Cape Verde Edition
World Home Threshold Day leads today's complete edition for Cape Verde.
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Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for the doors, mats, shoes, keys, steps, and greetings that mark the passage between the world and home.
When the first real rain hits Santiago after months of dry season, people step outside and stand in it. The smell of wet dust on hot basalt is the smell of relief. Everything turns green overnight and for a few weeks the islands look like the paradise postcards promised. Then it stops and everyone goes back to waiting.
You marvel at the Ethiopian wolf, Hamadryas baboon, and Walia ibex that inhabit Ethiopia's unique highlands and rift valleys. You observe that Ethiopians typically keep goats, sheep, and donkeys for both companionship and labor purposes. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.