UNTIL I RETURNED TO WORK at Green Apple in late May, I had spent the last several years living in other countries on other continents in other cultures that did not celebrate Halloween. Sure, pretty much every culture has it own version of Dress-Up Day, where down is up and up is down and just about everything goes. For example, here is a photo of me and a friend at a Purim party about a year and a half ago, in Israel. But there’s something special about Halloween, for me. And it’s not the candy! It’s the explicit embracing of the dark, holy half of the human soul and the spirit world. So to all my fellow witches in the T-Dot rocking the pentagram, Happy Pagan New Year! To all my Taqwacore Sufis and Pirate Punks, here’s wishing y’all an Eid Mubarak! And to all the Necromancing Ninjas in the house, and to the whole 4-1-6 Zombie Zoo: have a super-duper Day of the Dead!

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