Although Halloween is now a week behind us, I need to share a truly amazing, truly eye-opening and inspiring story from the holiday.
Now that I am no longer living in a high-rise with restricted floor access, I have all kinds of little people in crazy costumes ringing my doorbell again on Halloween. It's been a good 5 years since I've seen kids dressed up for Halloween and 5 years since I've had to pass out candy to trick-or-treaters. I admit, I missed it.
This Halloween my wife and I had plans to head over to a friend's house, and being the new family on the block we didn't want to be the jerks with the porch light off not answering the door; so we made the decision to be "that" house, the one with the bowl of candy on the front porch and a sign above it that reads "Happy Halloween, please take one". Knowing all the youngest kids hit the streets early we thought they would get first dibs at the candy and then the first group of older kids would clean us out and probably even take the bowl and punt our pumpkins.
Flash forward 4 hours later.....
We came home to in-tact pumpkins, a bowl still on the front porch and...get this...half the candy still in it!!!! Now tell me this simple little occurrence does not inspire as much hope in the future generation for you as it did me. It's the little things people....the little things.
Do something and do it now,
JD
