These tiny celebrations of living we call art, each one contending with the inevitability of cessation, it is these beautiful, sincere resistances that I love and appreciate.
The extra experience offered by a well-run festival – be it a tiny oyster celebration in Cornwall or a full-on music festival on the Isle of Wight – means that local authorities are finally beginning to appreciate the huge economic and social value of events which might once have seen residents recoiling in horror.
In an effort to secure good relations with Indonesia, the president-elect of East Timor, José Alexandre Gusmão, visited President Megawati Sukarnoputri to invite her to the tiny nation's independence celebration on May 20.
Although Chávistas in central Caracas launched fireworks and honked their car horns in celebration, the tiny margin shocked many aides, who had been expecting the double-digit victory predicted by most polls up until a week ago.
Inside the tiny home, scenes of celebration collided with despair.
But between his affinity for the mud and his exceptionally quick recovery from the May 7 Derby, Exaggerator set off a celebration in tiny Maurice, La., where the Desormeauxs were raised.
A trip to Romania, "that bruised and beautiful country", as she puts it in an acknowledgement, "with its tiny shrines, name-day celebrations and 'weddings of the dead'", was also important in the novels' creation.
A fruit vendor in Nanjing, China has started selling peaches wearing tiny pairs of knickers in celebration of the upcoming Qixi festival, the Chinese version of Valentine's Day.
What are these presumed soldiers of Moloch — the demon of money and power summoned in the second part of "Howl" to devour the soul rebels of the epic first section, unless, somehow, they can escape to fight another day — supposed to make of Ginsberg's celebration of a tiny band of comrades determined to free America from itself?
The young scientist thrives on head pats, words of encouragement, and celebration of every tiny achievement.
