I was at the dentist yesterday.  The office is decorated with pumpkins and bats.  

Last night, a warm night, I lay outside on the deck with the moon and stars.  Then, the wind blew in as though bringing threads to connect a time of year when the veil between the living and the dead thins.

I’m with this quote by Audre Lorde:

We have to consciously study how to be tender

with each other until it becomes a habit.