Leaving For Another Year

[plumtreeblossom]

Last night in RiteAid they were taking down all the Christmas stuff and making a Valentines's display. I hate it when Christmas goes away. It's always been my favorite time of year, and it doesn't feel right that it all leads up to only one day. I wish it was a twelve day festival as it was in medieval times, as well as in many of its pre-Christian incarnations. At the onset of winter in temperate climates, it's human nature to crave light and warmth, and its coming also fosters the longing for a period in the year when norms are relaxed, and something can be celebrated. Hanukkah is over, too, but it does get the multi-day thing right. It is winter. I still want more winter festival.

Comments

[ron_newman]

> Valentine's Day

Isn't there something else we should be joyously celebrating first? On January 20?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Obamamas!

[(Anonymous)]

Yikes! The fundamentalists would have a lot of fun with that one. The "antichrist" masquerading as the messiah, they would say. As written in the book of Revelation.

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

You mean February 1, don't you? ;)

[ron_newman]

? I'm baffled.

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

The greatest of all American holidays, of course: Super Bowl Sunday!

[ron_newman]

I can't imagine too many folks in New England caring about that this winter, let alone celebrating it ...

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

That's the day when we go have tapas at Dali, because it's actually possible to walk inside and get a table right away!

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

See, we all celebrate, in different ways. :)

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

L and I went to Oasis (a Brazilian place) to avoid the super bowl crowds and they were showing the Rio Carnival parade instead. Sweet.