In my last post, I wrote about May 1st as International Workers Day. May Day is also an unofficial dividing line between winter and summer (with apologies to those in North Dakota who experienced snow over the weekend.)
The Celtics celebrated Beltaine, a springtime festival of optimism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltane. The traditional spring festival of Walpurgis Night http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgis_Night is associated with dancing and bonfires in northern and central Europe.
Here in southwestern Connecticut, May day was beautiful, appropriate for the occasion: warm sunlight, budding trees, singing birds. That's a holiday that I can get behind.
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