Halloween and Miss Manners

Candy, candy, candy…that’s one of biggies of Halloween, so of course I want to observe it! But it’s more than that.

Now, Miss Manners has dismissed Halloween as simply an indulgent (self and otherwise) holiday. I beg to differ, there’s nothing simple about indulgence at all. I have fond memories of Halloween as a time when my imagination was allowed its wildest flights of fancy. I could be anyone or anything I wanted for that one night, and anything could happen during the wee witching hours. So, if to believe in a little bit of magic, in the potential to see your world and yourself in a new way, is something Miss Manners wishes to curtail, I may need to stop taking her advice.