Hello All. Hope you like the above picture of my brother Kira. Our family spent so many Halloweens going out TRICK OR TREATING I mean my MAMA loves this holiday. TRICK OR TREATING meant DRESSING UP, RUNNING AROUND IN THE DARK, THE SMELL OF DRIED MAPLE AND OAK LEAVES, WAFTING UP AS SHE AND HER BROTHERS RAN AROUND KICKING LEAVES UP EVERYWHERE. GOING TO NEIGHBORS AND BEGGING AT THE DOOR FOR CANDY (very cool). Then she spent the next week DIGGING FOR TREASURE, AS SHE DUG THROUGH HER BAG AND ATE EVERY SINGLE PIECE. I mean she loved it. She told me that she would start with the BEST OF THE BEST IN HER BAG. That would OF COURSE be the CHOCOLATE, THEN THE CHOCOLATE, THEN THE WELL, YOU GET IT. It was like GRAZING IN THE GRASS. I mean, she would collect a brown paper shopping bag full of candy. And then spend the next week, EVERY SINGLE DAY, grazing through that bag. It was sublime. And when she became a grammie, well, she and PAPA would go with Auntie Kelly and take the grand kids out into the DARK NIGHT OF A OCTOBER SKY AND SHE LOVED EVERY SINGLE BIT OF THOSE EXPERIENCES. They would go trick or treating IN THE SNOW, IN THE RAIN, ON BEAUTIFUL NIGHTS AND THOSE WHERE WINTER WAS SCREAMING, JUST AROUND THE CORNER, I AM HERE, I AM HERE. She told me more than once that as a child there would be snowstorms BEFORE HALLOWEEN, I MEAN, ARE YOU KIDDING? And that in order to GO TRICK OR TREATING AT HER AUNTS NEXT DOOR, SHE AND HER BROTHERS WOULD HAVE TO SHOVEL A FOOT OR TWO OF SNOW, DOWN THIS LONG, LONG PATH DOWN THE BACK OF THE YARD, JUST TO GET TO HER AUNT ANNA'S HOUSE. YOWZA. Perhaps it was because of those MANY MANY MANY HALLOWEENS RUNNING AROUND IN THE DARK, THAT OCTOBER REMAINS, Mama's ABSOLUTE FAVORITE MONTH. Mama and Kira when he was young. October 1995 ![]() And so I hope you all have enjoyed my story. Dharma Dharma
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Jeff Sommers
10/27/2018 12:20:37 am
Great tribute story to Kira! I miss him that we all. Halloween always was my fave holiday still is. Happy early Halloween to you all.
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Kelly
10/27/2018 03:05:52 am
Taking the kids out Trick or Treating was always a favorite of mine. Remember the year I dressed Bee up in green all over and then pinned purple balloons all over her so she could go s a bunch of grapes? She was so little and cute. That was always my favorite costume and I will always treasure those memories.
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