Phoenix

Tonight is Halloween, and this year I'm looking at it differently. Most of what I've heard has been about witches, spirits, ghouls, and other scary creatures, plus dressing up and getting candy. However, it's also about the dead coming back amongst the living for a night, now popularized in the ghost, vampire, and zombie ideas. But what are we really saying?

I think it was once about the idea of rebirth, of understanding that even though the crops had been harvested and the land was bare, that food would grow again. It's easy to see this message in the spring when everything is in bloom, but the fall is a much a part of that cycle. Everything must die in order for it to be reborn.

So it is with a half humourous intent that I say this blog is dead, for I stopped work on it over three years ago. Yet I will begin it again tomorrow, by taking a photo a day around Kitchener-Waterloo. My aim is to do this for a full year, with photographs from different locations, hopefully breathing life back into this lifeless site.

And don't worry; this reborn blog won't ask for your brains, blood, or soul, just that you appreciate the beauty around you.