We took a stroll this morning to see the Halloween decorations. The forecast predicted rain so I wanted to go early.
Just a quick peek before we got on with our day.
Halloween is my favorite holiday for a variety of reasons but I especially enjoy seeing the kids all dressed up in their costumes, eyes wide with excitement, fully committed to their character in a way only children can be.
Last year we got only a handful of kids as they passed by on their way to the festivities downtown.
This year, thanks to COVID and the rain, we had only the two young neighbor boys from down the street.
In honor of Halloween past and hopefully future, I am sharing a little ditty I wrote a few years ago for a class I was taking.
Also…..my favorite Halloween song. I first heard this song when I was living in Oregon a million years ago. This was in the days before technology could tell you what you were listening to. I had to finish driving to my destination, call the college radio station that I had been listening to, they had to track down the DJ, I had to “sing” him as much of the song as I could remember and then hope he could tell me what it was, which thankfully, he could.
Those were rough times…..
Anyway….Happy Halloween and fingers crossed next year “real life” won’t be as scary as it is this year….
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At dusk they emerge from their homes.
They race across front lawns in a flurry of capes and crowns, stumble over tails and cowboy boots and each other, half blind in pirate patches and sheets with eye holes that don’t quite match up.
Entire streets teem with them, fill with their sugar fueled shrieks and echo with their laughter.
Urgent message to the inhabitants of this town; surrender your M&Ms, your Twizzlers, your Musketeers Three; loose change, apples and tooth brushes will not to be tolerated.
Jack-o’-lanterns flicker and glow on front porches and fence posts, silent witness to the half-dozen ninjas and soldiers preparing an attack.
A hail of eggs is unleashed on a house with the porch light turned off while toilet paper rains from the sky and streams from the trees.
Sweet Tea The Narwhal And Me 