While doing some WordPress research, I visited the WordPress.com website. On the front page, a post was featured that basically said that naming a holiday after Christopher Columbus didn’t really make much sense. I agree with the author’s arguments.
I also don’t think it’s a good idea to just “complain”, so I’d like to propose that we give the holiday a new name: Iveta Day, in honor of my wife.
My wife’s birthday was yesterday (October 11). She did have a party, but instead of asking guests to bring her a present, she asked them to bring cash that she could donate to Operation Smile, a children’s charity treating facial deformities such as cleft lips and cleft palates all around the world. She got more than enough cash to help pay for one child to have the surgery (according to their web site, you can finance surgery for a child for as little as $240).
So let’s name it Iveta Day and celebrate it by giving to your favorite charity. If you don’t have cash, no problem; just find a local charity and volunteer your time. Instead of a holiday “honoring” the desire of greedy nobility to conquer new worlds, enslave their native people, and strip their lands of their wealth and natural resources, we would have the perfect opportunity to help those who truly need the help.
Plus we still get a day off.
And I’ll never have to buy another birthday present…?
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