Hollowing

[Doreen Peri]

I have a facebook friend who can't spell very well so I don't know if it was deliberate or not for him to say "Happy Hollowing." I suspect it was a spelling error.

But.... I LOVE that!

I've never really understood Halloween. I mean, I know its significance goes back to a combination of a pagan ritual and the Catholic religious observation of All Saints Day which is November 1st.

Supposedly all the fears and evils are spilled out on the earth during this ritual in order to cleanse the earth from them, laugh in the face of fear, and the new clean good earth, without evil, emerges the next day.... All Saints Day.

When I was a kid, the holiday was for kids to dress up as ghosts, goblins, witches, skeletons, and other scary creatures and walk around in the neighborhood to demand candy. (Where the significance of the candy comes in, I have no clue... if you know, enlighten me.) Trick or Treat... If you don't give me a treat, I'll spook you or trick you or otherwise do harm to you or your property. That was the concept.

Today, it's a MUCH bigger holiday where adults also celebrate by having costume parties plus all the costumes for kids and adults seem to have become more elaborate!

I have several friends who just LOVE Halloween. Sure it can be fun, but I've just never really been that much into it.

But the misspelling, calling it Hollowing, somehow rings some meaning in this old soul. I like the sound of it. A day for emptying out, ridding yourself of bad feelings, fears, anger, negativity.... Hollowing yourself out to make room for all the good surprises the Universe has in store for you.

I really love this concept. I'm going to keep the misspelling in mind and think of the day as a spiritual Hollowing.... out with the bad, making room for the good! Yes!

Maybe I'll go out today and get a pumpkin to carve. That will be fun. Hollowing a pumpkin. More symbolism.

What are you doing for Halloween? Do you celebrate the holiday? Do you enjoy it? What are your thoughts about the holiday and its purpose?

[Doreen Peri]

When I was in high school, I had a group of friends who used to go out "frollicking". Silly word for going out and doing silly things like once we went on a scavenger hunt and told our neighbors all we needed was spray paint to complete our list. Then when we got a bunch of colors of spray paint we went out and painted these very big ugly green electrical boxes (huge, like 3-4 feet square) in our neighborhood. We made them pretty! Today, we would have ended up in jail probably.

Another thing we did was "Treat or Tricking" .... we'd go out with a bag of candy on Halloween and knock on our neighbor's doors and say "Treat or Trick!" and give them candy instead of taking any from them.

It was loads of fun!

Tell me your Halloween memories.

[Barry]

Just so you know...Hallow'een...All Hallows Eve...the evening before All Saints Day.

In high school I always thought it ironic, or maybe not, that Halloween comes at the peak of the hallucinogenic mushroom season in northern temperate climes. Here in Liberty Cap land, keg parties on Halloween were always quite interesting, full of rollicking, frolicking good fun and plenty of mucho macabre psuedo-mayhem.

Tonight my wife and I will attend a party, she dressed as a pirate, and me dressed as just me. You see, I am to be the "booty."

Chills & Thrills,
Scarey Barry

[Doreen Peri]

Supposedly all the fears and evils are spilled out on the earth during this ritual in order to cleanse the earth from them, laugh in the face of fear, and the new clean good earth, without evil, emerges the next day.... All Saints Day.

YES! Exactly.

Sounds like a fun party, Barry! Lucky pirate lady gets the loot!

Have fun!

And yeah, back when I was a teen, Halloween was a big day for hallucinating. I had a very scary time once. lol

[SadLuckDame]

I'll be hitting the bars dressed tonite. I was going to do a black velvet dress, black stockings and really red red shoes. I'm chickening out though and going as a black cat. I did win two years, once as best costume and the other best dancer, no kidding, but I was creative on the costumes. I won free bowling ball shots last year as an iced Queen, another year as Mother Autumn, they gave me a stack of CDs.

But, I'll be a cat like every other gal. I'll be crap outta luck this year.

Halloween is mostly about the costumes for us. My son refuses to celebrate it, but my daughter really gets into it. She's a bat ballerina this time. We just have fun doing make-up that's magical and shimmers, sparkles and all glitters. It's a girl thing, and she digs it very much.

And I likes the bar scene on Hollows eve. Free drinks, attention and easy topic conversation on such a night.

Carving pumpkins and cooking up pumpkin seeds is a good night in, too, Doreen. Make some yummy baked goods. We've been baking a lot here lately, lots of baked apple treats, like apple crisp and stuff. Today we did a second pumpkin, cooked a whole chicken up in herby delights, and it's just relaxing, plus feels seasonal.

Happy Holloween to you, too!

[Barry]

Susan just came down in her costume...WOW!!! Hot pirate chick par excellence. And me, just the booty. (Role reversal is damn fun!!!) I feel like a trophy.

Happy Halloweeeeeeeen, everyone.........

[SadLuckDame]

I heard the cheesiest pick-me-up line last night. The dude comes up to me, whispers, "I got a trap in my bedroom."
I gave him such a disappointing look. He proceeded against his smarts I s'pose and as if I were a dumb blond, pointed to my cat ears. So I said, "I know what you'd meant, but I'm a cat, not a mouse."

[Arcadia]

we usually have a hollowing weather at this time of the year in this side of the world: hard to breath air, heavy temperatures and merry-go-round kind of storms with thrilling and at the same time laughing skies. This year it wasn´t an exception: we are somehow in the middle of a windy-humid-huge-joking-cloud since a week . Also at 31st of october I´m usually at birthday parties (I have two friends borned near: one at 30th of october and the other at 1st of november). Last night I was in a party full of bio-quimics and foods engineers: with the years most of them became fervert food, wine, kids, house and garden lovers (some of them are also certificated chefs!!!), a real pleasure to share with them some hours -it´s getting more sophisticated each year-!!