There’s an actually two different concepts here which I’d both like to get some attention
“Patron saint” holidays (where part of the aesthetic is your relation to an individual you look up to and draw some strength from)
“Smaller/experimental/not-immediately-scaled-up holidays” (where the point is primarily “don’t necessarily scale up holidays”, but they can focus on things that are not heroes)
I think patron saints are a useful aesthetic handle for why the latter might be good, but wanted to flag the distinction, and the “small holidays in general that organically grow” was probably my primary motivator for the post.
There’s an actually two different concepts here which I’d both like to get some attention
“Patron saint” holidays (where part of the aesthetic is your relation to an individual you look up to and draw some strength from)
“Smaller/experimental/not-immediately-scaled-up holidays” (where the point is primarily “don’t necessarily scale up holidays”, but they can focus on things that are not heroes)
I think patron saints are a useful aesthetic handle for why the latter might be good, but wanted to flag the distinction, and the “small holidays in general that organically grow” was probably my primary motivator for the post.