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To: Tax-chick
So, does anyone have any interesting New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day traditions?

Not much here. We replace the Ordo Kalendar(s).

Often we join Slighe nan Gaidheal (Seattle's Gaelic Society) for Hogmanay (Scottish New Year celebrations) -- a daylong movable festival where, at each host's home, we go through the "First-Footing" (a tradition that says it is luck for the first visitor to enter the house to be a tall dark-haired man carrying coal and whisky) and the subsequent ceilidh (party). A decade or more ago when much of SnG lived on Capitol Hill in Seattle I'd pipe them from location to location, but we're more spread out out now.

Not sure how much my health will hold out this year. I *really* need to be well by my return to work Monday, because I will be be in big trouble if I am not.

152 posted on 12/31/2009 6:11:41 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: sionnsar

The catz aren’t very interested in our tree, and Frank would rather slither around the rooms looking for papers to much, so I guess we can keep it up until Epiphany (the 6th, not the 3rd). We’ve still got the outdoor lights up, too. A lot of the neighborhood has: I suppose they put so much effort into them, they don’t want to take them down immediately.

I think of lot of holiday customs, like your Hogmanay or the Spanish posadas, work much better in a geographically-constricted community, rather than one where people can attend the same church but live an hour away from each other. You end up having to hold events at church, but it’s not the same.


161 posted on 12/31/2009 6:46:51 PM PST by Tax-chick (Yo quiero a bailar en Mexico.)
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