Image by Sophie Lagacé 2013, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Based on a photo © Edmund Metheny 2013, used with permission.
Day: December 3, 2013
Humanist Advent Calendar
My friend Chris Owens posted this list and an invitation to rethink Christmas. Naturally, this was directed at Christians (Chris is a Methodist pastor) but since they are human concepts and values, I thought I (barely?) qualified to participate. 🙂
I just think it’s a wonderful thing when we’re all celebrate the rebirth of light, totally coincidentally around the time of winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere; I was pleased that Hanukkah was beginning the night before American Thanksgiving this year.
Thus, I’ll try to contribute an image a day, though I suspect I will feel more inclined to create gesture drawings than photos. Oh, and for reference, here is my big list of holidays to celebrate:
November
3 – Diwali
4-5 – Al-Hijra (Islamic New Year)
14 – Day of Ashura
17 – Life Day
27-Dec. 5 – Hanukkah
28 – American Thanksgiving
December
? (when convenient) – Pastafarian Holiday
1-24 – Advent
6 – National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (Canada)
8 – Bodhi Day
10 – Human Rights Day
21-25 – Pancha Ganapati
21 – Winter Solstice
23 – Festivus
24 – Christmas Eve
25 – Christmas
25 – Natalis Invicti
25 – Yule
26-Jan.1 – Kwanzaa
26 – Boxing Day
27 – Kepler’s Day (That’s mine)
31 – New Year’s Eve
32 – Hogswatchnight
January
1 – New Year’s Day
5 – Twelfth Night
6 – Epiphany
13-14 – Mawlid al-Nabi
31 – Chinese New Year – Year of the Horse
The Reef 