Happy Halloween!

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In the spirit of the season, I've been listening to my Sweeney Todd cast recording in my car. I believe I've discussed my experience being in the show in 1995 (my "Attend the Tale" icon is evidence of that). I would love to play either the Beggar Woman or Mrs. Lovett in the show. It's such great fun!

It will be a very quiet All Hallows' Eve this year. I'm working a "job fair for volunteers," as I call it, and won't have sufficient time to get into costume and meet up with the theater group to pass out candy downtown. Also, I feel like Cinderella trying to go to the ball--I have no costume to wear. *sniff*

There were movies at Mount Pony last night, but Geo and I stayed in so he could work on a presentation he's giving at a conference next week.

I usually post the lyrics to the Sweeney Todd prologue at this time of year, but this year, you shall get poetry from my childhood. Memorizing this poem was an assignment when I was in second grade. It's still a favorite.

Black and Gold
by Nancy Byrd Turner

Everything is black and gold,
Black and gold, tonight:
Yellow pumpkins, yellow moon,
Yellow candlelight;

Jet-black cats with golden eyes
Shadows black as ink,
Firelight blinking in the dark
With a yellow blink

Black and gold, black and gold,
Nothing in between--
When the world turns black and gold
Then it's Halloween!