Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Snow and the Saint Valentine's Day - Sneg i Dan svetog Valentina

New York City is covered with snow, some folks go to work skiing. In Belgrade, it begun to snow only, nothing special, nothing much of a winter idyll. Newyorkers have probably done all the shopping for super-commercial, overdone, silly St Valentine's Day through the snow. In Belgrade, this is too in little bit relieved way, but for those who do not love this Love Day, we have an option Saint Triphune's day, who is a saint that protects wine and wine-consumers... People believe that with Saint Triphune there comes the spring, day is becoming longer and that affects to love and relations.So, even the orthodox version of this day is in some relation to love...

New York City je zavejan pod snegom. Ljudi idu na skijama na posao. U Beogradu sneg tek provejava, nista posebno, nista od zimske idile. Njujorcani su pod snegom odradili verovatno i sve kupovine za super komercijalni, izvikani, blesavi Dan Zaljubljenih, ili St. Valentine's Day. U Beogradu i to u blazoj varijanti, ali ovde ima za one koji ne vole taj komercijalno-pateticni momenat zvani Dan zaljubljenih i rezervna varijanta zvana Dan Svetog Trifuna, poznatog zastitnika vina i vinopija... u narodu se veruje da sa Svetim Trifunom dolazi i prolece, da se produzava dan i da to utice i na ljubav. Znaci, i pravoslavna varijanta Valentina se uhvatila ljubavi...

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