With its blaze of colors, its shortened days, and its harvest in preparation for winter, autumn is an easy one to celebrate. What fun it is to take something that's hollow inside, like those pumpkins, there, and fill it with light? Maybe even more fun than that is to raid the costume box and dress up like a cowboy, a musketeer, or a film director, then run around a barn in the dark with friends (and flashlights, of course), seeking candy treasure in the sweet-smelling hay. Games, movies, hot apple cider, (and the eating of that candy treasure!) fill the spaces of the day and night with good memories and peaceful thoughts.
This is our celebration of fall, which has happened in some form, every October 31, since our family began. By-passing the traditional celebration of evil, fear, and death that happens that day, this celebration is about life, about seasons, about bounty, about happiness and creativity, all wrapped in friendship, laughter, and fun.
For us, it's just right.