Happy New Year to those with a western European Background. If you come from a different tradition you celebrate a different beginning date. You have Chinese New Year and Jewish New Year. Down through history it has even moved around in the western tradition. It is kind of like the magnetic north pole.
I want you to know that I don’t believe in New Years Day like I do the resurrection which we celebrate on a date calculated by the lunar calendar. I lump it in with Valentines Day and Mothers’ Day. It is just a date picked to push a commercial agenda. It meshes well with my habit of washing my sheets on Saturday morning.
In spite of that I acknowledge it and go along with the festivities. Fortunately my wife does not expect expensive candy on New Years. A bottle of Martinelli’s, a summer sausage from Hickory Farms and a pizza from a local deli make the day work. As we get older I don’t even need to stay up until midnight.
So in case you stayed up to watch the nonsense on TV, I hope you had a good 12:01.
Happy New Year.
homo unius libri
As you probably know, "Easter" and Passover have BOTH been changed over the centuries. I doubt if anyone really knows when ANYTHING truly is anymore. Hope your newest year is "the bestest."
ReplyDeleteEaster is tied to Passover. The reason Passover changes is because it is tied to the lunar calender which is based on the phases of the moon not the rising of the sun. But then you knew that. But anyone else reading this might not.
DeleteGrace and peace.