7 month 7 night

Tonight is the LUNAR date July 7 which is a special evening in Korean lore. I have to admit, being American (strange as it sounds for me to admit, I usually think of myself as Indian, even some of my best American friends think of me as Indian), I celebrate SOLAR dates....so I already celebrated 7/7 on July 7th....way out in the romantic countryside, beyond the corn fields near a babbling stream under a sky with a million stars and a totally sweet, and very hot, barely English-speaking guy. The legend of 7/7 is that there were once 2 young lovers that were so in love they ignored all of the work they were supposed to do, so God banished them to two opposite sides of the vast sky and allows them to meet only one night a year. On that night, black birds form a bridge from one side of the sky to the other and the two lovers are allowed to reunite. They say usually it rains on 7/7 because the two are so sad that they have to part again. There was no rain this time.... I first heard of this legend when I was leaving Korea to go back to live in NY in 2005. It so happened that because I was flying between time zones on that night, I was able to experience 7/7 twice! Now with my new scheme of celebrating SOLAR and then LUNAR dates....I not only can enjoy 7/7 twice, but it:s also about to be my birthday week again!!! Woo-hoo!!! So, wherever you are, whoever you`re with, enjoy something and send your celebrations through the ethers to me for LUNAR July 12 which falls on August 12!!