For me, I’d like to make a holiday celebrating Platonic Love, which is the love of not just the external, but the beauty, virtue, and good within a person. A love that supersedes the “vulgar” (Plato’s words, not mine) love of the surface. Who they are, not how they can satisfy your carnal cravings. (I’m feeling very Symposium today.)
Queen Henrietta Maria used to have parties and pageants that celebrated the intimate and platonic love of another person. I’d like to bring that back because I think these relationships can be some of the deepest and more meaningful relationships people can have.
It’s a more Gossmere take on the holiday, and it’s basically how (I think) The Mountaineers feel about each other. And maybe how they always have. I don’t have my memories of my Mountaineers, but I like to believe I still have some of the feelings, whether it’s true or not.
Affection, kinship, and the love of another human being in a deep and meaningful sense. A kindling. A bond.
I’d call it Saint Augernon’s Day.