Halloween Is All Around Us//October 149th, 2021

 Calendars, if you think about it, are fickle things. 

Simple paper grids, dictating how we live.

The seasons themselves, they have no regard for a box on a glossy piece of paper.

And neither do those of us that know better.

There is a world that exists, beyond what most people can see. Beyond winter’s frigid snowdrifts, beyond spring’s flowers in bloom, beyond the heat of summer.

You can hear it calling, if you’re one of the lucky few that knows how to listen. In a stray dead leaf, on a still, dark night, in a breeze that’s just the perfect temperature. You can smell the burning leaves even under a foot of snow. You can see the happy, costumed trick-or-treaters in even the quietest doorways on the stillest evenings. You know the pumpkins are there, even when the fields look the most barren.

Little ghosts send you signals, that your time never really ends. They work tirelessly to remind you, and the rest of the lucky few, that every day is truly Halloween.

(Ghost by Salem And Company)