Marchamundo Day 5
See! This is what I mean, sixteen things celebrated on The fourth, and only six today, and I had to beat the bushes to find those six! We could afford to space some of these days out a little more. But we are here to celebrate, not to complain!
So start out with introspection because this is,...
Discover What Your Name Means Day! You can find out by going to your bank and asking for a reduction on your note and stating your name. That is a really fast way to find out what your name means! But for a lot of people, just google it. For some people this will be redundant coming a day after Unique Names Day. But, what the heck, celebrate it anyway.
National Absinthe Day! Woo Hoo! If you have real Absinthe it is one of the strongest and oddest concoctions you will ever have. If you can afford it, then you probably don't have genuine. Genuine Absinthe used to be illegal almost everyplace in the world because it is alcoholic--you knew that--narcotic, bet you didn't know that, and halucinogenic. Three in one. I'll bet it used to be very popular on World Wild Life Day. It is also a cumulative poison, but why be so dour. It is really expensive to produce the original, but now there are supposedly copies of it that are non-narcotic, non-halucinogenic, and taking all the fun out of it, probably not poisonous either. It is a famous high. The artist Toulouse Lautrec loved it and said of it, "Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder." I'll go with a cold Wisconsin beer instead, but not today, because today is,...
Ash Wednesday! The first day of Lent. All the fun food left the house yesterday. Now we put away our self-oriented desires and discipline ourselves body and soul. Alcohol only on Sundays. Sundays are still a celebration, so ordinary discipline may be suspended. On Sunday I might have some alcohol on a sundae, because ice cream will also be back on the menu. Brandy on vanilla sounds good. But today, ashes as a sign of repentance. Get them free at a church near you.
Saint Piran's Day! Named for an Irish Saint and the patron of tin miners and of Cornwall. Not sure how to celebrate it, since I'm not from Cornwall and I'm not a tin minor. But it is also,...
Saint Kieran's Day. Also Irish and considered one of the "Apostles of Ireland", and according to some it's first saint (before even well honored Saint Pat himself who is a little later in the batting order--March 17th). Kieran was a pal of Piran and possibly one of his teachers. I guess if you celebrate Ash Wednesday you are probably good with the celebration of these dudes. It's what they would do.
Multiple Personality Day! Are you kidding me? Does anyone want to celebrate this? How would you celebrate this? I was a psychotherapist for years and had patients with this diagnosis, and I can tell you for sure, they aren't celebrating. Not any of them, and not any of them either. But, maybe this is just a call to be aware of the diagnosis. I think they would all just rather have a day off. Celebrate it by taking a break.
Kieran and Piran, pray for us.
