What is Attic Day
- Attic Day is one of two very important “ritual” days for the community of The Kingdom of Leisure (tKoL). The other is Field Mowing Day
- While not clearly defined in exact terms — its meaning is somewhat elusive, intentionally ambiguous, and the creator seems to treat it more as tradition and feeling than a strictly defined holiday
- It’s a time to reflect. Attic Day bookends the Slide — meaning, it serves as a counterpoint or companion to Field Mowing Day. One looks forward, the other looks back. Attic Day is about looking back, review, inventories of self or community, and perhaps reckoning with what’s been stored away (figuratively or even literally)
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When is Attic Day
December 3 since 2005
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Rituals & Offerings
- On Attic Day, the site publishes “offerings” — reflections, creative pieces, even lists or thoughts about the past year. These are personal / communal retrospectives
- There’s an implication of cataloguing things: what went well, what didn’t; what’s lingering; what’s beauty, what’s art; what’s healed, what remains. The past year (or years) is reviewed in terms of highs and lows
- It’s not just nostalgia, but reckoning: acknowledging change, survival, scars, beauty, hope. There’s both the seeing-back and seeing-forward, as one learns from what’s behind
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Why it is important
- It’s “the DNA” of tKoL. As the writings put it: “Within the Kingdom of Leisure two days have, historically, proven to be the most important of each year: Field Mowing Day and Attic Day”
- These days create structure in otherwise creative, loose time — markers that allow the community and the author to pause, reflect, reorient. They help define the communal rhythm
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