Decomposing Pumpkins
By Pam Sherman | November 11, 2008
I’ve been so busy writing on my new blog, www.herrochester.com, writing my January/February column, writing features, and conducting training retreats on presentation/communications skills, that I’ve been remiss in not updating this blog! Feel free to check me out more frequently on the Her Rochester website but I will return each month to this farm-field so that at least my mother,who tells me she reads this blog can keep up. Hi mom! Our pumpkins are sitting by my mailbox decomposing, the jack-o-lanterns having been thrown away last week. I’m a big believer in cleaning up from a holiday almost immediately after it’s done. But between Halloween and Thanksgiving do you keep the cornstalks and pumpkins and bales of hay for that “faux folksy” look or clean it out preparing for the next uber holiday, which isn’t even our holiday. Our house is always dark at Christmas, being Jewish and all. (My son finally realized we were a minority when he said, “I’m bummed there are no classic Hanukkah movies.”) We like to call ourselves the Holiday police because around January 5th as we drive past a house still bedecked in Holiday splendor we scream out the window to “take it down.” Well, that is what I wanted to scream when I drove past our neighborhood plant store which was completely decked out for Christmas. It’s only November 11th — wait until the pumpkins are gone before decking the halls with boughs of holly! And especially this year. Do we need to be hounded to spend money on decor when just buying the presents may be hard to do. I refused to be pulled into the billion dollar Halloween industry, I’m going to do the same for the 6 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years. This year I will give my good will freely, good cheer and good wishes and that doesn’t cost a thing. The site of the decomposing pumpkins made me realize that all the decorating in the world won’t mask what’s going on out there. Do something different this year. Don’t decorate outside, decorate your inside.
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