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Originally Posted by Gpsma
Any special foods or celbrations? Any parties?
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I don’t celebrate Mother’s Day because my mother is dead.
I don’t celebrate Cinco de Mayo, even though I like Mexico and Mexicans, because I have no Mexican ancestry.
I don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day because it isn’t celebrated in Ireland.
I don’t celebrate Mardi Gras because I also don’t celebrate Lent or Ash Wednesday or Easter.
I don’t celebrate Hanukkah because I’m not Jewish.
I liked celebrating Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday, but I resent having them combined into one so we can have MLK’s Birthday as a holiday. There are several other presidential birthdays I’d be happy to celebrate, such as Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Grant. I’d also celebrate General Sherman’s birthday, if I could.
I don’t celebrate any pride days or weeks or months as I’ll leave them to those for whom they are appropriate.
I don’t celebrate Halloween because I think the dead are dead.
I don’t celebrate Kwanzaa, invented in 1966 after the Watts riots.
I don’t celebrate Juneteenth because I’m not part of the fourteen percent for whom it was created. I consider it a phoney holiday, but I’m happy to let people enjoy it peacefully.
I guess I’m not much for celebrations. On Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, I stay home and think about those who sacrificed for us all. I usually spend Thanksgiving on a beach in Mexico. I spend Christmas with some of my family in Denver. That’s really the only one where any celebration happens.
Bah! Humbug!