“Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, ‘Never take candy from strangers.’ And then they dressed me up and said, ‘Go beg for it.’ I didn’t know what to do! I’d knock on people’s doors and go, ‘Trick or treat.’ ‘No thank you.'” (Rita Rudner)
“Proof of our society’s decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many.” – (Robert Kirby)
“I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands.”
― (Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living)
In Autumn
by Winifred C. Marshall
They’re coming down in showers,
The leaves all gold and red;
They’re covering the little flowers,
And tucking them in bed
They’ve spread a fairy carpet
All up and down the street;
And when we skip along to school,
they rustle ‘neath our feet
“Autumn … the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — (William Cullen Bryant)