I'm bored so I think I'll blog. There are other things I could be doing, but I don't feel like doing them right now. Give me a break, I was just sick.
Anyway...today it was really windy; I mean really really windy. Our trees probably lost just about the rest of their leaves. It's cool to watch the wind bend the tress and throw the leaves around; I never really understood where the wind comes from. My brother has tried to explain that it has something to do with air currents shifting around but I never really got it.
Oh yeah, today's Halloween. My family has never celebrated it. Never ever ever. Where we used to live we used to get a few trick-or-treaters but now we live on the top of a ridge in the middle of the woods. Yeah...and most of our neighbor's kids are already grown up. So, even if we did celebrate it, we couldn't. Or wouldn't, either way. Our church used to have an activity night on Halloween but they stopped that years ago. I remember going once with my family when I was little and we played games and made crafts; it was a fun alternative to trick-or-treating.
I wonder what I'll say to my children if they ask me if they can celebrate Halloween of not. Halloween is the celebration of darkness, a "festival of the death" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween). The focus of Halloween is fear. People dress up in scary costumes and decorate their yards with skeletons, spiderwebs, ghosts, carved pumpkins and monsters. I don't think I want my children to be a part of that.
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