It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I think I have offically given up on the idea of one a week. I just can't do it.

Ahem, on with the show.

I love Halloween, it is my favorite holiday. And not just because I am a geek who can't quite give up on the idea of playing dress-up. And not just because I am a religious person, and I resent religious holidays being sanitized for the general public. I resent occasions that are meant to be about family and God being turned into excuses to stimulate the economy. Halloween is as pagan and pop-culture as you get, has been for as long as it has been celebrated.

I love Halloween because it is about community, kids wander the streets, going to neighbor's houses and asking for candy, and they get it. In some neighborhoods that is all they ever see of each other. Everyone is welcomed at the door with a smile and a small token of freindship. There is a feeling of freedom and peace that I don't find at any other time. The rest of the year I wear the masks of "mom", and "grow-up". this one night, I allow the world a glimpse deeper, into my soul, into the part of me that still believes in something macical out there.