This little confection appeared in the morning sunshine on our front door today, courtresy of the female members of the household. It's one good use for a goose egg (centre). The others were stencilled & painted by little hands over the last two days.
Happy Easter to all MUG wearers.
Tom K.
Easter Greetings
Easter Greetings
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That's cool. Far better than anything from big retail mart!
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Tom K:
I heard on a radio news report about a high school girl who was working as a teacher's aide in a grammer school class, 2nd. or 3rd. grade, I think. She brought in a Easter Basket loaded with colored Easter Eggs to give out to the children. She was informed that to be "correct" she had to refer to the eggs as "Spring Festival" eggs.
What is this crazy world coming to?
I respect everyone elses religions and personal beliefs. But........
I don't know!
How much harm does "Easter Eggs" bring about. A good friend is Jewish and she puts a tree every year in Dec.
The USA supports the rights of all religions but all the religions don't support the righits of each other! To bad!
Anyway, Happy Easter everyone! Hope it is a nice, sunny, Spring Sunday for whatever you want to do that day!
Dennis A. Lederle
p.s. I know! I couldn't find an Easter icon in the smiles!
I heard on a radio news report about a high school girl who was working as a teacher's aide in a grammer school class, 2nd. or 3rd. grade, I think. She brought in a Easter Basket loaded with colored Easter Eggs to give out to the children. She was informed that to be "correct" she had to refer to the eggs as "Spring Festival" eggs.
What is this crazy world coming to?
I respect everyone elses religions and personal beliefs. But........
I don't know!
How much harm does "Easter Eggs" bring about. A good friend is Jewish and she puts a tree every year in Dec.
The USA supports the rights of all religions but all the religions don't support the righits of each other! To bad!
Anyway, Happy Easter everyone! Hope it is a nice, sunny, Spring Sunday for whatever you want to do that day!
Dennis A. Lederle
p.s. I know! I couldn't find an Easter icon in the smiles!
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Dennis, I have lots of Jewish friends and colleagues. Their Passover occurs at our Easter time, so to them I wish a happy Passover
Mind you, I've never heard of the term 'Passover Eggs'. I suppose the Spring Festival description is somewhat akin to 'Happy Holiday' at Christmastide.
Tom K
Mind you, I've never heard of the term 'Passover Eggs'. I suppose the Spring Festival description is somewhat akin to 'Happy Holiday' at Christmastide.
Tom K
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Tom -- Nice door ornament!
Easter (note the close similarity with estrus or fertility) coincides very well with the spring festivals that preceded planting and symbolised the hope of a fertile and successful harvest. Eggs (which overtly suggest reproduction and ferrtility) and bunny-rabbits (which breed, well, like rabbits) also -- neither of which have very much to do with the life of a Jewish carpenter. The springtime also marks the end of the rigourous and dangerous winter season and meant that it was over for those who survived it, and its privations would soon be past.
Likewise, Christmas coincides very closely to when folks would notice that days were just beginning to get longer indicating some level of hope that the darkness, cold, and privation would be soon over. That the worst of the winter was still ahead could offer little cheer, but the turn of sunlight was something to celebrate, hence the long tradition of bonfires and lights. Again, this has little to do with a little Jewish kid in the desert.
Thanksgiving, a purely United States and, odder still, a completely secular notion, coincides perfectly with the completion of the final harvest of the season meaning that the hard and brutish work of agriculture was over for the year, and that there was, for a little while, an abundance of food at hand that might have exceeded what needed to be preserved for the rapidly-approaching winter and its threats to life. I do not know if there is a European analogue to this.
Whether we realise it or not -- or even if we're uncomfortable with it -- most things that happen around us do so for a reason, and this is especially true for man-made notions like holidays and festivals. One just needs to look hard enough. With apologies to our friends in the antipodes, I admit that this was written from a decidedly Northern Hemisphere point of view, but the Northern Hemisphere types did pretty well cover the planet afterwards and got to write a lot of history in the process.
In any event, to those who celebrate Easter -- Happy Easter -- and to those who celebrate Passover -- Happy Passover. The rest of us can finally celebrate that we're out of the worst that winter has to offer, although it was 30 degrees F (-1 C) this morning which means it'll be a few more hours before we let the chickens out into their runs....
If one takes the deep view of things it becomes plain that celebrations have always been held by humans at important times of the year -- and this includes way before there were such things as organised religions with set Holy days (holidays).Kirbstone wrote:I suppose the Spring Festival description is somewhat akin to 'Happy Holiday' at Christmastide.
Easter (note the close similarity with estrus or fertility) coincides very well with the spring festivals that preceded planting and symbolised the hope of a fertile and successful harvest. Eggs (which overtly suggest reproduction and ferrtility) and bunny-rabbits (which breed, well, like rabbits) also -- neither of which have very much to do with the life of a Jewish carpenter. The springtime also marks the end of the rigourous and dangerous winter season and meant that it was over for those who survived it, and its privations would soon be past.
Likewise, Christmas coincides very closely to when folks would notice that days were just beginning to get longer indicating some level of hope that the darkness, cold, and privation would be soon over. That the worst of the winter was still ahead could offer little cheer, but the turn of sunlight was something to celebrate, hence the long tradition of bonfires and lights. Again, this has little to do with a little Jewish kid in the desert.
Thanksgiving, a purely United States and, odder still, a completely secular notion, coincides perfectly with the completion of the final harvest of the season meaning that the hard and brutish work of agriculture was over for the year, and that there was, for a little while, an abundance of food at hand that might have exceeded what needed to be preserved for the rapidly-approaching winter and its threats to life. I do not know if there is a European analogue to this.
Whether we realise it or not -- or even if we're uncomfortable with it -- most things that happen around us do so for a reason, and this is especially true for man-made notions like holidays and festivals. One just needs to look hard enough. With apologies to our friends in the antipodes, I admit that this was written from a decidedly Northern Hemisphere point of view, but the Northern Hemisphere types did pretty well cover the planet afterwards and got to write a lot of history in the process.
In any event, to those who celebrate Easter -- Happy Easter -- and to those who celebrate Passover -- Happy Passover. The rest of us can finally celebrate that we're out of the worst that winter has to offer, although it was 30 degrees F (-1 C) this morning which means it'll be a few more hours before we let the chickens out into their runs....
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Very nice door ornament! It reminds me of the Native American Dreamcatcher.
Carl is right; Spring has had a relapse today. Very chilly and raw.
Happy Passover, Easter and Orthodox Easter and whatever you celebrate at this time of year.
Carl is right; Spring has had a relapse today. Very chilly and raw.
Happy Passover, Easter and Orthodox Easter and whatever you celebrate at this time of year.
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Nice essay Carl. You've wrapped all the relevant points of view up nicely and there's probably nothing more to add.
Yes, Diana, I was not amazed at my Menagerie Mistress's motivation of our visiting grandchildren to produce that door decoration.....she ran a nursery school for many years and until recently ran the arts & crafts dept. of our local Paul Newman founded Hole-in-the-wall gang camp for seriously ill children.
After our driest March for decades here, April so far has been more like July, with afternoon temps up to 72 degrees F., but chilly nights still. We dined out on our terrace last evening and also last week end. That's fine up to about 8.30 pm while the Sun is still there, but later on it chills down markedly and we retire inside to the roaring open fire.
Tom K.
Yes, Diana, I was not amazed at my Menagerie Mistress's motivation of our visiting grandchildren to produce that door decoration.....she ran a nursery school for many years and until recently ran the arts & crafts dept. of our local Paul Newman founded Hole-in-the-wall gang camp for seriously ill children.
After our driest March for decades here, April so far has been more like July, with afternoon temps up to 72 degrees F., but chilly nights still. We dined out on our terrace last evening and also last week end. That's fine up to about 8.30 pm while the Sun is still there, but later on it chills down markedly and we retire inside to the roaring open fire.
Tom K.
Carpe Diem......Seize the Day !