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Reading Aura's blog yesterday and compelled by my own philosophical interior debate I decided that although pictures may be worth thousands of words I'd better write a couple of explanatory notes as well.
Friday morning (very, very early, like 6:30 am early) when I arrived in Comarnic I started taking these photos of the simple things around, of recurring elements that define Easter from my point of view every year. I posted these primarily to the Home for Easter album on Facebook. I knew there would be Easter cake, like every year, we'd go to the cemetery on Friday afternoon to remember our dead, like every year, there would be painted eggs, like every year, and so I kept adding these photos to the album as things happened.
The one thing you will notice in my pictures is the complete lack of pictures from the Saturday night "resurrection" service in church. That's not because I believed it was inappropriate to take pictures in church. It's simply because I wasn't there. My family would probably be best characterized as "spiritual but not religious". We keep to our traditions, because we believe in their importance, but we're usually not involved in religious activities as such.
So why bother with all the Easter stuff, then?
Because they are an important part of my cultural identity...
Because remembering the dead is not necessarily a religious act but an important spiritual component of life...
Because religious holidays, observed or not, are a good reason to get together with friends, strengthen or mend friendships, take a physical and mental break, look back introspectively...
I could elaborate endlessly on all the possible reasons but that's not the point.
FINAL NOTES:
To all those who deemed my words heresy, we also paint our eggs on Saturday afternoon instead of Thursday and the only times I go to church are weddings and baptisms (or tourist visits where I take thousands of pictures). Plus, half your religious rituals, which you observe so blindly and rigorously are pre-Christian or have pagan roots. So, shut it! Leave my beliefs alone and I might leave you in peace. Religious freedom to all!
If you hate Facebook or prefer browsing pictures differently and in better resolution the same Home for Easter album is also available on Picasa.
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