For this I hate New Years. I want every morning to be a new year for me. I want to evaluate my life every day and renew my life every day. No days budgeted for rest. I choose when to take a break, when I feel drunk with the intensity of life and I want to dive into my animalistic self to discover new energy.
On January 1st, 1916, Italian Marxist politician and activist Antonio Gramsci published in his newspaper Avanti! a rant about celebrating the New Year and its capitalistic underpinnings and why we should honor everyday instead. Allison Grimaldi Donahue translates the entire essay over at Queen Mob’s Teahouse.
