The Fall is in Full Swing

October 1 brings with it the beginning of my personal holiday season commencing with Halloween at the end of the month. Then there are Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years to round it all out into the Winter.

I remember when I began to feel all festive this time of year for the first time. The seed was planted in the first grade in Blackfoot Idaho at Irving School when Mama would bring goodies to the class and made me a ghost costume for Halloween. It seems the rapid fire of the following holidays just made the time more special and that feeling has been reinforced over the years.

My recollections of my biological father were of the notion that he had Christmas in his heart. He always was an active participant in the decorations and various activities of that time. I always supposed he got that from his mother, my Grandma Ida. She always had a stupdendous tree happening in her living room and oh how I miss those times of my childhood.

You really have no concept of aging when you're a little kid preoccupied with all that was going on during the holidays. I revisit those times on occasion while collecting my thoughts at day's end.

So the holiday season is kicking in yet again. This will be my 60th some odd iteration and I tell you it's the same as the first inside my heart.