OCTOBER 31 Halloween For some Australians, too much American culture is never enough: until we infect our children with the disease of Halloween. that is. This is a story of light and dark, the lights in the so-called hallowed, hollowed pumpkins of that anachronistic Northern Hemisphere festival, Halloween – and its dark spawn. The corruption […]
FESTIVALS: October
Celebrations and Festivals: United Nations Day, October 24th
OCTOBER 24 United Nations Day It is over half a century since the founding of the United Nations in 1948. It is over three decades since October 24, 1980, was designated as the very first United Nations Day. Both years, 1948 and 1980, are luminous thresholds of global consciousness, resulting in firstly the birth, and […]
Celebrations and Festivals: Mental Health Week, October
SECOND WEEK IN OCTOBER Mental Health Week <This is the first week of October in the United States> Note that the opinions below are those of Alan Whitehead and not Earthschooling or Waldorf Books. We will be updating the chapter below and adding more recent information soon. A week set aside each year to recognize the […]
Celebrations and Festivals: World Animal Day: October 4th
OCTOBER 4 World Animal Day How proud we are in the West when we allude to our high level of moral advancement, one of the main areas being that of animal welfare. This progress is celebrated on October 4 each year with World Animal Day; shared with the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, […]