It looks like MOST of the descriptions people are using for "richness" are pretty vague, which I find to be weird since we actually have readily available numbers.
Median US individual income is $26,695 . Unless you want to claim that half of Americans are "poor" or lower class, you should probably start your middle class no lower than that.
(ETA: For a full-time worker over the age of 25 it's $39k, so you could maybe push it up to that, but it disregards a lot of people who are stuck in part time jobs, or are kept working at just below ...
London also makes it easy to take up hobbies, and I imagine that would be more consistent in big cities.
I'm in NYC, and hobbies here are INSANELY expensive. Sure, there multiple makerspaces, but their memberships are all $400/mo+. Classes are expensive. Rent is so high that no one has room for hobby equipment. I would like to try brewing, but have nowhere to put a big jug. There are a lot of hobbies I would like to try but I have to space for it. Also, there's not a lot of free and open space for hobbyist groups.
Contrarily, I've also lived in the Midw...
I think the topics list is too long for a single holiday. For comparison:
Thanksgiving Giving Thanks Family National Heritage -Pilgrims and Indians
Christmas
Generosity/ Giving
Family
Christ
Community of All People/ Brotherhood
Also the more major themes you throw at Solstice, the less you have available to differentiate future possible holidays. Instead of eventually having 3-4 different holidays with different themes and feels, you'd get 3-4 holidays that all cover all the themes.
X-Risk is covered pretty well by Petrov Day, so you could probably cross tha...
Pretty sure the sugar is necessary for preserving. You could make it without sugar, but it would just be pulpy juice-water (the sugar is also a thickening agent), and you would have to eat/drink it pretty fast because it will go bad quickly (I would guess a couple days)
In a sterilized and sealed jar, jam made without sugar can last for years. Once you actually open the jar, you have about 7 days to eat it, and you better keep it refrigerated. You don't need the sugar for thickening - the pectin in the fruit thickens jam just fine.
However, if you don't add any sweetener, the result will be very sour.
Source: been making my own jam for years, had plenty of time to experiment.
Robert Frost's"Nothing Gold Can Stay" seems like the obvious choice.
1) It is so popular that the majority of people already at least sorta-know it, and a significant percentage could already recite it from memory.
2) It has a cadence that makes it easy to recite in unison.
3) It's simple.
4) It isn't specific to atheism/ doesn't exclude anybody.
5) It faces death rather than rages against it. Funerals probably aren't the best time to rage against death. That's sorta counterproductive to the acceptance that funerals are supposed to provide that helps...
After they finish doing the fillings, they file the new material down to fit your bite. You might recall them having you bite down on a piece of paper and then they'd sand away all the parts that were hitting. The more fillings that get done at once, the harder it is to get this done properly, I think. If certain parts of your filling or teeth are hitting before the other parts are when you bite down, or if they are otherwise not fitted well, it can cause pain throughout. (They are also more likely to fall out then)
Source: Personal experience with bad fillings.