{"id":3249,"date":"2015-03-17T23:10:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T03:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2015-03-17T23:53:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T03:53:33","slug":"st-who-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3249","title":{"rendered":"St. Who Day…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I feel I would be remiss if I didn’t talk about St. Patrick’s Day.\u00a0 I mean, it was March 17th all day today.\u00a0 People everywhere, dressed in green, wearing funny shamrock hats, and “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” pins, drinking green beer, and such.\u00a0 Entire cities pouring green dye into their rivers, in the celebration.\u00a0 It really is a pretty big festivity.\u00a0\u00a0 It seems to be teaming with magic, wonder and excitement.<\/p>\n

Now…… .. what all of that pomp and circumstance has to do with St. Patrick, I am not sure.\u00a0 Known as the “Apostle of Ireland,” he is the primary patron saint of Ireland.<\/p>\n

And so it happened…when he was about 16…\u00a0 about the time he should have been learning to drive a car… and not snakes….. , he was captured by Irish pirates from his home in Britain.\u00a0 From there he was taken as a slave to Ireland.\u00a0 Not for long though.\u00a0\u00a0 He was in Ireland six years before escaping and returning to his family.<\/p>\n

Irish Pirates.\u00a0 Now there is one for you.\u00a0 Were they little Leprechaun looking fellows in a boat… wearing knickers?\u00a0 Would they sail around endlessly, looking for the end of the rainbow and their little pots of gold?\u00a0 I can only wonder, but I am off topic.<\/p>\n

It just hit me that no other Ethnic Group in America has such a day…\u00a0 here in the U.S…. like the Irish do.\u00a0 Not the Polish, the French, or the Italians.\u00a0 Not Germans or Russians…. nadda.\u00a0\u00a0 Sure there are festivals, like Oktoberfest.\u00a0\u00a0 But nothing like this.<\/p>\n

I do not have a drop of Irish in me.\u00a0 Not as far back as I have researched, on both my Dad and my Mom’s lines.\u00a0 We are German, German, German.. …. and uhhhhnnnn….. German.\u00a0 I bet most people reading this don’t even know who the Patron Saint of Germany is.<\/p>\n

For those who don’t…. it is St. Boniface.\u00a0 He was a pretty big dude when it came to the establishment of the first organized Christianity in many parts of Germany and Europe.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But like all good Saints… he pretty much died a horrible death.\u00a0 He was on a missionary trip, and got ransacked by a bunch of traveling burglars.\u00a0\u00a0 They killed him dead.\u00a0 And 52 others who were with him.<\/p>\n

I think it might have been the Irish Pirates…. but I can’t say for sure.\u00a0 The “burglars” were looking for treasure.\u00a0 Again… I speculate it was those little fellas after those pots of Gold.<\/p>\n

But the whole St. Boniface Day thing never caught on in the U.S.\u00a0 It could be good, I am telling you.\u00a0 Not that I drink, but I am pretty sure the Germans have better beer…. and a LOT better food than the Irish.\u00a0 And we wouldn’t be dying everything green.<\/p>\n

So… I am starting a movement.\u00a0 Let us lay down our Shamrocks, and pick up our Oak Trees, one-eyed cats, and BMWs, Volkswagens,\u00a0 Porsches and Audis.<\/p>\n

Weinerschnitzel for everyone.\u00a0 Lasst die Spiele beginnen.\u00a0 Das ist gut.<\/p>\n

Yet.\u00a0 The bottom line is this.\u00a0 It doesn’t really matter how you decided to celebrate March 17th.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What matters.. ….. is that you made a decision to celebrate something.<\/p>\n

A lot of time, life just seems like the old “Day In. Day Out” to us.\u00a0 But, we should be able to find something, anything….. to celebrate… each and every day.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today I found cause in a lot of things… from someone to making me smile with a comment about how my name-spelling went…. to being blessed\u00a0 enough to have fresh chicken eggs in the morning.<\/p>\n

No matter what the cause… we should take the time to celebrate the magic and the wonder in life’s little gifts.\u00a0\u00a0 Our little pots of gold.\u00a0 Minus the mean green Irish Pirates.<\/p>\n

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~Epictetus<\/strong><\/em>
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