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| Now that's the size candy I'm talking about. |
Confession is good for the soul, it is said. And I confess I do love
the 'chocolate' holiday season from
Halloween to Christmas to
Valentine's Day to Easter. Cadbury has the queen of treats, the Creme
Egg, appearing only at Easter. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
I'm
not alone. It is just too much fun decorating baskets with that eternal
Easter grass (it never goes away, it's like glitter), and coloring the
eggs the old fashioned way with vinegar, etc. The images of bunnies and
chicks and ducklings are cute, even better than Santa who has a list and
checks it twice. No unconditional love from him! And this is an outside
sport, temps in the 70s, with light breezes, egg hunting, spring
clothes and bonnets, blooming Easter Lilies. Well, at least here in
SoCal.
Here's
an article about how to dress your kid for Easter. The tradition began
as symbolic of a new spiritual start. Now what is it?
http://www.womanaroundtown.com/sections/shopping-around/what-the-well-dressed-child-wears-to-an-easter-egg-hunt
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| I did see a puddy tat! |
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| Not one of Woodstock's, I'm guessing. |
The secularization of this holiday makes
it acceptable to everyone. Afterall, anthropologists say that all
peoples celebrated the return of spring after the difficulties of
winter.
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/march-equinox-traditions.html
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| Coaxing a smile from Eeyore. |
Familiar pop-culture figures dominate all holidays
now, and this is a word that used to mean 'holy-day.' Have we lost
anything by this transformation? Is the concept of the sacred now
forbidden? Teachers carefully appreciate the separation of church and
state in a public school. But
everywhere?
Easter
is the most secularized of the holidays in the USA, and ironically, the
most important for Christians acknowledging the death and resurrection
of Jesus. Question: how can we honor the rights of all and permit our
students to express their beliefs in public and private?
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| This is not a student of mine. He is a model. |
Here in SoCal this year it has become a fashion statement for middle school boys to wear rosaries as necklaces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosary
And
not only the latino kids. I've asked some of them what it means to
them; sometimes they say it means they are Mexican, sometimes they tell
me it is about their faith. Some say they just think it looks cool. So
far, this practice has not been considered a dress code violation. In
other places, it
is dress code.
Neb.
School's Ban on Rosary-Style Necklace Touches on Free Speech Issues,
Christian News
http://www.christianpost.com/news/neb-schools-ban-on-rosary-style-necklace-touches-on-free-speech-issues-57228/
So why so serious, MzTeachuh, and where are the silly Garfield jokes? OK, here we go.
What do you need if your Cadbury Creme Eggs suddenly disappear?
You need an eggsplanation.
How is the Easter Bunny like Kobe Bryant?
They're both famous for stuffing baskets.
Did you hear the one about the fifty-pound jelly bean?
It was pretty hard to swallow
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| The President and the Easter Egg |
Why do we paint Easter eggs?
Because it is too hard to wallpaper them.
What does the White House do when there are too many undiscovered Easter eggs on the South Lawn?
Call an eggsterminator.
I
am a huge fan of the Cadbury Creme Egg Bunny, and was charmed when I
found one I could buy as an Easter Bunny. A stuffed one that cackles
like a chicken, not a real one.
So, enjoy these animal actors. Why is there no Emmy or Oscar for animal actors?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oamnDsxFLyg&feature=related
