I think we need some new traditions for New Years’, now that we’re all online and watching midnight slowly roll across our friends from one side of the world to the other in a big wave. The countdown is all well and good, of course. I’ll never turn down an excuse for a kiss! But something new and supplemental, to help bind together far-flung families and friends.
Daylight savings gives us that saturnalia-type party where you can do whatever you want in the hour that’s about to be overwritten. Is there something useful we could borrow from that? Some ritual that only makes sense while the world is mid-stride between one year and the next, some kind of magic that can leak in through the gap between them.
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#interesting ideas #(I can’t say I’ve ever heard the saturnalia thing myself) #(not even back when I was routinely awake at that time of day) #New Years #signal boosts #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
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