Friday, April 01, 2005
April 1, 2005. April, the cruelest month according to T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and I must agree. Today is the ten year anniversary of Joy’s accident.
Though I am on break and could very well spend the day with Joy, I chose not to. But I can’t help thinking about her. There’s something so twisted and wrong about her accident being on this day and and yet so appropriate.
In ancient times, the beginning of the new year was celebrated around the Vernal Equinox, usually March 20th or 21st. Unlike our present celebrations of the new year, their festivities would go on for an entire week, ending April first. When the Gregorian Calendar replaced the Julian Calendar in 1582 under the edict of Pope Gregory XII, January first became the beginning of the new New Year. However, many people refused to celebrate this change. They were ridiculed as traditionalists and called fools.*
I wonder at this new life she is living.
It is as if that April first were her new year. I try to see the positive, but it always comes up short. Things like, I have learned great patience from working with her, always seem petty when set next to her lost life and the life she wallows in now.
This has to be the worst April Fool's Day joke ever.
* Pearson Education,"April Fool's Day: Origin and History." Infoplease.© 2000–2005 publishing as Infoplease. 04 Apr. 2005 (http://www.infoplease.com/spot/aprilfools1.html)
Though I am on break and could very well spend the day with Joy, I chose not to. But I can’t help thinking about her. There’s something so twisted and wrong about her accident being on this day and and yet so appropriate.
In ancient times, the beginning of the new year was celebrated around the Vernal Equinox, usually March 20th or 21st. Unlike our present celebrations of the new year, their festivities would go on for an entire week, ending April first. When the Gregorian Calendar replaced the Julian Calendar in 1582 under the edict of Pope Gregory XII, January first became the beginning of the new New Year. However, many people refused to celebrate this change. They were ridiculed as traditionalists and called fools.*
I wonder at this new life she is living.
It is as if that April first were her new year. I try to see the positive, but it always comes up short. Things like, I have learned great patience from working with her, always seem petty when set next to her lost life and the life she wallows in now.
This has to be the worst April Fool's Day joke ever.
* Pearson Education,"April Fool's Day: Origin and History." Infoplease.© 2000–2005 publishing as Infoplease. 04 Apr. 2005 (http://www.infoplease.com/spot/aprilfools1.html)
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