Christmas greeting 2025

[miloshlavka]

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I wish all members of this board and their near and far all the best for the Christmas 2025, especially peace, health, happiness, contentedness, respect to the diversity and birth for new, perhaps finally a little better times.

To those of you who are concerned, I congratulate on the important days ahead.:
08. December - Bodhi Day ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi_Day )
15. December - Zamenhof's Day
17. - 25. December – Hanukkah-feast of the re-consecration of the Jerusalem Temple
18. December - International Day of migrants and refugees
18. December – Arabic Language Day (UN holiday)
22. December - Feast of the Prophet Zarathustra
24. December - Christmas Eve
25. December - God's Christmas hour
26. December - 2nd Christmas Day
28. December - International Day of cinema
31. December - day of Action Against Prisons
31. December - Feast of the nineteenth day of the month of Sharaf of the Bahá'í faith

Complete text of my poem in my greeting:

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Na krku svátky. Z nich otázka vzlíná:
Ježíšku, pověz, kde ses zapomněl?
Bedřiška, Súdán, Gaza, Ukrajina...
To snad čert nosí dárky. Bohužel…

Jen Adam Michna i navzdory době
jak by dál zpíval svý: „Chtíc, aby spal…“
a chtěl nám říct, ať najdem pokoj v sobě,
v něm nový síly, s nim vzdorujem dál.


Miloš Hlávka


And a machine translation (with some little corrections):

The holidays are upon us. The question arises:
Child Jesus, tell me, where got you lost?
Bedřiška, Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine...
Perhaps the devil brings gifts. Unfortunately...

Only Adam Michna, despite the times,
seems to continue singing his: "Wanting him to sleep..."
and wanted to tell us to find peace within ourselves,
in it new strength, with it we will continue to resist.


Explanatory notes:

Child Jesus (Czech: Ježíšek - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christkind ), not Santa Claus, brings Christmas gifts in the Central Europe, including the Czech Republic.

Bedřiška (=Frederica, Friederike - https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed%C5%99 ... _(Ostrava) ) is former mining colony (Bergbaukolonie) in Ostrava with the quality coexistence of the Romani ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people ) and not-Romani inhabitants ( https://mapy.com/cs/letecka?source=area ... 68052&z=17 ). Its existence is threatened by the intention of the city leadership to demolish it. And there exist people which want to defend this interesting place.

Adam Michna z Otradovic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Michna_z_Otradovic) was a baroque composer, organist and choirmaster in Jindřichův Hradec (Germ. Neuhaus) and "Chtíc, aby spal" (Wanting him to sleep) is his well-known Czech Christmas song ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urTSuTC ... rt_radio=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBcSZlo ... 9w&index=2 https://zpevnik.proscholy.cz/pisen/472/chtic-aby-spal )