Happy Halloween to everyone! I live in a neighborhood with out any traffic from kids, so no candy to handout tonight. This is a good thing, I did not buy any candy which means I won’t turn around and eat it!
I offer no tricks, but I do have a “treat” – a Halloween haiku with a message. There are millions of people in the world who will not eat tonight, and there were probably a million pumpkins which were carved for Halloween. I am sure that most people did so without saving the seeds or any of the meat itself which can be used for food.
Next year when you think about carving 5 or 10 pumpkins (some people do) think about how much waste that is. If you don’t like seeds or pumpkin pie or pumpkin soup, and you don’t have homeless people or a local church that you can donate roasted pumpkin seeds or a pumpkin pie to, please, just carve one pumpkin. You are still getting in the spirit, but you are being more conscious of the universe out there and the plight of others.
Halloween poem in haiku
Orange guts spilt out near
remnants of a massacre
a smiling gourd stands.
Seeds in the oven
roasting under the broiler
salted treats await.
Pumpkin meat mashed up
sweet cream folded in the mix
a pie on the way.
Using all the parts
that nature has provided
a green way to live.
Happy Halloween everyone – be safe out there.
