving it a couple days of indulgence, it now reaches epic proportions.
Thus is the America that is mine in the front edge of the 21st century. My kids will never know any different. I just wonder if Christmas would seem as exciting for the kids if all the Santa's at the mall were carrying bloody chainsaws?