Happy Halloween

It's Halloween, oh how I miss those days of dressing up and candy and not doing real lessons in school. Holidays are such a good break from the day-to-day and I think celebrating holidays really reminds you to stop and not continue through life with the days passing fast. Celebrating holidays marks where you are in the year, and adds a little something to an ordinary week.

There are many school now apparently that are banning Halloween costume parades, and nighttime trick-or-treating seems to receding as people become more frightened of the people on the streets than they are of the costumes that kids wear. I know that bad people exist, and it is certainly a small risk letting your kids run around the neighborhood, high on sugar, but c'mon, we can't live in a paranoid, enclosed world. One of the great things about trick-or-treating is the sense of community it enables. Neighbors that you may never have met otherwise open their door to you, you have at minimum momentary exchanges, which is more than may have happened otherwise, and you see all of the kids your age that exist just in the surrounding area. It's great. What a shame if that all goes away because people perceive the world as more dangerous. I'm not sure that it is, who knows, but I know that it would be sad to make the next generation think that it is too.

Well, it's Friday...again. That seemed to come around pretty fast actually. Rob and I bought a car (thanks Tony and Trixie!) and are taking it for a road trip this weekend on the Great Ocean Road. It should be great, and I plan to become an expert on driving on the left side of the road by the time we're back.

Have a great Halloween and weekend, I hope someone has a Reece's for me!

Treats, not tricks,
Sandra and Rob