A very serious column.
and so on -- so much as what all these annual festivals and their accompanying folk superstitions actually mean.
On one level, it’s just fun -- silly, old-timey, folksy community fun, and that’s fully OK. We need fun, and these festivals harken back to a time before street-level, real-time weather forecasting, when folks relied on things like theBut why do we care? If we know spring must eventually come, why do we need to know if it will begin right now or not for another six weeks? For me, it’s about hope, and the need we humans have for signs.
It’s the same reasons we read horoscopes, which I have no shame in telling you were the first thing I turned to each day, back when I held a paper in my hand each day. I know astrology is a folk science and the horoscopes are entertainment, but it didn’t stop me from starting my morning looking for a “good” horoscope.. I play the little word game that’s sweeping the Internet with my first cup of coffee, the way some folks play Sudoku or a crossword to fire up their brain.
What little daily rituals do you use to keep yourself going, or to get your mind right for the day ahead? As always, my email box awaits! Also this week, an unlucky address, Minnie’s pantsuit, if you’re 50 and you know it grab a shovel, no skiing atIt’s a sure test of where you fall on the generational continuum whether you get the
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