How about a yearly celebration of all life from cockroaches and swallows to elephants, cucumbers, jellyfish and humans? A secular holiday dedicated to feeling good about being part of this great family. A day to be aware of what we sometimes do with great gusto; abusing and or wantonly killing any creature we can lay our hands on. A day to hear from and honour those who study and protect life. For some it might be a day of sipping mineral water, for most of us a day we eat what we want while being a bit more clued up about what we consume. As predation, creatures eating other creatures, is essential for life and has always driven evolution, its fitting that the festivity should include, for those who want it, a strong gastronomic element. So, a day of fasting or feasting of big dances and concerts of conferences and gatherings on life, evolution, extinction, the lot.
Because I live in the northern hemisphere, I reckon bleakish early February would be good time for Lifeday. Say the first Saturday in February. So the dark winter would be broken by Christmas, New Year and then a month later Lifeday. I like it!
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When Gorgo was asked why it was that of all the women of Greece, the Spartans had the greatest freedoms, she replied " We make real men " *****. " If you educate a man you educate an individual. If you educate a woman you get an educated nation." James. E. Kwegyir-Aggrey.
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