Cheryl: If you were to celebrate Halloween and All Saint’s Day, how would you celebrate?

Higg(in)s: We would celebrate in thanksgiving, and in appreciation. We would be grateful for a successful growing and harvest season, and for the continuing life that provides. We would express our appreciation for those who are in our lives, present and past, not in words but in deeds. Importantly, we would be appreciative of the ebb and flow of life. Some things pass on, but others continue. Meaning, we would remember those passed and we would be grateful for our continued life. We would spend some time out of doors in gently strenuous activity.

Cheryl: What would your day of celebration look like?

Higg(in)s: Some of us like pomp and ceremony. Some of us like it simple. Either way, a day might look like taking the family to the cemetery to spend some time with our loved one’s memory. It would be a day of happiness and games, tending headstones, and a picnic lunch.

This is an evolving conversation, apparently…

One of us would spend a spooky day in the woods playing hide and seek with friends. Then have a fun meal with spooky themed food. They would follow that with a seance to speak with old friends.

Another one of us says there are four days of celebration that they would string out: October 30 to November 2. Things they would do: make sure those still living feel tended to; get some physical outdoor exercise; connect with the other side. That delicious feeling of gentle tiredness makes it easy to connect with the other side.

Obviously, the ways to celebrate are infinite. What is important is that you celebrate both life and death because life is a cycle like the seasons.