Open Thread

What does Easter mean to you, if anything?

14 Comments

Second Nature on April 11, 2009 at 5:06 pm

spring. new baseball season. the indians in first place. marshmallow peeps (I hate them but they are fun to play with.

Andrew Longman on April 12, 2009 at 3:56 am

Ever put a peep in the microwave. Nothing renewing about it 🙂
Andrew Longman on April 12, 2009 at 3:56 am

Ever put a peep in the microwave. Nothing renewing about it 🙂

LM on April 11, 2009 at 5:12 pm

I’ve heard it described as a holiday of Renewal, but I think that for many of us who suffer through big family dinners, it is more a holiday of restraint. E.g. I plan to restrain myself by not pushing my sister-in-law’s face into a bowl of mashed potatoes.

donnah on April 11, 2009 at 5:28 pm

I grew up in a Presbyterian church-going family, so the Easter holiday was always a time of religious ceremony mixed with bunnies, plastic eggs, and candy. I am no longer a church-goer and couldn’t care less about the religious aspects of the season. For me, it’s all about spring coming.

and the candy.

judiper on April 11, 2009 at 7:06 pm

same here with the exception of being Catholic.

Paddy on April 11, 2009 at 5:45 pm

Kishka!

Second Nature on April 11, 2009 at 6:15 pm

Who stole the kishka?

budr on April 11, 2009 at 7:03 pm

Another cultural and religious overlay plastered on the vernal equinox and the coming of spring to the northern hemisphere. It seems that every culture and every religion feels the need to subsume this and other turnings of the seasons to their own mythological framework. I appreciate the fundamental, universal themes of renewal and rebirth that naturally come with the season, but I am unmoved by the oftentimes strained efforts to make one or another of the many ancient stories fit currently prevailing mythologies.