Halloween magic...

I was recently with my sisters...part of our outing was at an antique mall.

We reminisced about the boxed costumes of our childhood, the ones with those

plastic masks held on by an elastic band.  We checked out the price on the 

plastic Halloween candy containers that decorated the picture window in

our Healy Lane home.  

I still decorate my home for Halloween...even though trick or treaters are

nonexistent in the country.  I still love the autumn orange and the pumpkin

faces.

And decorations from my childhood still make me smile...

Amish autumn

         Our Amish neighbors ready the corn for harvest. 

blackbirds

                    Blackbird singing in the dead of night

                    Take these broken wings and learn to fly

                    All your life

                    You were only waiting for the moment to arise

to happiness

I will never treat October as just any month.  This is the month when

Dave & I were married...and 4 years ago, it was the month of my final 

surgery in my breast cancer journey.  So, as October begins, I send out 

my reminder that 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer.

And, early detection truly matters.