Originally published on Dr. Z's Two Cents, October 7, 2025.
Hello, October, the official spooky season!
Well, Q4 of 2025 has officially arrived...
Let us take a collective deep breath and exhale to get us settled in to address some spooky things, eh?
Go ahead and pause for your own deep breath break here.
I'm serious. Do it!
See? Wasn't that nice and relaxing?
Now, the important question to kick things off... are there any other {stressed} baseball fans reading?
#Cubbies #GoCubsGo #TheresStillTime #UnderdogsAllTheWay
The SECOND most important question is, how TF (THE F**K) are you?
On this 6th (probably 7th by the time you're reading this) day of October 2025, life is happening at a rate of several well-timed curses per hour, for most anyone paying attention to the world around us, let alone the addition of our own subjective experiences.
The inherent chaos of such a time can otherwise be described as a dumpster fire of epic proportions; happening around the globe, in international waters, nationwide, and probably wherever you are taking in this delightfully irreverent, yet oddly inspiring, content.
Now that we are solidly two weeks deep into autumn, the slow regression of daylight becomes more apparent each evening; into spooky season we go.
*enter my resigned sigh here*
I've always been more of a night owl, and yet, for many years, also afraid of the dark.
#MakeItMakeSense
It has been a relatively recent re-realization in recognizing why I spent so much of my youth and young adulthood being equally captivated by and fearful of darkness.
As it turns out, my purpose has always been to be a light.
The settings in which I have worked continue to evolve, but my purpose hasn't.
I am discovering that I am here to illuminate possibilities for creating a safer foundation for the human experience, a stark contrast to what we are presented with through the lens of fear, division, and destruction.
When we, individually and collectively, are distracted by fear for long enough, daily living starts to feel burdensome, perhaps even like you are co-starring alongside the legendary Bill Murray, in a Halloween rendition of Groundhog Day.
And instead of preparing for a spooky season, we end up identifying with and existing in the heaviness which often accompanies fear in all its forms, and can be damn near impossible to identify and navigate alone.
Hence, the light metaphor I mentioned earlier...thanks, GUSS!
The thing about light is, it is meant to illuminate.
When light pierces darkness, the illusions of fear that were hidden and thriving in darkness, separate at lightening speed, scattering into oblivion.
Light begets creation; it makes space for something new.
One of the hardest things for me to remember about endings, is that each and every ending is followed by infinite opportunities to choose a new beginning, even during our spookiest seasons.
[IMAGE FROM ORIGINAL POST]
Stay tuned for Part 2!