What's on my calendar--February?
Feb. 3rd, 2005 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zdashamberAlas, didn't quite pop this up in time for the greatest benefit, but there's always next year. And I think I'll leave off birthdays in general unless they're admitted to on the web, so, Hi, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
obadiah!
So, what do I bother year after year to write on my calendar?
2nd: Purification
Candlemas -- candles blessed
Cross-Quarter Day
40th day of Christmas
5th:obadiah's Birthday
3rd week of February (beginning this year with the 20th): National Brotherhood Week
And that's it. Pretty darn sparse. Oh, well, I can at least add some discussion below the cut...
Candlemas. If I had candles to bless, I'd certainly have done so this year since I actually remembered, but they're not really sacred objects to me. I considered taking a nice beeswax candle out to burn in my car, give it a lovely scent for a few moments, but the dark walk over the glassy street required for that gave the idea to petering off.
Technically, I believe, the idea is for Catholic priests to bless all the candles they'll use in their church for the next year on this day. Which I believe ties into the other bit, Purification, (Perhaps the "Feast of"), which commemorates Mary getting to come out of isolation after having gone through the terribly sticky and apparently gross-beyond-belief-to-the-ancient-Hebrews process of birthing Jesus. Thus, also, the 40th day of Christmas, which I keep writing because it's just amusing to think of Christmas as an ever-ongoing celebration.
Now, National Brotherhood Week was easy to track down, once I got it into my head years back to do so. After all, "this year, ... on the first day of the week, Malcolm X was killed, which gives you an idea of how effective the whole thing is." Quick google gives Feb. 21, 1965; second google shows that was the 3rd week of February...
Something I'd write on the calendar if I didn't know it deep down: Feb 14th, St. Valentine's Day. I love Valentine's day. I love the celebration of love and happy relationships, I love the colors (heck, I really like red, white, and pink. They go together. They evoke niceness in me.), I love the shape of hearts. I love roses. Love the little chalk candies with bizarre sentiments on them (more for themselves, these days, than for their taste... Damn.). Never been in a relationship on Valentine's day, I think, but it never bugged me at all. People sniff about commercialization, but I don't mind that a bit, either.
Valentine's day may be in my top 5 for holidays. I'm quite looking forward to it. Maybe I'll cut out construction paper hearts and give them to someone. Maybe I'll even remember how to weave two colors of construction paper heart together. Good times. :D
Edit: Oh, and I haven't the foggiest what a cross-quarter day is. It sounds like an eighth of a year, halfway between the solstice and an equinox, which would make it well worth noting, but I haven't gotten around to looking it up. Still, neat name, eh?
obadiah!So, what do I bother year after year to write on my calendar?
2nd: Purification
Candlemas -- candles blessed
Cross-Quarter Day
40th day of Christmas
5th:
obadiah's Birthday3rd week of February (beginning this year with the 20th): National Brotherhood Week
And that's it. Pretty darn sparse. Oh, well, I can at least add some discussion below the cut...
Candlemas. If I had candles to bless, I'd certainly have done so this year since I actually remembered, but they're not really sacred objects to me. I considered taking a nice beeswax candle out to burn in my car, give it a lovely scent for a few moments, but the dark walk over the glassy street required for that gave the idea to petering off.
Technically, I believe, the idea is for Catholic priests to bless all the candles they'll use in their church for the next year on this day. Which I believe ties into the other bit, Purification, (Perhaps the "Feast of"), which commemorates Mary getting to come out of isolation after having gone through the terribly sticky and apparently gross-beyond-belief-to-the-ancient-Hebrews process of birthing Jesus. Thus, also, the 40th day of Christmas, which I keep writing because it's just amusing to think of Christmas as an ever-ongoing celebration.
Now, National Brotherhood Week was easy to track down, once I got it into my head years back to do so. After all, "this year, ... on the first day of the week, Malcolm X was killed, which gives you an idea of how effective the whole thing is." Quick google gives Feb. 21, 1965; second google shows that was the 3rd week of February...
Something I'd write on the calendar if I didn't know it deep down: Feb 14th, St. Valentine's Day. I love Valentine's day. I love the celebration of love and happy relationships, I love the colors (heck, I really like red, white, and pink. They go together. They evoke niceness in me.), I love the shape of hearts. I love roses. Love the little chalk candies with bizarre sentiments on them (more for themselves, these days, than for their taste... Damn.). Never been in a relationship on Valentine's day, I think, but it never bugged me at all. People sniff about commercialization, but I don't mind that a bit, either.
Valentine's day may be in my top 5 for holidays. I'm quite looking forward to it. Maybe I'll cut out construction paper hearts and give them to someone. Maybe I'll even remember how to weave two colors of construction paper heart together. Good times. :D
Edit: Oh, and I haven't the foggiest what a cross-quarter day is. It sounds like an eighth of a year, halfway between the solstice and an equinox, which would make it well worth noting, but I haven't gotten around to looking it up. Still, neat name, eh?
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Date: 2005-02-04 08:54 pm (UTC)National Brotherhood Week
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