by Anura Guruge
on January 21, 2023

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The Chinese New Year is one of the THREE (3) New Years I celebrate each year. The other two being the January 1 New Year &, of course, my Sinhalese New Year on April 14 (or sometimes 13).

The Chinese New Year falls on the 2nd Full Moon after the Winter Solstice. Hence, today — February 1.

It feels early, but it really isn’t. It can be even earlier.

This hopefully, but I highly doubt it, might be the FIRST ‘COVID-FREE’ (or maybe ‘nearly-free’) Chinese New Year in 3 years.

In 2020, COVID was just raising its head. We still managed to go to Boston Chinatown to celebrate Chinese New Year. We just talked about the possibility of going THIS YEAR. Wow.

But, Happy New Year.

You can never have enough New Years in a Year.