Happy Samhain, everyone. Don’t forget to carve your turnips, to guide the dead on their journey.

As soon as I could collect my scattered senses, I found myself nearly suffocated, and groveling in utter darkness among a quantity of loose earth, which was also falling upon me heavily in every direction, threatening to bury me entirely.
Quotation from Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

The Great Pumpkin was Alone. He thought “I am One. I want to become Many.” This single thought caused a Vibration, which eventually became Sound (“Om”), which prompted all Creation. Empty furrows–the space between vibrations– begat more Pumpkins, which represent the dream state of all consciousness.
A Pumpkin at rest is Perfect Bliss. Therefore, carve a pumpkin at your own risk.

Creating a Devil Pumpkin Using Kerosene-Soaked Toilet Paper (ExtremePumpkins.com)

“Who is it knocking in the night,
That fain would enter in?”
“The ghost of Lost Delight am I,
The sin you would not sin,
Who comes to look in your two eyes
And see what might have been.”
Poem from Theodosia Garrison

Saturday is Halloween. Despite the giant spiders and scary pumpkins I leave on the porch to scare them away, children still come looking for cookies and candy. They think their little plastic masks and bedsheets will protect them. Heh heh.

Lisa, vampires are make believe, like elves, gremlins and eskimos.
Quotation from Homer Simpson

ENVELOPE, n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter.
Quotation from Ambrose Bierce