happy halloween

   i used to wait breathlessly for fall when i was little, rejoice when it arrived.  i remember thinking that i knew for sure when it was precisely fall when i needed to wear a sweater to walk to school in the morning, but when the sun had warmed the world all day, i could walk home again with bare arms.  

where is the sweater weather? oh, how i long for you!  

c'mon...all of my best, most fabulous clothes are fall clothes.  i look great in browns, rusts, and greens. my living room is arranged, year-round, for fall, directed to worship the fireplace.  i beg my mother to send me the colored leaves that my father picks up on his morning walks in virgina.  i keep the blinds pulled, trying to conjure up a make-believe, cooler world, from the inside out. 

it's crazy living here, in los angeles, the land of one and a half seasons.  i feel lovesick;  i know the object of my affection exists, know it's name, it's face! but we're torn apart from it, by distance and time.  (*sigh*)

i like to think that fall misses me, too.  

once again, halloween is upon us. one of my very favorite holidays.  it's not so much that i love what halloween seems to be here.  in la-la land, of course, the de rigueur halloween fashion is to dress as slut-ily as humanly possible without getting arrested for public indecency. i outgrew the need for that particular brand of attention many years ago.

but i do love the possibility of crisp air, the tiny, waxy foil-wrapped hershey's chocolates (oh, mr. goodbar!). the wind blowing the (few) fallen leaves in an eerie symphony  i love watching the most dreadfully tacky scary movies all day, every day, and i love the houses with front yards set up for spooky scares with giant, web ensconced spiders, and foam tombstones.  

just the idea of halloween is almost enough to be able to remember the smell of fall in the air.  almost. 

happy halloween.  

Comments

[Maz]

the leaves in virgina this week have been a lovely autumn red,yellow,and bronze......its beautiful. i wish i could bottle up the smell and magic of a virgina fall and send it to you. I went to the fab thrift store you and your mama told me about and bought three sweaters, just in time to jump in the piles of leaves outside my building. you know how that slight chill sinks into your bones, as you smell fireplaces being started up for the first time, with the clear blue sky above......i have also been known to fall in love during this time of year, fall brings out the best in everyone.

enjoy those hershey chocolates (save some krackels for me!) I found myself watching Saw, the Omen and the Exorcist of Emily Rose that night as many kids dressed as Elmo and disney princesses ran around wildly in search of their annual massive sugar high....it was great.

fall misses you Miss Lily.....but the grass is always greener.....what I wouldn't do to see a palm tree once in a while.

Miss you chica - Maz