Snow Day!

Well the days are getting shorter, and colder.. much colder. Must be nice to be American this time of year! Well anyways here in Ontario it's around 5 degrees but with the wind and the psychology of summer being gone, it feels much colder. Especially to myself as I just got back from China last month.. (what? you didn't ask!).

I've just been thinking, that asides from birthday's, most major European holidays occur in the worst weather possible. Is it just a coincidence that Jesus' birthday is in December? Or thanksgiving? And what about Easter? Not the coldest holiday, but still (work with me people!). I'm just spit-balling here, but could it be some sort of method of control used by authorities to regulate our behavior.. to keep us from a deformed variation of cabin fever?

Remember, many ancient societies used festivals as a societal pressure release valve to release the citizen's daily pressures a hum-drum existence. The citizens would work and toil until (when some decided) the pressures of daily life may add up to be enough to incite a revolt, they released that pressure by way of an annual festival. It's not that far-fetched when you think about it that way...