Celebration Day
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Celebration Day — twenty-seven
Celebration and gratitude have different faces, and a celebration is based on gratitudes. This spontaneous Celebration Day Series idea arose as the mere fruit of finding more and more reasons and results in celebrating the joys of life — that which has been, is, and will somehow perpetuate for as long as it inhabits and…
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Celebration Day — twenty-six
Many lives stay with us in spirit, memory, lessons, inspiration. Some stay with us even as measuring kingdoms. Jacqueline Mary du Pré was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, on the twenty-sixth of January of 1945. She could have never known that she, and her year would never be forgotten, and both would become significant in the…
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Celebration Day — twenty-four
We struggle, and glide in epistemological flights — intellectuals, scientists, creators, muses. Others may choose comfortable hammocks.
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Celebration Day — twenty-three
Today is handwriting day.
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Celebration Day — twenty-two
On this day of celebration I began working last year. After the planning began, the first physical step was realized on December 31st, as I put four lemons in a salt bad. Here is to the hummus from ancient times.
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Celebration Day — twenty-one
The Genesis of my peripheral attention is unknown to me. The term has been a familiar one since my childhood but at some point, perhaps through a self inflicted period of auto investigation, after two decades trusting a higher power, I look deeper and wider, breathe deeper and wider, my taste penetrates clearer and wider.…
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Celebration Day — twenty
Celebration: intentional acknowledgment admitting a reason for festivity to honor out of joy or sadness to observe a moment, a deed, a person or people the praise of an existence
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Celebration Day — nineteen
Joy. That is, perhaps, the true beginning of hedonism, as Aristippos intended it — a state which is truly there to elevate the spirit. Joy has deep roots, and long, bushy branches. Joy encompasses smiles and tears alike. On a given Wednesday, my daughter crossed the Atlantic to be with my father. He had tears…
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Celebration Day — eighteen
The most common day, the least anticipated moment, the most traveled path, the most reliable space, the very essence of a recurring motion, any security in being, all will likely become a new birth, if experienced with the intention to celebrate. A birthdate may otherwise be a mere compensation for the previous three hundred and…
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Five Famous Celebrations
Betty Marion White, 1922, in Oak Park, Illinois Eartha Kitt (Eartha Mae Keith), 1927 in St, Matthews, South Carolina James Earl Jones, 1931, in Arkabutla, Mississippi Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.), 1942, in Louisville Kentucky Michelle Obama (Michelle LaVaughn Robinson), 1964, in Chicago Illinois
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A celebration ought to be a moment of reflection, in purity, acknowledgement, gratitude.
Betty Marion White was born on this day in 1922, in Oak Park, Illinois. To celebrate this lively lady, no further comment is needed.
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Celebrate nothing
There is some Zen in the notion of instituting a National Nothing Day. Yes, today, January 16th, is listed as a day dedicated to the joy of celebrating nothing. Holidays Calendar
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Celebration Day — sixteen
For decades I have been on a journey of cleansing myself from empty, superficial, misleading, and cultural terms and words which do not express in essential detail what my thoughts and mindset are. The exclamation “a day like any other”, for example, is a total ignorance of what life is — per day, per second,…
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Celebration Day — fifteen, bagel
I hear that today is the National Bagel Day. Celebrate, people! If you do not care for bagels — like me — today is also the National Hat Day. And if bagels and hats are not your thing, today is also the National Strawberry Ice Cream Day. Be it a simple or a great one,…
Sila Blume 