World Home Threshold Day
A day for the doors, mats, shoes, keys, steps, and greetings that mark the passage between the world and home.
Equatorial Guinea Edition
World Home Threshold Day leads today's complete edition for Equatorial Guinea.
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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.
The mangoes arrive. Small, sweet, and abundant. Every tree in every yard drops mangoes. Every child climbs the tree. Every adult remembers climbing the tree. The mango juice runs down arms and chins. The flies are ecstatic. The ground beneath every mango tree is a minefield of fallen fruit. The season is brief. The obsession is total.
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.