My family is struggling because my immigrant parents operate on their homeland's agricultural calendar for everything important while my siblings and I are locked into American school and work schedules and we can never align on when to celebrate or mourn or make big decisions together.
More people experience this than they realize.
Multiple temporal frameworks within one family create endless friction around when life actually happens.
“Where Are You with Linear vs. cyclical time — cultural differences?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.