2005: Celebrated Agnostica. Gave gifts of holy wine and an invocation set for The Trio (a set of three divine entities who represent the laws of physics as incarnated in a trio of 10-year-old girls, from a story setting I work on with my art teacher in Australia). I decorated with mobius strips.
2006: Went home to celebrate Hanukkah. It was a lot of fun, but I didn't get to focus on it quite as much as I'd have liked to. My parents didn't get in to it, and I only decorated with the menorah, so it felt a bit drab. Had a ton of fun with the creative gifts at the end, though.
Every year prior was Christmas with my family.
I've also discovered that saying "Happy Hanukkah" with a happy smile really confuses people - the phrase sort of suggests that one has just been insulted by the typical "Merry Christmas", but the smile counters that and leaves them just faintly puzzled. I'd feel horribly rude doing it without the smile, though!!
I'm trying to figure out what to do for 2007. I've done Yule and Winter Solstance casually in the past, and I want to try something new. I'm thinking of founding a new holiday that meets the goals of what I'm looking for, at this point.
One of these days, when I'm living with someone as insane as I am, I really do want to celebrate a complete set of religious holidays, from a different religion each year. There are so many seriously interesting holidays out there that I just never really get to take advantage of!
(Yes, the notion of a holy day being sacred is lost on me. I celebrated Christmas as an Agnostic, why not all the others?)
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Date: 2007-09-23 02:47 am (UTC)2006: Went home to celebrate Hanukkah. It was a lot of fun, but I didn't get to focus on it quite as much as I'd have liked to. My parents didn't get in to it, and I only decorated with the menorah, so it felt a bit drab. Had a ton of fun with the creative gifts at the end, though.
Every year prior was Christmas with my family.
I've also discovered that saying "Happy Hanukkah" with a happy smile really confuses people - the phrase sort of suggests that one has just been insulted by the typical "Merry Christmas", but the smile counters that and leaves them just faintly puzzled. I'd feel horribly rude doing it without the smile, though!!
I'm trying to figure out what to do for 2007. I've done Yule and Winter Solstance casually in the past, and I want to try something new. I'm thinking of founding a new holiday that meets the goals of what I'm looking for, at this point.
One of these days, when I'm living with someone as insane as I am, I really do want to celebrate a complete set of religious holidays, from a different religion each year. There are so many seriously interesting holidays out there that I just never really get to take advantage of!
(Yes, the notion of a holy day being sacred is lost on me. I celebrated Christmas as an Agnostic, why not all the others?)