Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, or Harvest Moon Festival in some circles.
Along with it being a special day of celebration, it also happens to be the day that our family celebrates my mother’s birthday. Since she was born on such an auspicious day, her birthday has always been celebrated according to the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar. The day started out cloudy, which is not conducive to the main activity of the evening, which is moon gazing. Luckily, by the time we finished up eating all the foods that relates to this occasion (eddoes, fresh peanuts, and moon cakes for the festival and noodles for the birthday), the skies had cleared, revealing a perfectly round moon shining over the waters of Lake Ontario.
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