Pro-life jack-o-lantern
Katelynd Mahoney… now at the Susan B. Anthony List, sends a snapshot of what they were doing for lunch over there today….
~ Kathryn Jean Lopez, The Corner at National Review, October 27
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
awwww thats cute! happy halloween all:)
Happy Reformation Day, Heather!!
I get to take a princess, a cowboy, and a catwoman out trick-or-treating in the rain tonight.
Carla! When my sister lived in Slovenia, Reformation Day was celebrated as a civic holiday there, even though the country is primarily Catholic. Something about the Reformation having a significant impact on their national historical development or something.
I liked these old-school Halloween pictures from Life Magazine: http://www.life.com/gallery/35522/old-school-halloween-photos?iid=home%7Ceditorspicks#index/0
I think my favorite is number 30 or so, the girls walking together after picking out their pumpkins at the farm. (I desperately want the outfit that the girl looking at the camera is wearing!)
I miss the midcentury mythic Halloween of paper-bag masks and costumes that didn’t all just come out of plastic bags next to each other in plastic stores. So much of Halloween tradition rests, ironically, on the basic assumption that people are not all out to kill you, that it isn’t you against the world, that the world itself isn’t that bad after all. Bobbing for apples (unsanitary! disease!), people giving out candy (razors!! be very careful and always let your parents check all your candy first!), kids wearing masks in school, poking eye-holes in your own mask, even the benign soap graffiti. The very idea that any door is open to anyone who knocks on it – and that any door your kids could knock on will be a door you don’t mind being opened to them. It all seems to rely on something we don’t really have, or value, anymore.
But we have candy, so.
As I was driving home from the grocery store, I saw a most hideous hanging goth looking skeleton with cape and all (it was very grotesque and scary looking) It got me to thinking…where is the outrage over these displays? just try putting up an aborted fetus and oh the horror of it all! just my thought for today.
Maria, if you want to put up aborted fetus pictures for your Halloween decorations, I would have no objection to that. Just pull them down after Halloween is over, like people do with their skeletons and cobwebs and vampires.
joan – glad to see you acknowledging that abortion is something people should find horrifying.
[...] thoughts on this day range from designing cute pro-life pumpkins, to changing our Facebook profiles to remind Americans of the “true horror” in our [...]
Joan..Halloween is once a year….Abortion is 4 million a year! get your priorities straight!
Just got back from trick-or-treating.
Hershey’s, Hershey’s, Hershey’s!