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arturis

The Change of Seasons

Dec 23, 2008 22:42

Last Sunday was the Solstice, the beginning of winter. Here, it was preceded by about 6" of total snow accumulation and several days below -20C. It used to be that the Solstice was Midwinter, and winter officially begin on the cross-quarter day in early November, a holiday which I believe migrated over time to become Halloween. Winter officially ( Read more... )

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project627 December 24 2008, 05:27:21 UTC

Welcome to my club. It's nice here, much less ridiculous expectations and way more actual celebration.

voxen December 24 2008, 05:28:59 UTC

I decided today that my belief system/"life stance" is basically Humanist. They have the option of celebrating the (embarrassingly Wookie-esque) HumanLight tonight. What's funny is that since Humanists reject dogma, there is not actually any specific tradition for it, or recommendations beyond "have a party".

They also celebrate Darwin Day (Feb 12) and Humanist Day on June 21st (to be on or around the Solstice).

gut December 24 2008, 08:58:39 UTC

Feel free to join us over at Jewish-Atheist-Asian-X-Mas.

scoutinthenight December 24 2008, 13:32:37 UTC

I'm with you on this. I've pretty much always found Valentine's Day to be useless, have disliked Christmas for years, and the only value I find from Easter is that when I start to see decorations and candy for it I know MiniCon is coming up. The only good thing about Christmas is getting a couple payed vacation days, but since it's snowed the past couple years I haven't even been able to sleep in since I need to be out of the apartment parking lot before they plow.

anadamous December 24 2008, 15:11:31 UTC

When we're talking about the seasons, I think it would be a little more logical to have winter and summer be longer than spring and fall. Winter something like November - March, Spring April and May, summer June through August, fall September and October. The transitional periods are just not as long.

When I was growing up, it always used to snow at least once in the first week of November - I noticed this without fail since my birthday is November 7th. Now winter is starting later, so I'm willing to let winter slide to December.

It just seems crazy to refer to say, Dec 18 as "late fall".

scoutinthenight December 24 2008, 19:34:14 UTC

Sacrilege! Fall is the best season, it's not just some transitory period!