Halloween
by: Valerie Elverton-Dixon on October 31st, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The wall that we think we build between life and death, between good and evil, dissolves into mist on All Hallows Eve.
And the shadow of death looms large over us reminding us of our earthly mortality and our complicated selves.
We wear the masks that reveal our internal Otherness. We costume ourselves in our fantasies and look our personal monsters in the face.
On All Hallows Eve we see our own all too human un-holy-ness. And we are not afraid.
Thanks, Valerie. It was interesting for me putting what you wrote alongside the NYT Op Ed by Joe Nocera (“What the Costumes Reveal”) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/opinion/what-the-costumes-reveal.html about Steven J. Baum (the law firm that helps serve and evict on behalf of virtually all the giant mortgage lenders, including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo). Photos from last year’s Halloween party show firm employees in costume of those who are homeless because of foreclosure. Not yet sure if they have confronted their “own human un-holy-ness” with their costumes but it is certainly there for everyone else to see.