OKAY LOVED ONES. MAMA ADMITS SHE IS NOTORIOUSLY TERRIBLE AT REMEMBERING BIRTHDAYS (SHE HAS EVEN BEEN KNOWN TO FORGET WHICH DAY IS FRITH'S BIRTHDAY AT TIMES, BUT FOR THIS SHE SHOULD BE FORGIVEN, AS FRITH TOOK AN EXTRA TEN DAYS TO COME OUT WHICH MADE THE WHOLE DATE-THING VERY CONFUSING FOR HER POOR MAMA)
ANYWAY. MAMA HAS CREATED A PERPETUAL DUTCH BIRTHDAY CALENDAR, AND IT NOW HANGS IN FRONT OF THE TOILET IN THE BATHROOM. THIS IS WHERE ONE TRADITIONALLY HANGS SUCH THINGS IN DUTCH HOMES, BELIEVE IT OR NOT.
AND THIS IS WHERE YOU PEOPLE COME IN. SEND ME YOUR BIRTHDAY, WHETHER YOU THINK I KNOW IT OR NOT (MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS raindogboo@hotmail.com). I WILL ENTER IT IN THE BIRTHDAY CALENDAR AND FROM THAT POINT ON I WILL MAKE IT A PERSONAL POINT OF HONOUR TO HOUND YOU, IN SOME FASHION, ON YOUR BIRTHDAY. YEAR AFTER YEAR.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOUR OWN BIRTHDAY CALENDAR, YOU ARE WELCOME TO PRINT OUT MINE BY CLICKING HERE - JUST CUT EACH PAGE INTO THREE LONG STRIPS AND ATTACH THEM ALL TOGETHER AT THE TOP EDGE HOWEVER YOU LIKE. THEN, FILL IN THE BIRTHDAYS OF EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND LOVE ON THE APPROPRIATE DAYS. REMEMBER, IT MUST HANG IN FRONT OF THE TOILET - TYPICALLY THE DOWNSTAIRS TOILET, IF YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE.
IF I DON'T HEAR FROM YOU SOON, I WILL BE SENDING OUT A BIG OLD EMAIL TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU. THIS IS IMPORTANT TO ME OKAY?
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DERIVING FROM THE ANCIENT WORD "PRIYAS" MEANING "ONE'S OWN", FRITH'S ORIGINAL MEANING WAS PROBABLY SOMETHING LIKE "THE PEACE ENJOYED WHILE AMONG ONE'S OWN FAMILY OR TRIBE" .. FRITH IS OFTEN TRANSLATED SIMPLY AS "PEACE".
THE FULL MEANING OF FRITH ENCOMPASSES PEACE BUT EXTENDS WELL BEYOND IT, TO COVER A LARGE PORTION OF THE MOST MEANINGFUL AND ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN SOCIAL LIFE. THE TERM FRITH CAPTURED A HUGE PROPORTION OF EVERYTHING GOOD THAT COULD EXIST IN LIFE, AND ALL OF THESE GREW OUT OF THE ROOTS OF THE KINDRED ITSELF -- THE KINDRED RELATIONSHIP.
ANCIENT VIKINGS WOULD INVOKE AN AGREEMENT AMONG ALL PRESENT THAT ARGUMENTS AND DISAGREEMENTS ARE LEFT 'OUTSIDE' THE DOOR DURING CELEBRATION : A 'PROMISE' TO KEEP FRITH. ANYBODY WHO DID NOT RESPECT THIS WOULD HAVE LOST FACE AND ALSO HONOUR. IN THE OLDEN DAYS ONE WOULD HAVE TO LEAVE ALL WEAPONS OUTSIDE, TO ENSURE THAT DISCUSSIONS DIDN'T END IN BLOODSHED. SO FRITH IS AN AGREEMENT AMONG SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO RESPECT EACH OTHER TO KEEP 'PEACE'.
FRITH DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE SHOULD ALL GET ALONG; IT MEANS THAT WE SHOULD ALL STAND, AND ACT, FOR SOMETHING REAL AND MEANINGFUL, AND THAT THOSE OF US WHO FIND OURSELVES STANDING FOR ENOUGH OF THE SAME IMPORTANT THINGS SHOULD STAND TOGETHER, IN LIFELONG COMMITMENTS WITHOUT CONSTANTLY WEIGHING THE BENEFITS AGAINST THE COSTS.
IN ESSENCE, FRITH IS NOT AN ABSENCE, BUT A PRESENCE. IT IS NOT THE ABSENCE OF STRIFE; RATHER IT FILLS THE SPACES BETWEEN PEOPLE WITH SOMETHING THAT IS STRONGER AND MORE IMPORTANT, MORE MEANINGFUL, THAN STRIFE.
FRITH IS AN ACTIVE, DELIBERATE, MINDFUL PEACE.
THE FULL MEANING OF FRITH ENCOMPASSES PEACE BUT EXTENDS WELL BEYOND IT, TO COVER A LARGE PORTION OF THE MOST MEANINGFUL AND ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN SOCIAL LIFE. THE TERM FRITH CAPTURED A HUGE PROPORTION OF EVERYTHING GOOD THAT COULD EXIST IN LIFE, AND ALL OF THESE GREW OUT OF THE ROOTS OF THE KINDRED ITSELF -- THE KINDRED RELATIONSHIP.
ANCIENT VIKINGS WOULD INVOKE AN AGREEMENT AMONG ALL PRESENT THAT ARGUMENTS AND DISAGREEMENTS ARE LEFT 'OUTSIDE' THE DOOR DURING CELEBRATION : A 'PROMISE' TO KEEP FRITH. ANYBODY WHO DID NOT RESPECT THIS WOULD HAVE LOST FACE AND ALSO HONOUR. IN THE OLDEN DAYS ONE WOULD HAVE TO LEAVE ALL WEAPONS OUTSIDE, TO ENSURE THAT DISCUSSIONS DIDN'T END IN BLOODSHED. SO FRITH IS AN AGREEMENT AMONG SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO RESPECT EACH OTHER TO KEEP 'PEACE'.
FRITH DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE SHOULD ALL GET ALONG; IT MEANS THAT WE SHOULD ALL STAND, AND ACT, FOR SOMETHING REAL AND MEANINGFUL, AND THAT THOSE OF US WHO FIND OURSELVES STANDING FOR ENOUGH OF THE SAME IMPORTANT THINGS SHOULD STAND TOGETHER, IN LIFELONG COMMITMENTS WITHOUT CONSTANTLY WEIGHING THE BENEFITS AGAINST THE COSTS.
IN ESSENCE, FRITH IS NOT AN ABSENCE, BUT A PRESENCE. IT IS NOT THE ABSENCE OF STRIFE; RATHER IT FILLS THE SPACES BETWEEN PEOPLE WITH SOMETHING THAT IS STRONGER AND MORE IMPORTANT, MORE MEANINGFUL, THAN STRIFE.
FRITH IS AN ACTIVE, DELIBERATE, MINDFUL PEACE.
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