So, let me tell you what Halloween is.
Halloween is when you decide what you want to be.
Not be when you grow up, not be in 5 years - just what you want to be because we are human beings. When we talk to kids - or ourselves - about what we want to be...about what our SOULS are, we are talking about Halloween. Only on Halloween can you be anything.
October 31 - Suddenly, nothing is off limits, nothing is forbidden - crafty, sexy, gory, inspirational, funny - everything is ok. You can be a character, you can be on an adventure into stories, stores and shoes you might never wear again. But, what's really cool, sometimes you find something there - a look, a pose, a color - that never leaves.
Halloween is more than candy and kids and scary movies - just like Christmas is more than cookies, presents and jingle bells.
Halloween is when a child is told to dress as a superhero and the child chooses Chris Hadfield.
Halloween is when you take a perfectly normal, dirty squash you picked from a field and turn it into a masterpiece.
Halloween is when people come together and help each other out with gusto just to be a group of Smurfs or a bunch of flappers. We suddenly find common ground and things that bring us together in a world that seems to want to divide us.
Halloween is when you can see horror, we've all seen horror, and suddenly it's just a little bit more ok because we all jumped when the killer was behind the door. And if someone else jumps, if someone else is with you, suddenly you are a little more ok with the horror you have to face the day after Halloween.
Halloween is about being more than in or out of the comfort zone - it's about accepting all zones. Halloween is about finding objects and people and things and making them more real. Halloween is about looking horror in the face with a laugh.
I have had Halloweens that have stayed with me ever since...whispering...anything is possible...you can be anything...
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