A Light Unto My Path

 

Image via Astrological Musings (a Beliefnet blog).

 

I gave a guided farm tour today for a group of primary-school children from a private Catholic school that seems to take its religious heritage very seriously. These kids were already wearing school uniforms (usually not introduced until high school in our state-funded Catholic system), and although they acquiesced to a trip through the Haunted Forest, the children and their teachers later told me that their school did not celebrate Hallowe’en. Instead they dress up as their favourite holy people for All Saints’ Day. (I fervently hope I’m not the cause of a rash of angry phone calls chastising my boss for exposing them to the Witch’s Cottage and the Eyeball Patch.)