Today, 31 October, offers up times of crazy costumes and fad of trick and treating. I celebrated Halloween myself this year with my online art home called, www.deviantart.com and my profile as Orpheus14 where each day we receive clue to find any artistic form to enter their daily challenge, and receive trick and treats from other artists or as I discover one authentic profile badge to display for giving out as many trick or treat gems for other artists efforts. So I am sharing my photo from my past relationship with my son’s pet whippet, Devo, who I came to know fairly well with putting up with my visits over many years. Devo becomes one great confident I join in on daily walks, and around their home and even in visits to my home, where pet restrictions apply. Here’s to “Devo the Reaper” and I hope you enjoy his magic.
In past years, as one exuberant Mom to four youngsters, I enjoy Halloween for many years. In those days, my children seem able to safely visit our neighborhood yelling “Trick or Treat” and neighbors offer up great candy treats as they open their door. Each child owns one orange plastic container shaped like one large pumpkin in orange plastic to hold all treats. Costumes my children wear range from pirates, ninja fighters, demons, and even one year my oldest made one great deal out of becoming Saddam Hussein in his rented face mask. All these costumes remain put together with some modest help from me but mostly left in their eight hands jointly helping each other. When my children return home, they spread all their great wealth of candy around the floor to sort, trade and eat in modest amounts. I ask them not to sell these treats at school next day as this behavior seems very rude and ungrateful.
Our home may have one jack o' lantern with candle sitting on our doorstep, as other children come to our home, and I give out treats. The jack o' lantern is one orange, fresh pumpkin squash that the evening before my children organize and cooperate to carve any sort of facial expression into cutting out eyes, noses, and teeth and one large mouth. The simpler way is to draw scary faces onto the pumpkin with felt markers but then no candle can be lit, and if outside the candle lit jack o' lantern becomes home’s beautiful site. I try to dress up as friendly witch with tall pointed black hat, and play scary music in my home for sharing. Most children seem to think I am A-okay witch and smile in appreciation. As my children gain entry into our local youth cadet groups, they attend their own Halloween parties and even our neighborhood seems to empty out of visitors, as I must drive them to and return from my own children’s events.
I hope everyone enjoys your Halloween holiday, and their own very safe Halloween experience. In Ireland, as I study the Irish Gaelic language, I learn Halloween remains their greatest annual holiday, and is one time of year to feel closer to their spiritual relationships with those past. So my Gaelic greeting today is “Samhain” ..beginning 01 November and start of our darkest periods in calendar year noting end of harvest. Happy Halloween! Maulo
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