Happy Reformation Day!
It is Reformation Day, as well as Día de los Muertos. I don't have much in particular to say, but I think these are important holidays, so I'll mention something. I actually wasn't sure for a while how I felt about Día de los Muertos. We celebrated it in chapel at TLU, and I found the skeletons and some other aspects of it a little creepy and, well, Catholic. It has grown on me a lot lately, and I do remember appreciating it a bit more last year because that was right after a friend of mine from high school was killed in a motorcycle accident. I am finding these things a better expression than our Halloween, where people just dress up and act like idiots. At work before I left today one of my coworkers was talking about closing the outside garden area around 6 and also having to do some other precautionary stuff because there is a greater fear of being robbed. I don't know that I would have thought of that. I was intrigued. These two holidays seem to me to have more meaning than Halloween, and I haven't been big on holidays in a long time because they seemed so devoid of any real meaning. I'm a deep kind of person, I guess, so I like things to be meaningful. So I celebrate those souls who have lived and died before me, and I celebrate Martin Luther and his challenges to theology and the church that we still have work in today.