Calendar

My grandmother had a true calendar, a meaningful, eventful one.

“You were born four moons after the heavy flooding which killed half of the town, twelve moons before the communists dynamited the church. It was just two moons after the grapes were ripened,” she used to say to me.

As a child, until I began school, I knew nothing of the fact that I was born on 1st October, 1963.

If I tell you my birthday with the current calendar, I tell you nothing about myself.

But, what if I use my grandmother’s calendar?