I have been out and about in Fargo, preparing for Halloween. My cat is ready and so are the kiddos! I can't wait to trick or treat on October 31! What is that? Halloween has been checked off the list, it's completed, done. Yes, well I am already preparing for Halloween 2024. I wanted to get a leg up on it in early November. I may as well be ready, I have tons of candy in my bucket! You may be asking if I have lost my head. Perhaps I have, but maybe not. Recently, I needed some items to help prepare for Thanksgiving Day. When I went to the store I found out that they were clean out of turkey decorations. "Come on man," we sold Thanksgiving items months and months ago! All I could find were Christmas decorations on the shelves. This year it appears Santa and his reindeer want to miss the winter blizzards and just get er' done and over with! I was shocked and left wondering, what on earth has happened to our lives? Materialistic gods seem to be spinning their heads and have now gone completely upside down. How far back will the culture push calendar events or how far ahead, whichever way you see it? Will we ever get some order and reason again, enjoyment of the seasons? I am offering some free advice here, listen up well friends. If you will be needing an Easter basket next year, keep your heads up now, because once Christmas is over I fear the stores will nearly be sold out of chocolate bunnies and peeps, "peeps!" By Easter next year, shelves will be well stocked with the fourth-of-July holiday just as we are all removing our Easter bonnets from our heads. It seems to me at some point the stores will just have a giant circular spinning machine, much like a Ferris wheel, only instead of a ride, it will fire goods at us upon entering the stores. There will just be massive junk flung at us, everything we could possibly want for any time in our lives, hurled, all at once into our shopping carts. It will be a maddening grab fest'. We won't need a set time or a set season, it will only be about filling our shopping carts full up, with things. Our lives will have no customs, no special days to remember, we will just receive much, with zero tradition. The, I WANT, season a season full of emptiness! I just wonder how we will begin celebrating Christmas in early November, it seems by the time the Christmas season rolls around we will be ready to vomit up the excess indulgences and toss the tree on the street as we head to the return aisles. The future of Western culture will be whatever it is the stores sell us, mainly to grab and buy whatever you can get, just GET IT. To me enough is enough, let's reel the hooks in and put the rods away for the day, the fishing trip is over, we've caught enough! Let's all take a deep breath and try and enjoy the day, and just love the season we are in and the moment, the now that we have! It is early November and we are heading into Veterans Day weekend, this is the time when people in the past began to start to look ahead towards Thanksgiving Day. That is unless of course you are a turkey and you have been thinking about it all year long, with much fear. All the getting has left us kind of empty and voided the moments we set out to celebrate. Let us try this season to enjoy the moments and not speed through them, this is our life, love it, enjoy it, take a deep breath, and relax. Let's not throw Thanksgiving on the clearance rack in October. Let me know what you think!
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