Things Hosts Do

Are Better When Shared

Are Mostly Timing

Become More Valuable When Shared

Become Real Only When Shared

Become Stronger When Shared

Depend On Timing

Depend On Timing More Than Quality

Leave Residue

Make A Day Feel Shorter

Make Presence Visible

Need An Audience

Need Witnesses

Reward Presence

Reward Timing

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childbirth

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trivia

is a confrontation involving the giving of attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

is a power that we are losing today: it is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation and it stands in contrast to being entertained which is a passive state marked by amusement or spectacle.

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

is best not done prematurely --- It is not a fish until it is safely on the bank.

It is not a fish until it is safely on the bank.

is unwise before a thing has ended --- Do not praise the day before the nightfall.

Do not praise the day before the nightfall.

is not to be endulged in overly hastily --- don't whistle until you're out of the woods.

Don't whistle until you're out of the woods.

is self-restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

Celebration ... is self-restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this. Martin Heidegger.

celebration, n.All

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