happyI like having multiple New Years. It gives me the chance to try again if I feel like this one isn't working out (although strict application of the math involved may well mean that I'm in my sixties). I like the fact that everything is different today than it was yesterday, even if everything is also exactly the same.
I hope you all had a fantastic Halloween, whether it's something you celebrate or something you endure or something you barely notice until it's over and the basic cable stations stop showing endless horror movie marathons and repeats of Hocus Pocus. I hope you ran amok, or didn't, as your heart prefers. I hope you spent some time in the cornfield of your heart, remembering the sweetness of the season.
From all of us here (mostly me and the cats) to all of you out there, Happy New Year. Welcome to November.
It's going to be a good year.
November 1 2012, 16:03:06 UTC 4 years ago
Halloween is exactly equal to Christmas.
31 oct = 25 dec
thirty-one in base 8 = twenty-five in base 10
Secondly, I've been thinking a lot about WHY this is my favorite holiday and ... a lot of that is the dress-up aspect but that's not the most important part. It's the spiritualism. No, not the fake bible-thumping "Devil-worship" bunco, but the underlying spiritualism, the feeding of the hungry wandering spirits, the remembrance of our dead, the placating of the unknown by means of a show of open-handed generousity to beggars at the door.
I think, though, that what appeals to me most of all about this holiday as celebrated in the USofA is the universality. This is the only celebration that I know of that occurs in the immediate neighbourhood with everyone (well, most everyone) living "within the bounds" participating - regardless of ethnicity, of religion, of sexuality or gender.
November 2 2012, 16:45:58 UTC 4 years ago