Just another day in the Math department here at St Francis High. I just stopped by my colleague's room to chat with her. Generally Princess Tricia of Tuscany comes in mufti but had an official engagement after school and so came in her full regalia. Lookin' good, your highness...
...not really! Just another part of that most North American of festivals, Halloween! Not just the students, but the teachers too dressed up. I found it odd that a Catholic school would get behind what I had always considered to be a slightly Satanic holiday, but it seems, just like Christmas, the spiritual aspect of Halloween has been glossed over. Rather than appeasing evil spirits so they'll leave you alone, Halloween is about Fun, Fancy-dress and Farm-loads of Candy (sorry to stretch the alliteration there). I can't help but wonder, as fun as it was to get myself dressed up as the Grim Reaper, does glossing over the history take it away?... What do you think? Halloween; Evil or not? Just good old-fashioned fun?
1 comment:
W2hen I was a youth Haloween was rarely celebrated it was an American thing.Nowadays our cultural trappings are so shallow.its Wanna Be culture that prevails and me me me I I I fun fun fun and who gives a shit.innit!
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