Autumn Is Really Like. I Brought You Some Sunlight From When You Were 10. Didn't The World Feel So Bright

autumn is really like. i brought you some sunlight from when you were 10. didn't the world feel so bright to you then? i'll drench your hands in syrupy nostalgia, so everything you make is stained bittersweet. i'll ruffle your hair with an ice-kissed breeze--it'll be the kindest touch you've had in years. you finally feel like a part of something grander. i'm the last warm hand you hold before winter surrender.

So you know how ghosts are people that didn’t pass on correctly?

Consider this.

Ghosts that are ghosts because they weren’t given proper burials.

Being given a proper burial is a super important thing in like every culture throughout history. The one I’m thinking about the most right now is how ancient Greeks would be buried with coins on their eyes or in their mouth so they could pay the ferryman to take them into the afterlife.

Hell, in also Greek mythology it’s said that the spirits of the dead would come back to haunt the living if they weren’t given a proper burial.

So imagine a ghost whose whole obsession is being buried properly and being given the proper care that it deserves in death because it wasn’t given a proper burial.

Reading the lives of many of the saints, some of them seem almost inhuman. That’s why I’m glad there’s a saint like Joseph of Cupertino, who is known, among other things, for being kind of a dumbass.

He frequently forgot what he was told to do, dropped piles of dishes, found exams “difficult and stressful,” and was generally regarded as “remarkably unclever.” He passed his seminary exams by miraculously only being asked questions he knew. He’s the patron saint of students sitting exams and people with learning disabilities (also pilots, because he was prone to levitation). 

“O Great St. Joseph of Cupertino who while on earth did obtain from God the grace to be asked at your examination only the questions you knew, obtain for me a like favour in the examinations for which I am now preparing.”

Who are you in this haunted house story? everyone is either haunted or haunting…

There are 31 days until HALLOWEEN

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