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November 2, 2008
Halloween Idealism from the Philospher-Mom
You know, only an ethicist!
The plastic pumpkin shells we supplied were tossed aside in favor of pillow cases, which were then tossed aside in favor of barrel-sized black drawstring Glad bags. The kids returned, eyes glowing neon with avarice. "Look at how much I got!" was answered by, "Pssh. Wimp. Look at how much I got!" which invariably garnered the whining response, "Hey, they got more than me!" which brought me into the conversation. "I. More than I."That's when the orange lightbulb came on. We could reclaim the Catholicity of Halloween AND AT THE SAME TIME wage a holy war against avarice.
I went to the basement and got an industrial-sized Rubbermaid storage bin, then placed it on the table. Surrounded by eight variously-towering mountains of candy.
"Put it all in."
The silence was more intense than anything our family had achieved in church.
"Like this -- " I grabbed two fistfuls from random piles. "Put all the candy in the bin. All of it."
Posted by CrankyProfessor at November 2, 2008 12:01 PM