For example, some Facebook users take summer vacation breaks, some take a break for a religious observance such as Lent,, and some people take breaks when special family events such as a wedding or a birthday are coming up and they need to prepare, travel, be available for it, etc., without wanting to be distracted.
Some went high-concept, like Eli Burnstein (@bee_sting), who suggested a set of new observances such as Tomorrow Eve, Dependence Day, and Unholiday.
Important days in the Jain calendar are called parvan, and on these days religious observances, such as structured periods of fasting and festivals, take place.
In many countries it is marked by a variety of popular observances, such as the lighting of Advent candles, one on each of the four Sundays before Christmas.
Modern priests tend to discourage folk observances such as the fiestas; the Indians, by and large, produce them without help of a priest.
Besides religious observances, such as Eid al-Fitr (religious festive day at the end of Ramadan) and Eid al-Adha (a 3 day major Islamic holiday later in the year), there are also other days, for example, the Bengali New Year day, which are national (or government) holidays.
For the rest of 1909, the battleship conducted training and participated in ceremonial observances, such as the Hudson-Fulton Celebration.
The guidelines start at the base with Yamas (restraints such as non-violence and truthfulness) and Niyamas (behaviors and observances such as contentment and cleanliness).
Kaplan never abandoned traditional language, but he attempted to infuse new meaning and significance into such theological terms as God, salvation and creation, and associate new values with traditional Jewish observances such as the Sabbath and the holiday cycle.
In his homilies, John criticized those "Judaizing Christians", who were participating in Jewish festivals and taking part in other Jewish observances, such as the shabbat, submitted to circumcision and made pilgrimage to Jewish holy places.
Bonus in the basket of moss and twine: a journal filled with paper made by a Pervuvian woman collective on which I can write all my thoughts and dreams and poems and sketches of whimsical observances, such as funny people in diners.
