Why the trick or treats?
Weekly Update

Words  have power, and not only for the children we serve.  This Halloween and every holiday, don't blindly follow tradition. Read up.

2,000 years ago, Halloween began as the Celtic New Year's Eve. The festival of Samhain celebrated the end of the summer harvest and the beginning of winter. This  marked a transition from life to death, so Celts believed the dead roamed the earth.   They wore masks to disguise themselves from evil spirits, and left candles and "treats" on their doorstep for deceased family members.  To ease fears of winter's cold, darkness, illness and death, t hey did  "tricks" to tell the future. How will you celebrate this ancient Celtic New Year?
Weekly Inspiration

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."  Marcus Aurelius
 
"Allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each being to sing the song of their heart."  Amit Ray
Weekly Words

Daily reading to children puts them almost one year ahead of those who are not being read to.

DETERGE: (v) To cleanse something thoroughly.
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