Well, it is Halloween!! :) I have to be honest in that Halloween and Christmas run close to each other in my favorite holidays! I love the whole costumes and scarry feeling of Halloween. I love seeing the kids all out trick-or-treating, all the decorations, and just the fact that you can wear your own costume and people love it. :) I also love that feeling you get leading up to Halloween. :)
I was thinking, besides what to wear and the kids to wear, about how much I wanted to spend time adding content here. Just to write something and post it up. I didn't post up unfortunately, but I did keep working on the things I want to talk about and have done a few notes. I thought as I worked along on it, what a perfect time to really start up this whole thing. I love the whole mystery behind so many things and that scarry wonder about monsters and things that go bump in the night.
Ever watch the series that came on over the weekend at night about Monsters? I think it was actually even called that. Well, sorry I am not doing a better job of describing it. lol I know there was TNT's monster vision, which I really enjoyed, but this was something else. Anyhow, there was a line out of it I really liked..."If the noises in the basement are just mice.....why won't the cat go down there?" :) So cool. Another memory of that basement door mystery was of one of my favorite cartoonists. There is a scene where two dogs are sitting facing the basement door and there is a person in the room too sitting down. The one dog looks over at the other one and says "Wanna see something really cool?" He then says "Let's growl at the door and watch what she does". :) Or something like that. :)
Well, given that it is late and I am a little wore out from trick-or-treating with the kids and spending time with the extended family, (which was fun on both counts by the way), I will finally get where I was heading....Halloween.
This is a nice location to do a little reading about Halloween....
http://www.history.com/topics/halloween
There are so many things that get more than a little twisted by hear-say and this site might help a little with some interesting information. I find it interesting about how we still practice a form of an ancient tradition that dates back 1,000s of years. Back to a time without electric street lights, police patrols, phones, security alarms, radios, tvs...a time with just the night out side. Dark, ever so dark, cold air, the rustle of leaves, and ever so far between homes. A time when you and your family were alone unless you lived close to your family in gather homes such as a village. When something could scratch at your door in the middle of the night and you would have no way of seeing what it was without opening a slit in the door or window and shining your lamp through it..to maybe eyes looking at you.
I like too how it has changed some too by the people that took it up as a part of their lives. But it remained the same in the essence of it, that it deals with the unknown, the fabric of existence between here and the other world. To think that people believed that we grew close to the ethereal or spiritual world during a particular time. Maybe we do. Maybe they figured out something that we have forgotten or chosen to forget. What if Halloween really was a time when the two worlds melded together a little.....
