Orange Christmas
I noticed this year that it seems like a lot more people are stringing up orange lights for Halloween.
Not just on the porch with a few Jack O' Lanterns and some stretched-out cotton ball webs. But into the bushes and up near the roof.
It was a lot like Christmas tonight.
In more ways than just the lights.
First, there was the woman whose National Guard husband has been in Afghanistan since February and will be home around Christmastime. She simply can't wait. So much so that she's already put up her fully lighted, red-white-and-blue Christmas tree.
But that's not all that got me to thinking about Christmas.
As I walked around the neighborhood tonight, I noticed how so many people had their porch lights on and how so many people were walking around the neighborhood with their children and knocking on doors to accept gifts.
Granted, they were dressed in costumes, and there was a strong contingent of the half-dead oozing puss and blood.
Still, there they were. People opening their doors and giving and knowing each other.
I can't help but wonder why we use this day to open our doors and close our doors on the day that we should open them the most.
8 comments:
You pose an excellent question. Maybe you could email that question to all the people fighting against the "War on Christmas" crowd and ask them if they know the answer.
Cool costume!
Because we're masochists.
The kids wearing costumes here get beat up by the kids who aren't wearing costumes and are relieved of the night's gifts.
Elsewhere, meet Unkie Herb.
http://unkieherb.com/halloween-the-one-day-our-kids-take-candy-from-strangers/
What a dashing masked man! I feel safe in the world protected by the likes of that superhero!
Nice to meet you, Elsewhere.
I agree, open doors are important. But isn't it strange that on the day of the dead, of all days, we allow our kids to fraternize with strangers? We allow them to accept candy, the most dangerous act of all, from people we don't know!
Go strangers, go!
UH.
Hmmmm...good question.
have I told you lately that I really enjoy reading your blog? Its good stuff btw!
thanks
Great post and great costume! Was it hard for him to get the hang of vibrating through walls?
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