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October 1: spontaneous ceremony
On this day in Pen Pal, Kaya took an action to express grief. You might say she created a spontaneous ceremony.
I think people do this a lot. Prescribed rituals do give us a way to proclaim and honor our big feelings (the happy ones as well as the sad ones), but sometimes they're not enough; sometimes we need or want to go further. We want to make a personal statement. Or, like Kaya, we may not be in a position to engage in prescribed rituals.
Do you have any spontaneous ceremonies you've created that you can share? And did any then go on to become personal traditions? One of mine that I don't mind sharing, for instance, is doing a great bow (after the manner of the fairy queen in The Perilous Gard) in locations of great physical beauty would be one.
One that my kids do is bake cakes on the occasion of the birthdays of characters from anime or video games. I highly endorse that one!
I think people do this a lot. Prescribed rituals do give us a way to proclaim and honor our big feelings (the happy ones as well as the sad ones), but sometimes they're not enough; sometimes we need or want to go further. We want to make a personal statement. Or, like Kaya, we may not be in a position to engage in prescribed rituals.
Do you have any spontaneous ceremonies you've created that you can share? And did any then go on to become personal traditions? One of mine that I don't mind sharing, for instance, is doing a great bow (after the manner of the fairy queen in The Perilous Gard) in locations of great physical beauty would be one.
One that my kids do is bake cakes on the occasion of the birthdays of characters from anime or video games. I highly endorse that one!
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As for TR.
My parents have friends with two young daughters, one of whom (J) needed extra after-school help with her reading. She was 7. And one day K, the father, went to pick up the earlier-departing child and found both of them waiting to go home. "J, what's going on?" he said. "I told them I had to go home now," said J. "I told them our family had to celebrate Teddy Roosevelt's birthday." And her dad said, "Go back in there and do your after school reading help!"
Which, I said when I heard this, was the difference between her dad and my dad, because my dad? would totally have made me read up on how to celebrate Teddy Roosevelt's birthday. Which it actually was; the kid had that part right. But then we would have celebrated it, as a family.
So we got to talking about how to celebrate TR's birthday, and now when the weather and our healths permit, we go to a public park with a very large hill and charge up it. It's TR's birthday, but I think mostly what we're honoring is my father's style of parenting.
Is it October 27? Then it must be time to charge up a hill!
And his birthday turns out to be this month!
In honor of the Marissa Lingen ceremony for Teddy Roosevelt's birthday, I just might have to charge up a hill that day.