Holiday Adulting

Spent this weekend watching a thought-provoking documentary and then hanging around a bonfire with friends to celebrate Halloween.

Gone are the days when we used to take our kids, costumes unrecognizable under the bundled layers to keep them warm, trick or treating. Now, our kids are doing their own thing, and we gather with our friends to share good food, drinks, and stories. I do get nostalgic for those days when we saw the night when the veil between the spirit world and our own is the thinnest through the excited eyes of our children. But it's nice getting to experience it from the adult side. Now, the spooks are more corporeal (I've voted, but I'm refusing to worry about what the election results will be like this week). The candy to take the sting from the trick leaves us tired and our bodies aching the next day.

We are on to the next season of our lives.

I also watched You Can See Everything, the Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim "documentary." I put that word in quotes, because it left out a lot of context for the story of Elizabeth Holmes. Or it assumed that you already had that context going in. If you don't have that context, you should definitely watch the numerous other documentaries that have been put out and listen to the recent interview Tyler Shulzt did on the Search Engine podcast. The fraud she was convicted of did actually harm people.

It was a great movie, so I do recommend seeing it. But keep that context in mind when you find yourself mesmerized by Holmes staring at you through the screen saying that she's never lied in her life.