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Jepney Press Editorial / Dennis Sun
Jeepney Press / YOMU
by Dennis Sun
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The autumn season has arrived already! With your jackets to keep you warm, you delight on the beautiful fall foliage of red, brown, orange, and yellow colors. On social media, you see the usual posts and poses. How lucky are we to be enjoying the four seasons. In a sense, having four seasons do seem to make the year go fast. In a blink of an eye, they will all come and go. So fast...that we won’t even know they’re gone.
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Halloween, All Saints Day, All Souls Day and Thanksgiving have already passed. Did you even notice? Now, we are approaching Christmas, Bou Nen Kai (Year End Parties) and O Shou Gatsu (New Year).
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Notwithstanding that the pandemic is still here and deadlier than ever with the new variant, Omicron, life goes on, day in day out. We wake up, go to work, and then go home and dream about the holidays. Nevertheless, we have to celebrate holidays differently with more precautions: staying at home, wearing masks, washing our hands. Though holidays are about people gathering together, we are advised not to meet and gather to prevent the spread of coronavirus. So, how shall we celebrate the holidays? We weren’t prepared last year with this new dilemma. We were caught o guard with the pandemic. Now, we know better about virtual celebrations. We still can’t have another normal holiday this year. Not yet.
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It is truly good that we are living in the future of high technology. We still can create the spirit of the holidays through face-to-face video chat, a telephone call, an e-mail, or even a text message with emoji hugs and kisses. But please, forget the fax! In addition, for the traditional in us, we can still write and send Christmas cards or Nen Ga Jou (New Year’s postcards).
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The celebration goes on. But in a different way, of course. We can still raise our glasses on a virtual kanpai. Of course, it will all depend on the situation, place and what’s happening in our part of the world at the moment. It doesn’t have to be the same all the time.
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The meaning of the holidays remain constant. I’m de nite that we will continue to laugh and love. And live.
Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens
Photo by Dennis Sun
Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens
Photo by Dennis Sun
-Judith Wardell
DENNIS SUN
Jeepney Press Editor-In-Chief / Creative Director
