• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    Totally. I think it’s useful to have agriculturally based holidays for this purpose. Even if they’re ultimately detached from their original purpose (i.e. I don’t really need to know when the time to plant trees comes around), it’s useful to have these celebrations with seasonally specific rituals to mark the passage of time.

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      9 months ago

      Tu b shvat just passed. It’s the Jewish holiday celebrating the birthday of trees. There’s snow on the ground where I live, we still celebrate and plant seedlings in the spring to follow up. I just like trees and it means spring is around the corner which is nice too.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah - a few years ago I moved to an area where the Robins returning meant the start of spring. They were here last week.

  • Noit@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Last night I stuck all the major meteor showers into my calendar. I’d gone outside and seen stars and remembered how l much I love to see stars and I rarely stargaze nowadays. I’m going to make more of an effort, especially for the seasonal meteors.

    • Sereneca@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      You can add the NY Times astronomy calendar to your existing calendar if you don’t want to manually enter in data:

      subscribe to the interactive feed that adds the events to your personal digital calendar. Google users can click on this link to subscribe. Apple iCloud and Outlook users may need to copy this URL and paste it into your digital calendar’s “add calendar” field to subscribe.

      https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2023/astronomy-space-calendar

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    9 months ago

    I’ve always done something like this, and it was odd to realize most people have no clue about nature’s rhythms.

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    9 months ago

    Today I heard bird noises when I woke up. I hate spring, and somehow we don’t even get birds that actually sing instead of voicing a monotone “cheep cheep cheep”.

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    9 months ago

    That sounds stressful to me. Like I don’t have enough to worry about without wondering where the fuck the birds went, or remember to water the magnolias.

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    9 months ago

    I look forward to autumn because the weather gets real nice on the southern hemisphere.