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January 20, 2009
'Blue Monday' - hallelulah!
I'm very grateful to Tess for telling me about 'Blue Monday', as it's a festival I hadn't previously come across.
How wonderful that we have a day which gives us permission to be overwhelmed with remorse at the state of ourselves and the world. It's the beginning of kindness really, which arises most profoundly from our sorrow. How can we not be kind to each other amid such shared and almost lunatic dysfunction?
The trouble with most festivals is that they are determinedly celebrating something external to ourselves - which in the long term, tends to make people less whole, and more stupid. But here, wonder of wonders, is one which plugs into the deep creative darkness. A bit like the beginning of time.
I remember one woman who would only come to church once a year, on Good Friday. For her, it was the only day of the year when the church took sorrow seriously enough...and didn't feel obliged to celebrate something...
Posted by Mr Bojangles at January 20, 2009 09:25 AM