National Nothing Day is an "un-event" proposed in 1972 by columnist Harold Pullman Coffin and observed annually on January 16 since 1973, when it was added to Chase's Calendar of Events. Its purpose is:
to provide Americans with one National day when they can just sit without celebrating, observing or honoring anything.It is sponsored by Coffin's National Nothing Foundation, registered in Capitola, California.
The Realist Society of Canada (RSC) has a religious holiday called THABS ( "There has always been something" Day, pronounced \ˈtabs\) dedicated to the Celebration of the realization that "if there was ever nothing, there would be nothing now". It is celebrated July 8th of each year.
Reminds me of the line from "Something Good" in the movie version of The Sound of Music":
ReplyDelete"Nothing comes from nothing,
Nothing ever could ..."
This is a splendid notion, if 'doing nothing' means not doing all the zany busy stuff Americans feel they ought to be doing lest they be seen as scroungers or loafers. Doing nothing has such a bad reputation; I would like to see it rehabilitated.
ReplyDeleteI am all up for celebrating nothing! Daniel thinks I do too much of it already, but is there ever really enough nothing?
ReplyDeleteI feel all Zen-ish for some reason even talking about this.