World Weather Window Day
A day for looking outside before deciding what to wear, carry, postpone, protect, harvest, or celebrate.
Paraguay Edition
World Weather Window Day leads today's complete edition for Paraguay.
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A day for looking outside before deciding what to wear, carry, postpone, protect, harvest, or celebrate.
The night of bonfires. Paraguayans jump over flames for purification and courage, following a tradition that predates Christianity by centuries. Children roast chipa on sticks over the fire. The chipa that falls into the ashes is considered the best one. No one can explain why.
Every school and neighborhood sets up a fair with traditional games: pelota tata (fireball), tira de sogas (tug of war), and carrera de sachos (sack races). The food is chipa, empanadas, and mbejyu. The drinks are cleric and mate. The children run. The adults pretend they are not competitive about the sack race. They are.
A day for herbs, flowers, seedlings, balcony pots, and every bit of green people manage to keep alive.
A day for the quick meal, the regular customer, the busy cook, and the food people rely on between obligations.