Is it
Halloween already? It seems like just yesterday, August 18, 2012 , I was saying my prayers in a nosediving air plane. It’s been nearly
two months since that incident. I apologize to you, the one or two web surfers
who happen upon this web page. I promise to be more consistent. Oh yeah, I
also promise that the check is in the mail.
Halloween
2012 is one to remember on the east side of North America .
Superfreak Sandy cut a deadly swath through the eastern seaboard
and into southern Ontario Toronto
Every once
in awhile, we are shaken to the core and humbled by the elements. Control?
IPhone 5 isn’t a decent makeshift paddle. The latest IPad is a lousy floatation
device. Your $270 hair cut isn’t behaving in the gale force winds. Drat. Must
take that up with the stylist. In an second, we could be taken out by a
century tree, slathered like butter.
Note to
self.
This is all
to say Happy Halloween.
I actually
bought and carved a pumpkin. Anything requiring manual dexterity on my part
becomes a “Charlie Brown” – that is to say, I carved a “Charlie Brown” pumpkin, I do “Charlie Brown” laundry, I make “Charlie Brown” goulash. I am
going to give the kid upstairs some Halloween candy, for the first time. The
child is now seven. I have seen her grow up in front of my eyes. For the first
six and three-quarter years of her life, she has said nothing to me. It’s only
in the last month she's looked at me. Maybe her parents said, “That lady who lives on the second floor has just turned 50. It would be
nice if you acknowledged her. She is all alone.” Me, I love a mute kid.
Yes,
Halloween is subdued this year. It’s anti-climactic. No witch, goblin or zombie
is as scary as Mother Nature in menopause. Her hormones are out of whack, and
tons of greenhouse gases spewed every minute don't help. We’ve pissed off Ma
with our human progress.
FYI – I am
one of the co-writers of this year’s pantomime hitting the Elgin Theatre in Toronto
That is my self-promotion for the year.
Boo.
