Last night’s Walpurgis Nacht celebration began with margaritas - which for some reason are one of my most potent of cocktails (should I ever offer one, decline - unless you are prepared to stay the night) - and followed with Kirschwasser as I felt I needed something more culturally appropriate. Needless to say after a few great zoom chats, Houseparties, and IM’s I was done for the day - that honestly needed to be a pre-covid Friday.
So work this morning was a slow start - mostly due to resentment though rather than any ill feelings.
But May Day - a day mostly ignored in the US, but full of pagan erotic fertility, communist gender display, and celebration of the working class. Today we had protestors not marching for better working conditions, pay, or healthcare - rather protests for the consumer class, the desire to buy things and make themselves more desirable, to go to the beach and be free from the consequences of their actions. To stay in denial, that the world has not changed. But the world is constantly changing whether we accept it or not and those who can adapt to the change better suited than those who resist. We’ve a long way to settle, to find where the change takes us. May we all be better off in the May Days to come.
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