(blog) quality calendar

Blog of Zoe at Galien Valley
Galien River valley, southwest Michigan, North America

Intro to Quality Calendar:
A calendar of a local culture:
my days, weeks, etc.
Galien Valley Cultural Calendar

A different way to think of days, weeks, months, holidays, seasons, culture, etc. Celebrate good qualities, every day.
Read inspirational quotes, etc.
Learn about native Michigan wildlife, etc.
Support communities, people, and nature.
See quotes, wildlife, and more.

See below the following 30 days to read more about the purpose of this calendar.

Click on a day, to see the calendar page of that day.

Week 1

Werverdae, Wookooch 1
December 21

Moeyoedae, Wookooch 2
December 22

Singlingdae, Wookooch 3
December 23

Dipidae, Wookooch 4
December 24

Fafadae, Wookooch 5
December 25

Jaegaedae, Wookooch 6
December 26

Week 2

Werverdae, Wookooch 7
December 27

Moeyoedae, Wookooch 8
December 28

Singlingdae, Wookooch 9
December 29

Dipidae, Wookooch 10
December 30

Fafadae, Wookooch 11
December 31

Jaegaedae, Wookooch 12
January 1

Week 3

Werverdae, Wookooch 13
January 2

Moeyoedae, Wookooch 14
January 3

Singlingdae, Wookooch 15
January 4

Dipidae, Wookooch 16
January 5

Fafadae, Wookooch 17
January 6

Jaegaedae, Wookooch 18
January 7

Week 4

Werverdae, Wookooch 19
January 8

Moeyoedae, Wookooch 20
January 9

Singlingdae, Wookooch 21
January 10

Dipidae, Wookooch 22
January 11

Fafadae, Wookooch 23
January 12

Jaegaedae, Wookooch 24
January 13

Week 5

Werverdae, Wookooch 25
January 14

Moeyoedae, Wookooch 26
January 15

Singlingdae, Wookooch 27
January 16

Dipidae, Wookooch 28
January 17

Fafadae, Wookooch 29
January 18

Jaegaedae, Wookooch 30
January 19

Famous Quotes, with Photos
Here are a few quotes from within the Quality Calendar. Plus, photos of Michigan nature.
Read the Quotes.

Purpose of Calendar:
It's important for there to be both a global calendar and many unique local calendars. Each locality should follow the global calendar and a unique local calendar. Worldwide, there needs to be many local calendars - one local calender per each of the many localities in the world. A locality could be any size from a 50-mile region, 50-mile watershed, to a county, to a 5-mile community. There should not be only a global calendar. It's important for there to be a diversity of how we think of time, take time to live and learn and work and play, the seasons, and seasonal holidays. We do not want a monoculture of everyone thinking the same stifling way. We need a diversity of thought and culture. We want to make sure we think of the local plants and animals within each locality, and what their yearly phenology and routines are. Different plants and animals live in different parts of the world and local calendars should relate to local plants and animals. The globalized Gregorian civil calendar has 12 months per year, 28 to 31 days per month, and 7 days per week. The Galien Valley Calendar is at least slightly different with 30 days every month (except the last month has 35 days), 6 days per week, and 5 weeks every month (except last month has 6 weeks). In the Galien Valley Calendar, the first day of every month starts on the same weekday: Werverdae. The Galien Valley Calendar has different month names and weekday names as well as different seasonal holidays, than the globalized Gregorian civil calendar.

The Galien Valley Calendar promotes universal morals / globalized hearts, as well as some localized unique cultural flair of local plants and animals, plus unique days, weeks, months, and holidays of the year.

The Galien Valley Calendar has us break away from thinking about days as being a Monday or Friday, or inbetween, or a weekend. Instead the Galien Valley Calendar encourages that everyday is special and cherished, not just Fridays. Everyday is a day to celebrate a good quality in life. Everyday is a day to celebrate and have fun by playing hard, relaxing, and working hard at doing good, doing science and art, and sustaining and enriching communities, people, and nature.

Globally the Same:
The Globalized Heart. We do want everyone in the world to have the same good heart: to love family, friends, and neighbors, near and far; and, to love communities, people, and nature, near and far; and to think globally by acting to sustain and enrich local nature and local community economics. We want universal moral thought and action. We want globalized love and peace, as well as social and economic equality and justice. We want globalized freedom to be free to do sustainable, loving, moral, healthy, and responsible things. We want globalized tolerance of diversity of different localities and different cultures. The Galien Valley Calendar promotes universal morals / globalized hearts, as well as some localized unique cultural flair of local plants and animals, plus unique days, weeks, months, and holidays of the year. The Galien Valley Calendar promotes universal morals / globalized hearts such as by displaying inspirational and moral quotes by famous people, including Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Henry David Thoreau, and Leo Tolstoy.

Globally Different:
Diverse and Localized Cultures, and Localized Community Economics. We want a diversity of physical thought and action. Our hearts and morals should be universal, not our physical thoughts and actions. People should physically think and act to best suit their local needs, local community, local economics, local cultures, local food, and local nature and habitats. We want local communties to exist for long as possible, which requires that we treat our surrounding and distant communities well too. Helping our local community includes to not selfishly take things from and harm other communities. Community cultures and community economics commonly establish social justice, economic justice, health justice, and environmental justice. (For example, read "The Hadza," by Frank Marlowe. The Hadza community is a real community in Africa, today. The Hadza community runs its own local culture and community economy. The Hadza have social justice (both men and women are equally empowered and respected); there are no rich people; there is no poverty (everyone has enough shelter, water, food, clothes, etc.); there is no slavery; there is a chief facilitator and democracy; there is no king or dictator; the Hadza are generally healthy; some Hadza live to be over 80 years old; and the Hadza live sustainable lives - they do not cause unsustainable environmental destruction and they do not use fossil fuels.)

Think Global, Act Local:
Global Love, Local Culture & Economy
A person, who can walk and talk and earn a living for oneself, can better interact with the world than a helpless person, who has someone else talking for him and moving him around and constantly having to tend to him. Likewise, a community, which runs a locally-self-sufficient community economy for itself, can better interact with the world. We want a global exchange of love, peace, joy, and sustainable ideas, and not a global exchange of money, products, and resources. People can travel the world to spread love and peace, and to learn sustainable ideas. Tourists can buy a few souvenirs, which were made locally at the places they visit. Distant communities and nations can help each other out, but only temporarily. 50 years of foreign aid going to Africa and trying to get Africa into the global market is global coercion and helpless dependency, not global cooperation. Global cooperation is based on love, and not on money, products, and resources. Keep money, products, and resources local.

We don't want everyone in the world being physically the same - same culture, same economy - eating the same McDonalds hamburger or wearing the same Gap jeans and buying globalized gasoline. Globalized economics is boring and mind-numbing, it really limits our minds into a tiny box, plus it causes a plethora of economic injustice, social injustice, environmental injustice, and health injustice. (For example, watch "True Cost," a 2015 documentary film about the globalized clothing industry harming nature and harming people's economy and health.) We don't want a globalized culture, a globalized economy, and globalized disasters of fast food, clothing fads, fossil fuels, nor of just one calendar. A globalized culture and market economy creates vast amounts of inequality and injustice, socially, community-wise, economically, health-wise, educationally, and environmentally. To promote cultural diveristy, for the sake of social justice, equality, health, economics, communties, education, and the environment, the Galien Valley Calendar promotes universal morals / globalized hearts, as well as some localized unique cultural flair of local plants and animals, plus unique days, weeks, months, and holidays of the year.

Think of good things, and overcome evil with good.

Up with goodness, awareness, creativity, altruism, health, diversity, morality, sustainability, enrichment, love, peace, joy, excitement, social justice, economic fairness, responsibility, etc.
Down with the horrible, ignorance, destruction, greed, illness, monotony, immorality, destruction, complacency, uncaring, violence, depression, boredom, social injustice, economic unfairness, recklessness, etc.

It's most important to be moral and spiritual and to locally handmake your own vital stuff: housing, food, clothes, tools, soap, gather local water, etc. The calendar is not as practical, but since I had it already, I used it. The calendar does inspire and support the important movement to get more culturally diverse and econmically local again.

Before I was very practical, 10+ years ago, I made this calendar: 6-day-weeks, 30-day-months, the new names of months, weekdays, holidays, etc., I even had a draft list of native plants and animals for each week. More recently, I reused my 10+ years ago calendar, because I wasn't going to bother spend the time to make a new one, and I added qualities and quotes to each day, and selected a native plant or animal for each day.

Months of the Year:
of the Galien Valley Cultural Calendar

Winter
Wookooch (January-ish)
Churoo (February-ish)
Shoover (March-ish)

Spring
Menen (April-ish)
Yeeyoet (May-ish)
Hoehee (June-ish)

Summer
Siloi (July-ish)
Doipoil (August-ish)
Ingbing (September-ish)

Fall
Faga (October-ish)
Zhazaw (November-ish)
Jaethaz (December-ish)

Below, are links to the first 2 weeks of the year.
Click on a day, to see the calendar page of that day.