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Magic won the day.
Author: Raine    Date: 11/01/2021 13:01:18

Halloween came back -- with a vengeance -- yesterday. The kids started coming around 6 o'clock and didn't stop until 8 pm. Masked up both us and the parties involved, the candy was passed out.

It felt good to see the kids dressed up in all the costumes. Half of them I didn't recognize, meaning I am a 54-year-old woman with no children or grandchildren. I loved the look on some of the kids when I asked what they were dressed as -- it was a look I know I gave my parents when they didn't know a pop star like Boy George or Cyndi Lauper.

You know the "Dud, mom!" look. Still, Halloween came back this year. Our new normal is becoming, well, normal. Masks are gonna be here for a while and I am ok with that.

Over the weekend, Tri wrote of his long journey navigating this awful pandemic. He isn't alone, I know we all have gone through this journey in our own way. In March of last year, just a week after the country shut down, I lost a friend to cancer. I was already having severe panic from what was happening (it rather not happening from the previous maladministration) and here death combined with knowing that so many of our plans would be cancelled combined with not being able to travel to see family my brain started going sideways. I sought help, and it made a world of difference, to this day I am grateful for the support I had from Bob as well as friends.

Some of those friends were 'just' neighbors, friends, but neighbor friends. Since March of 2020 they have become friends of the ingrained nature, the ones you can bear yourself to. You know that's something is more difficult to do as you get older. Bob and I were fortunate, and I never take for granted how much we were.

That's why yesterday was so special to me. Halloween came back. We got to see our community becoming whole again. We've got a ways to go, but it is happening. Magic, born out of science and reason, won the day and the spirits were willed to make it so.

&
Raine

 
 
 

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