Halloween and the dead
Today is the midway point, where the lighter half of the year is behind us and the night gives way to the darker half. It’s also the day we welcome the dead back to stand among the living as the veil between alive and dead is almost pierced in the transition. If this were measured in a day’s cycle, this would be the gloaming, the time to reflect and rest from the day and welcome the night.
I was visiting mom this morning and told her it was twilight and that the dead would be walking among us this evening and asked her who she would like to see. I told her I had been thinking of Uncle Doyle and Mama Mae (her mother) and Tio Vitali and Saul, and Uncle Menahem, and Carey and Dale. She said, “Daddy,” meaning Grandpa Ellis. She smiled a big smile.
It’s the beginning of a new cycle and we have to welcome all the love and joy into our hearts and have a vision of what the new cycle will bring. I’m optimistic.