I have once again successfully avoided Halloween by being away from home.
It is my least favorite calendar event. I didn’t like it as a kid and I don’t like it as an old Grinchy man.
I know plenty of Americans do love it. And people celebrate versions of Halloween or Hallowtide or Samhain.
I can get behind the Samhain Gaelic festival that marks the end of the harvest season. Its dark side is that it signals the beginning of winter or the “darker half” of the year. Harvests are good. Bounty is nice. I love autumn and I love the changing seasons.
Tonight is called “Mischief Night” and the “Devil’s Night” which are less about the occult and more about practical jokes and all out vandalism.
I’m on a nice warm island beach tonight and though the moon will be dark – in its New Moon phase – the tiki torches will be bright enough for me.
No Wicca rituals or spells for me. I won’t need to listen to when those Martians landed in New Jersey) back in the day, or reread or watch Something Wicked This Way Comes to get in the mood. Maybe they have pumpkin beer at the bar.
Weekends in Paradelle 