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Flip the Script on Holidays
Week Five: Flip the Script on Holidays
Day Twenty-nine:
“Festivals are occasions to empower ourselves in the course of humanity — they are the occasions to rekindle the promise of humanity in our heart — the promise that we keep forgetting in the cacophony of manmade labels.” ~Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till the World is Lifted
This is another topic that I am tiptoeing into and around because I know that there are emotional ties to different holidays that we have each celebrated as children and with family. Holidays are rich with memories and a wide range of feelings.
In the United States, we just celebrated Thanksgiving, a holiday that is connected with family and based on a moment in history when white settlers from Europe sat down with Indigenous people who had taught them what to plant and this was a sharing of harvest and abundance. More on this on another day…
To flip the script on holidays, festivals and annual celebrations, things you have participated in celebrating throughout your life are placed under a microscope and viewed from a telescope with questions.
Does this annual celebration still make sense to you? What has changed? What do you want to change? Are you grieving the loss of a holiday celebration that is no more? Are you…
