Many of our kids come on Halloween from the Duranes neighborhood which abuts ours. Ours is a upper middle class neighborhood and theirs is a strong working class neighborhood. There is a gate offering access to either side at any time of the year. But our walls fall every halloween in a big way and it is glorious.
We keep count every year. We ran out of candy after 261 little monsters came to the door.
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I remember it now. My buddies and I would head straight to neighborhoods like yours.
You know, last year was the first Halloween I was for home for in about 15 years so I went to the city's web site to see if they still had a designated trick or treat time and when it was and I got the impression that they try to discourage trick or treating.
In other words, instead of trying to make a world where our kids are safe we just get more defensive and keep heading in the opposite direction.
That was a nice post, interesting on several levels. Very nice photograph. It's hard to get something like that.
I grow fonder of your blog every time I read it. Would value your thoughts on the immediate political aspects of the un-Occupy ABQ thing. My personal feelings are that the City is playing it a bit too conservatively but, more significantly, UNM (The Schmid) is abdicating its responsibilities to protect those of its students involved, to use what is going on as a teaching tool (Pol Sci, Econ, Anthro,History, Sociology Departments and the MBA program all should have at least professional curiosity if not direct involvement). Anyway, that's my stuff on it; but I am much more curious about your feelings and thoughts...I may well have missed something. And thanks, eh? (You are gracious not to post comments. Thank you.)
Lovely. I had 12 here in Sandia Knolls in the mountains.
So envious -- we only had three kiddos this year -- two unicorns and a graduate
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