"By designating Lunar New Year as an official school holiday, we are taking an important step in recognizing the importance of New York’s AAPI community and the rich diversity that makes New York so great," Hochul said. "It is not just a day off from school – it is an opportunity for our children to learn about and celebrate their own or different cultures and traditions."
Your children are all so excited about #TheHolidays, and we have some amazing and fun activities planned at #school for this #festive#season.
We are decorating classrooms for the #holidays. If you have any spare #holiday#decorations to donate, please feel free to put it in your child’s backpack and they will have a second life beautifying our classrooms.
I started with the months with fewest #holidays: Shvat, Sivan, Cheshvan, Kislev, and Tammuz (for those of you who use the Pope Gregory calendar, those fall around: January, August, December, June, and July).
Now I'm just doing the hard part, #TheHolidaySeason: Adar A & B and Nisan (~ March-May on Pope Gregory's calendar), when EVERYONE has an important #holiday or two.
Nooormally I put all the epag beads directly to the God of the Year's statue, and dress my Wepwawet statues appropriately (dark blue is this year's color), but two things happened: 1) I had to buy a proper statue for Nefertem, so that's still not here yet, and 2) I went to make my bead dressings and -did not have the beads I thought I did-.
The fun thing about the Kemetic #NewYear is that it happens not at midnight, but at dawn, so you can't just pass off a quick "3-2-1- Happy New Year" at 12am and go to bed, no no... RA or bust, bitches. 🤣
(no one has to stay up all night to be clear, but some people do -- I doubt I will be one of them with my level of perpetual tiredness)
We're almost there, and as usual PST is one of the loneliest timezones headed into the New Year, be that Kemetic, or secular.
#MythologyMonday: „For our #Celtic ancestors, the day began with the fall of dusk. Therefore, their #NewYear began with the arrival of the dark season, Winter. Some say this equates with a belief that life is born into the light from the darkness of the womb.“
Source: Ali Isaac
RT @scotteeedogg
The mighty Celtic Hill fort #Twmbarlwm beautifully silhouetted against an autumnal sunset
In #JapaneseFolklore, hatsuyume is the first dream of the new year. It's believed that if this dream includes Mount Fuji, a falcon and/or an eggplant then you'll have good luck. 🗻🦅🍆 #NewYear#HappyNewYear#ukiyoe#DailyFolklore#folklore#japodon
🎨'Young Couple with Lucky New Year Dream Symbols' - Suzuki Harunobu, 1769.