Firsts of the Year

[ada_hoffmann]

I love calendars, and I love holidays. There’s something about breaking up time into repeating patterns that appeals to my sense of order. Back when I went to church I loved the liturgical calendar, with each season having a different spiritual focus. When I’ve gone through phases of being curious about paganism, the Wheel of the Year has been one of the ideas that appealed to me most, because it’s sort of the same. When time is separated into units like years or months or seasons then you can think of it differently; you can reflect about what happened in a unit, like it’s a chapter in a story, instead of just a conglomeration of days with different things happening in them.

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Comments

[rhoda_rants]

Marking time really is satisfying in a very specific way. I have little "holidays" throughout the year that I tend to celebrate by watching various movies. Valentine's is Rewatch Crimson Peak Day. Mardis Gras is Interview With the Vampire Day.

Also, and this is something you kind of touched on in your full post, even though every little thing doesn't have to have it's own day, there's something to be said for compartmentalizing. It makes the rest of the year easier to face somehow.

[ada_hoffmann]

Celebrating holidays with movies is a great idea! (Reminds me of people's tendency to watch Christmas movies at Christmas, but I don't see it discussed for other holidays as much.)

[rhoda_rants]

Oh, I have several! There are counts nearly half a dozen movies that are classified as "Summer" and I try to watch them on Solstice week, or weekend, depending on where the day falls. Currently I have a stack of "Winter" movies from the library piled up on my nightstand. And then there's October, which is a whole thing.

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