Chavez's birthday is coming up, by the way, March 31st, and is celebrated and observed in a handful of states. It is one more good and fine day worthy of keeping alive in the hearts of everyday working people.
But, as you know, we have no need of more superficial treatments of giants who have walked once in our land, no more special, red-lettered holidays to be fluttered and fizzled about, no more days to be frittered away selling us more merch, or more kitsch, without any of us ever knowing why it's This-or-That Day.
We can only remind ourselves of profound, full-hearted days worthy of safekeeping, and not leave it to calendar makers and teevees to tell us which days are important, to dictate which ones have value over all the rest. Leave us to decide on our own which days are best.
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