On the Eve of All Hallow’s Eve

 At  Christmas, stockings are hung. For Halloween, pumpkins are carved. The Better Half, better particularly when it comes to artsy type stuff, has done a crafty-artsy rendition of faces for this year’s jack-o’-lanterns. See for yourself. She carved each one free hand.

this year’s Jack-O’-Lanterns

Photo by J. Harrington

The weather forecast assures us there’s no blizzard in store for Halloween / Samhain this year, at least around here. There are tricks galore in the attack ads on tv. In fact, if I paid attention, I’ve no doubt I’d also see ghouls, goblins, trolls and witches therein. I won’t accept that “we’re better than this” when we keep letting the pols and trolls pile the same crap on US every election cycle. I’ve gotten fed up enough with the socio-politico-economic nonsense that I’m looking for solutions in the following places, among others:

• Sacred Nature ~ Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World
  (currently reading)


• Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us


• Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It


• Doughnut Economics


• Chokepoint Capitalism

I’ll not say whether any or all of these are treats or tricks. You should check out each one, and similar works, and then decide for yourself. As a Tweet, by @carbon_truth, I recently read notes “ Paraphrasing a well-known Montana author, on November 8 Americans will choose whether they want cheap gas or whether they want democracy.” On November 8, and thereafter, lets choose the treat of democracy and not get tricked into autocracy and fascism. ‘Kay?

 

All Hallows’ Eve

By Dorothea Tanning

Be perfect, make it otherwise.

Yesterday is torn in shreds.

Lightning’s thousand sulfur eyes

Rip apart the breathing beds.

Hear bones crack and pulverize.

Doom creeps in on rubber treads.

Countless overwrought housewives,

Minds unraveling like threads,

Try lipstick shades to tranquilize

Fears of age and general dreads.

Sit tight, be perfect, swat the spies,

Don’t take faucets for fountainheads.

Drink tasty antidotes. Otherwise

You and the werewolf: newlyweds.

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