Denver Metro Area March 22, 2010
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Page 2 SPRING IS HERE! (continued) • Celtic tradition, which is based solely on daylight and the strength of the noon sun, says that spring begins in early February and continues until early May.
• May Day is not an American holiday, but it’s celebrated all over the world.
• Spring forward. In recent decades seasonal creep has been observed, which means that many signs of the season are happening earlier than expected in many regions. We’re talking a couple of days per decade.
• During ancient Roman times, spring was celebrated with the Feast of Floralia. This marked the flowering of the grains and the bounty of the animals as spring continued. The egg became an important symbol during this time period, thanks to the symbolism of egg bringing forth life and nourishing people.
• Akitu was a spring festival in ancient Mesopotamia. The name is from the Sumerian language for “barley”, originally marking two festivals celebrating the beginning of each of the two half-years of the Sumerian Calendar, marking the sowing of barley in autumn and the cutting of barley in spring.
• As the Italian Feast of Floralia evolved, people began creating eggs out of many materials, including chocolate, as gifts for their loved ones. Young matrons carried these eggs with them in baskets throughout the spring, trying to determine the possible gender of a future child.
• The Lunar New Year is sometimes called the Chinese Spring Festival. It is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays, particularly by people on mainland China and Taiwan. The festival traditionally beings on the first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th.
• In Germany, Walpurgisnacht, on April 30th and May 1st celebrates the release of winter’s hold on the land and the oncoming joy of summer.
• Hurricane season also begins in late spring, on May 15th in the northeastern Pacific and June 1st in the northern Atlantic. You don’t see hurricanes before these dates although they do sometimes occur. One of the earliest was Tropical Storm Ana in midApril 2003. • Severe weather generally occurs during the spring, when warmer air invades the lower latitudes just as cold air pushes out from the polar regions. Spring is also when flooding is also most common in and near mountainous areas during this time of year due to the melting of snow, aided by warm rains. • In America, “Tornado Alley” is most active by far during the spring. The Rocky Mountains prevent the surging hot and cold air fronts from moving westward and instead force them directly at each other. • Some of the worst blizzards have occurred in the spring. Does anyone remember the Great Blizzard of 1993, which brought hurricane conditions and then light snow to northern Florida on March 13th, and deposited up to five feet of snow in parts of the Appalachian Mountains. • The festival of Basant, in Pakistan, is held in the ancient eastern city of Lahore. Basant is marked by kite-flying, rooftop gatherings, garden parties and horse riding events.
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• More spring legends: On May 1st, it is believed that the earth spirits like sprites and fairies, emerge to bring the land safely to summer. People celebrate with great feasts of food and drink as the look forward to the coming of summer. • In Thailand, a three-day water festival on April 13-15 marks Songkran, the Buddhists’ celebration of the new year. Parades feature statues of Buddha that spray water on passersby. In small villages, young people throw water at each other for fun. People also release fish into rivers as an act of kindness. • The Jewish holiday of Passover is held during spring. Passover begins with two nights of a special dinner called Seders. During these two dinners, families read from a book called the Haggadah about the ancient Israelites’ exodus from Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. As they honor their ancestors, Jews reaffirm the importance of freedom. • On Easter, Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. People attend church and also enjoy different Easter customs. In
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• On March 28, 1814, the funeral of Guillotin, the inventor and namesake of the infamous execution device, takes place outside of Paris. Guillotin had built the guillotine to show the intellectual and social progress of the Revolution; by killing aristocrats and journeymen the same way, equality in death was ensured. • On March 23, 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published, in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for “oll correct,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct” at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans. • On March 27, 1912, in Washington, D.C., Helen Taft, wife of President William Taft, and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant two Yoshina cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River, near the Jefferson Memorial. The event was held in celebration of a gift by the Japanese government of 3,020 cherry trees to the United States. • On March 22, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Beer and Wine Revenue Act. This law levies a federal tax on all alcoholic beverages to raise revenue for the federal government and gives individual states the option to further regulate the sale and distribution of beer and wine. • On March 24, 1945, Billboard publishes its first pop-music chart for albums. The first No. 1 album was Nat King Cole’s “King Cole Trio.” Billboard had been publishing charts for single records since 1940. • On March 25, 1958, Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Carmen Basilio to regain the middleweight boxing championship. Born Walker Smith, Jr., “Sugar Ray” got his boxing name when he borrowed his friend Ray Robinson’s Amateur Athletics Union card to enter a boxing tournament at age 16. • On March 26, 1987, responding to a 911 call, police raid the Philadelphia home of Gary Heidnik and find an appalling crime scene. In the basement of his dilapidated house was a veritable torture chamber where three women were found chained to a sewer pipe. Heidnik was one the inspirations for the Buffalo Bill character in “Silence of the Lambs.” (c) 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.
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The teacher gave her fifth-grade class an assignment: get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories. Ashley said, “My father’s a farmer, and we have a lot of egg-laying hens. One time we were taking our eggs to market in a basket on the front seat of the car when we hit a big bump in the road and all the eggs went flying and broke and made a mess.” “What’s the moral of the story?” asked the teacher. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket!” “Very good,” said the teacher. Next little Sarah raised her hand and said, “Our family are farmers too. But we raise chickens for the meat market. We had a dozen eggs one time, but when they hatched we only got ten live chicks, and the moral to this story is, ‘Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.’” “That was a fine story, Sarah. Michael, do you have a story to share?” “Yes, my daddy told me this story about my Aunt Karen. Aunt Karen was a flight engineer in the Gulf War and her plane was hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory, and all she had was a bottle of whiskey, a machine gun, and a machete. She drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn’t break and then she landed right in the middle of a hundred enemy troops. She killed seventy of them with the machine gun until she ran out of bullets. Then she killed twenty more with the machete until the blade broke. Then she killed the last ten with her bare hands.” “Good heavens,” said the horrified teacher, “what kind of moral did your daddy tell you from that horrible story?” “Stay away from Aunt Karen when she’s been drinking!” A flock of sheep are romping in a field, happily going “baa baa” to each other and discussing life as usual when suddenly they hear a “moo mooooooo!” They look around and see only sheep. They carry on playing as before. “Moo moooo mmmoo!” One sheep can hear
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• Overall layout: Include places to sit and reflect, pray, meditate or relax, such as For most of history, gardens have had a a wooden swing. Picture what calms or strong relationship to health and healing. inspires you and include these elements Today, people use healing gardens to and items. A small pond, garden art, wind restore the body, spirit and mind. Gardens chimes, even interesting rocks might add create a sense of calm, balance, hope to your garden’s tranquility. Enclose it with and inspiration, which greatly improve the shrubs or fencing to create a secluded recovery process. A healing garden is an retreat and include paths for walking. opportunity to observe and be a part of the life cycle, giving a sense of purpose and • Aromatic plants: Sweet-smelling plants fulfillment. Gardens offer fresh air, exercise can enhance the relaxing atmosphere. and sunlight, important for reducing stress, Plant herbs such as basil, rosemary, sage, lemon thyme or lavender. Surround your anxiety and depression. garden with scented trees, such as pine and That’s why hospitals, nursing homes, eucalyptus, to create shade and shelter. hospices and cancer-support centers A new compact, reblooming lilac, called across the nation use healing gardens for Bloomerang, has clusters of purple-pink, their patients. In fact, doctors at the Jupiter sweet-scented flowers, making it excellent Medical Center in Florida discovered that for creating a fragrant hedge. patients who had a view of the healing garden from their rooms took less pain • Healing plants: Include medicinal plants to medication and had shorter hospital stays symbolize the health aspects of your garden. Lavender, sage, basil, thyme and St.-John’sthan those without such a view. wort have been prized for centuries for their Healing gardens are often used to help medicinal qualities. Fruits and vegetables women in their battles against breast cancer. can symbolize--and supply--nutrition. That’s important, since the National Cancer For example, the fruit of Sambucus, also Institute estimates that one in eight women called elderberry, is rich in antioxidants. An will be diagnosed with breast cancer at
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