by Pa Rock
Proud Grandpa
Today marks the beginning of the Lunar New Year, a day celebrated by billions of people around the globe as the official start of yet another year, this one based on cycles of the moon rather than orbits around the sun. The Year of the Tiger ended yesterday, and today marks the beginning of the Year of the Rabbit. This year is especially meaningful to me because three of my six grandchildren - Boone, Olive, and Willow - were born during the Year of the Rabbit.
Boone will be twenty-four this year, so he is officially entering his third Year of the Rabbit today. Olive and Willow will both turn twelve this year, so it will mark their second cycle through the Year of the Rabbit.
Rabbits are regarded as gentle, clever, and quick, and all of those qualities are thought to be represented by those who have the good fortune to be born during the Year of the Rabbit. It is also thought that those qualities will extend to life in general during each year that is represented by the Rabbit.
I would add that all three of my Rabbit grandchildren, my bunnies, are musical, so perhaps that another quality of children born under this particular lunar sign.
Pa Rock is not musical. He is, alas, a Rat!
Happy Lunar New Year!
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