Support4Change Blog

March 5, 2008

Categories: Commentary on Contemporary Life

By Arlene Harder, MFT

While you’re pondering the questions posed by the Tax-and-Spend category of Funding Protection Against Crime here is something interesting I learned today. Can’t guarantee it’s accurate, but it sounds accurate. If it’s wrong, let me know.

This year Easter is on March 23. Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify Passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar. Based on the above, Easter can actually be one day earlier (March 22) but that is pretty rare.

Here’s the interesting information: This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early (95 years old or above!). And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here are the facts:

1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you’re 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).

2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!

Bet you didn’t know that!

Publisher’s Special

Here is something else you may not have known. If you order my latest book, Ask Yourself Questions and Change Your Life, from the publisher, Personhood Press, before March 30th, you will not only pay $12.95 instead of the normal price of $14.95. You will receive it before you could buy it in bookstores. The book will be sent before the end of March, but will not be available in stores until May. The early reviews, preface, and introduction will give you a good idea of what you’ll find in the book.

Send me something you think I don’t know and that may be interesting to the readers of this blog and I’ll try to include it in a future blog.

Don’t Forget to Enter the Drawing for “ASK YOURSELF QUESTIONS AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE”

Each week I will give away my latest book, Ask Yourself Questions and Change Your Life. All you have to do is to complete one of the eleven Tax-and-Spend Game categories and fill out the form below.

NOTE #1: All fields are required.

NOTE #2: I will not share your name with anyone and I won’t put you on my newsletter list unless you subscribe yourself on the subscription form on Support4Change Newsletter or on the blog’s Welcome page. This is just information I need for this one drawing, but if you don’t give me your correct email address I won’t be able to contact you if you win.

NOTE #3: You can enter as often as you like, but each entry must be for a different Tax-and-Spend Game category

Hope you enjoy the Tax-and-Spend Game and learn something in the process. I’d love to hear what you think about it. Add a comment to this page or use the Contact Us form on Support4Change to send me your comments or ask a question.