still not christmas yet?
no, but so close i can feel it.
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“a good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.”
-j. b. priestley
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art credit: e. halpin
Dec24
Category Archives: holidays
Dec22
all is bright.
out seeing the lights tonight.
may you and your family be filled with light and laughter.
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“always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
-e.b. white
Nov27
remembered.
4 of the 6-pack taking their turn in group charades.
6 of the 6-pack will have different memories of thanksgiving.
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“it’s like your children talking about holidays,
you find they have quite a different memory of it from you.
perhaps everything is not how it is,
but how it is remembered.”
-denis norden
Nov12
happy hour.
friends on november 12th celebrating national happy hour day to the fullest.
why limit happiness to just one hour?
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note: happy hour began as an event in the military.
it is believed that the term comes from events organized
by a club called the happy hour social for the United States Navy in 1913.
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“fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.”
-william shakespeare
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image credit: google images
May5
feliz.
feliz cinco de mayo
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“live every day as it is a festival. turn your life into a celebration.”
-shri radhe maa
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image credit: accordingtodevin.com
Apr4
easter greeting.
“the rabbit of easter. he bring of the chocolate.”
-david sedaris
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image credit: pinterest vintage cards
Mar17
enchanted.
“st. patrick’s day is an enchanted time –
a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic.”
-adrienne cook (master gardener)
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image credit: facebook
Feb12
ox.
“one ox, two oxen. one fox, two foxen.”
jenny lawson
Happy Chinese New Year in the year of the Ox- 2021!
Celebrated at the second new moon following the Winter Solstice,
Chinese New Year is also known as the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival.
According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar,
this festival marks the end of winter and the beginning of a long-awaited spring!
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image credit: fairycake fair, tokyo station, japantimes.com
Feb2
phil.
puxatawny phil with some other (less famous) celebs.
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it’s his big day, and one of my favorite fun holidays
no matter what he predicts
about the coming of spring
(*not sure about his accuracy)
i love his spirit.
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*the national climatic data center compared U.S. national temperatures from 1988 to 2012 to determine the accuracy of Phil’s predictions, and he’s only been proven correct 39% of the time — significantly worse than chance.
Dec20
overlapping.
today while out shopping for christmas
i unexpectedly ran into my old friend,
valentine’s day.
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“i had that curious feeling that i was living on several planes simultaneously;
the overlapping of these planes was confusing.”
-anna kavan
I didn't have my glasses on.... 