BELATED HAPPY NEW YEAR

So, if I read correctly, the time we call Halloween these days was the start of a new year for my Celtic ancestors. Much like the Semites from whom many of us later appropriated a faith tradition, they began the day with night, at sundown. And apparently they began a year with what they saw as its darker half; winter was starting.

This new year's eve was also a thin place in time. It was believed those who'd gone to the next life could visit back.

May any ghosts who turn up at your door bring remembrances more sweet--maybe with a tang of sadness felt by most of us who live in time--than haunting.








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