I'm so excited -- tomorrow is Power Day! It's the first global holiday. It commemorates the year the world stopped being dependent on oil, 2018. On Power Day, everyone spends the day unplugged from the grid. Any power that we need is generated by our own work. The holiday is not celebrated on the same day all over the world; it's planned for the spring season, warm mild weather, so it's on a different day depending on where you live. But everyone celebrates it.
Here in California, we usually have nice enough weather that we can have bicycle picnics. In the morning, we pack our lunches into special coolers that are powered by the bicycles we ride, and we hit the trails! You can see hundreds of people, thousands, out on the roads and trails on their bikes. No one drives on Power Day, and the world is very quiet without the hum of machinery.
Some folks celebrate by volunteering to power essential services for hospitals and other places that can't close. I'll be doing that for a few hours after lunch, but first, I'll take a long ride with my friends and we'll sprawl on a grassy hillside in the sun and enjoy the food we prepared. Then we'll all head over to the hospital and work the hand generators in shifts for the afternoon.
Power Day is a quiet, peaceful holiday, a time to remember that although the world was headed down a dangerous path, we managed to turn aside. It's a time to enjoy friends and the feeling of what you can do with your own personal power -- in every sense of the word.
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If you'd like to help plan and carry out a real Power Day for EVOKErs, please see
the thread in the forums under Agent Resources & Utilities.
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