Bless These Crops
Posted on | March 23, 2008 at 11:39 am | 5 Comments
Ah… Easter. Easter’s a great holiday for non-believers, as long as you can get out of attending church services. It’s a lot like Thanksgiving… go somewhere, be with family, no gift-giving (except maybe some marshmallow peeps), eat a fabulous meal, maybe get a little drunk. Yeah, there’s no football on TV, but them’s the breaks. The only thing that would make it better would be getting a day off from work. (I don’t get Good Friday off.) I just look at it as a celebration of the beginning of Spring, much like the pagans of old before the festivals were co-opted by the Christians. I guess I’m not alone in this type of thinking, as it appears some institutions have renamed it “Spring Holiday” in order to secularize it. That’s a little silly, but whatever.
Anyway, have fun with eggs!
Latre.
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5 Responses to “Bless These Crops”
March 23rd, 2008 @ 2:45 pm
It’s a much bigger deal in Australia for some reason – employees get a 4-day weekend, and your wife gets very disappointed if you don’t hide some eggs even if she’s not in the least religious.
But there IS swimming on TV, which is – for some? – as good or better than “footy”…
March 23rd, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
To confirm, swimming is MUCH better than footy.
Love it!
Wetty xxxx
March 23rd, 2008 @ 7:23 pm
Okay, I’m afraid I don’t understand the whole strange Australian swimming/footy thing.
March 24th, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
Swimming is an Olympic sport, one we as a nation excel at.
Footy is proper Aussie Rules football. No pansy helmets, no poofy padding. Just raw man thumping brutality at it’s best. The ladies like it cause the shorts are tiny!
Faheyx
March 24th, 2008 @ 11:16 pm
what’s silly is people claiming that referring to Easter “Spring Holiday” secularizes it.