tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122304314547021226.post1463821957995195352..comments2023-02-16T10:29:31.767-05:00Comments on CELTIC PUMPKIN: Why I like HalloweenRook Wilderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16627545466953210016noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122304314547021226.post-17208790469368444532011-10-26T14:58:29.016-04:002011-10-26T14:58:29.016-04:00I don't think of Christmas as an austere time....I don't think of Christmas as an austere time. I treat it as the tree worshipping fun time it is, but that's me. (Stay tuned for Jul Pumpkin in the coming months...more later). Still, it is a time of evocative imagery, this Summer's End season. Perhaps the thing that makes it so wonderful is the horrific and the fun sit side by side during this season. Unlike all the other festivals I can think of, this is the time of the year for the sugar skulls in Mexico, when the we can celebrate not DEATH but the DEAD, as in, the DEPARTED, and the whole thing becomes a wonderful party atmosphere, which is so much better than weeping and gnashing of teeth. And of course who doesn't like the spooky?Rook Wilderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16627545466953210016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122304314547021226.post-22318498432497413792011-10-25T22:52:29.917-04:002011-10-25T22:52:29.917-04:00I have pondered why it is that Autumn, October, an...I have pondered why it is that Autumn, October, and Halloween are my favorite time of year, but I really have no idea.<br /><br />Something about the darkness is attractive, the morbidity, the subversiveness, the surrealism, the eroticism of Halloween, between the glut of summer and the lean winter. When the sun itself wanes, and all of nature seems to be falling to decay, and yet we are fat with harvest.<br /><br />Perhaps the symbols are simply more evocative. Christmas can be so austere, with it's themes of sacrifice, sin, and redemption. Halloween is full of scowling black cats, cackling witches, and leering jack o' lanterns, symbols of menace, tinged with humor and light. Halloween is where we go to heal the traumas. Like a good horror movie, we confront that which we least wish to see, that which we fear the most.<br /><br />I still can't say where my love of Halloween comes from, though I can identify an exact moment. When I was very small, 4 or 5, I came home from pre-school one Halloween afternoon, and my father had decorated the living room, filled the chairs with 2-headed mutants and monsters. Stuffed shirts and rubber masks. Why, I use one of those masks as my own profile picture today.<br /><br />From that year hence, my house haunting activities grew more and more elaborate. I think my father slightly regretted igniting that fuse, actually, ha ha.Mantan Calaverashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01024705691966479703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122304314547021226.post-6914140988957674042011-10-25T10:16:51.282-04:002011-10-25T10:16:51.282-04:00Well said, there are many of us who are kindred sp...Well said, there are many of us who are kindred spirits in how we think aren't we? I didn't know for along time other people "thought" like me and I kept my weirdness to myself. Since 2000, with the help of the internet, I found a community, for a lack of a better word, that accepts me and enjoys talking year round about everything you mentioned in your post. I will be off my computer until Halloween day, you and yours have a very good weekend and I will check back in Monday!Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09142712992278971483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122304314547021226.post-89763421095947485522011-10-25T08:34:34.957-04:002011-10-25T08:34:34.957-04:00I kindred spirit. Good post!I kindred spirit. Good post!wicKEDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01239994735354453516noreply@blogger.com