Celery Green Day, an excerpt from FISH OUT OF WATER

This excerpt is from Chapter 18 in my book FISH OUT OF WATER: A Search for the Meaning of Life.

“Celery Green Day” 

Those I hung out with in the Schroeder Lounge at Yale became such good friends that I tended to accept their views, and through them began to see another way of looking at these things. One of them had even brilliantly invented a holiday that summed up their notions. He called it Celery Green Day.

The idea behind this was that every spring as you looked out over the landscape of ...