This is Halloween. Now that I've turned on some appropriately-genred radio, it feels a bit more like it.
I didn't buy treats to give out, nor decorate outside this year. I had a few reasons. I am still reminded of last year, putting up the decorations, and then Serena dying a few days before Halloween. So few kids even come in a normal year (last year 6 kids in 2 groups). It's in the middle of the week. The current hours I keep have me working till late at night. I have to get up early tomorrow morning.
Yet now I am procrastinating finishing my day's work, because I want Halloween to be more Halloween. Halloween is such an ephemeral holiday.
Earlier this month I applied an orange/purple/green color scheme to the tree of lights. It is in the other room.
Scrolling through the whole over-the-air FM radio dial, not any Halloween music, not even on "Steve FM". One PBS channel is playing what might be vaguely Halloween-themed music, but not of the chipper kind. I'm switching back to streaming.
Oh, it is also the start of Diwali. Happy Diwali! Happy Halloween!
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