October Daze

by Rev. Ralph Fotia

October is the month when spring, summer, autumn and winter seem to converge. The temperature plays with days of warm, to cool, to cold and in-between. The world of sports witnesses to the boys of summer looking for Mr. October. The gridiron groans with all that beef and who has momentum. The hoops are already swishing for the long seasonal battle of the courts.

If everything seems to be merging, change is on the way. The autumnal days are upon us and the landscape is giving off its symphony of color. Falling leaves scatter the ground cover for bulbs and creatures digging in for the long cold winter.

The nation is poised looking for change. Alaska goes dark in the winter. Russia is invisible. The stock market has gone south. The surge is now history.

The long-awaited fruits of the Emancipation Proclamation are now hanging low for the picking like a fall harvest. While Wall Street and the banking industry hunt for cash, a whole people are coming forward to collect on their checks.

Three cheers for the USA -- life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

All this in the Halloween days of October. Will it be trick or treat for the American people?