It’s The NODWISH™ Season
Yes, it’s the time of year when the Sun dies and must be re-born through an elaborate ceremony that involves some form or type of sacrifice, such as finding gifts for people you can’t stand and smiling brightly as you receive yet another gift based on an urban legend that you actually like truly stomach-wrenching color combinations. Some people get a little carried away .
Of course there was a time when the Solstice sacrifices were more visceral and the evergreen was covered in things that pleased only ravens and such, but we have put all that behind us by opting for the possibility of electrocuting one another and causing chaos on the power grid.
What a brilliant idea: moving a large supply of pre-kindling soaked with highly flammable resins into your house, loading it down with petrochemical-based ornaments, lacing it with heat-producing electrical devices, and surrounding the base with cardboard boxes and tissue paper. You just can’t have a traditional celebration without a proto-bonfire in your living room.
I do think that followers of Mithras might want to curtail their typical birthday service in light of Mad-Cow Disease, but global warming will certainly make the services in the oak wood in traditional druidic robes more comfortable.
When you put up your stocking on the mantel and put out the turnips for Gouger, Rooter, Tusker, and Snouter as well as the pork pie and sherry for the Hogfather, you can rest assured the Sun will come up, because it just slipped around back to return the lager it rented.
Enjoy! You have nothing to fear, except that sniveling little creep with the camera/phone at the office party or the eggnog that was put out rather early causing you to suspect that the bits on top aren’t nutmeg. [The pictures probably won’t appear on the ‘Net and the brandy will surely take care of the salmonella.]
A Calendar of Coming Events
December 6th
Feast of Saint Nicholas
December 8th
Eid al-Adha the Festival of Sacrifice sundown
December 13th
December 21st
Winter Solstice [0604 Central Standard Time]
HogWatch
First day of Hanukkah [begins at sundown which is the night of the 22nd on Jewish calenders]
December 23rd
December 25th
Christmas
Birth of Mithras
December 26th
Boxing Day
Feast of Saint Stephan
First day of Kwanzaa
December 28th
Islamic New Year 1430 AH sundown
January 6th
Feast of the Epiphany
Día de los Reyes
January 7th
Orthodox Christmas
[When the Julian solar calendar replaced the old lunar calendar the Winter Solstice was December 25th. When Pope Gregory corrected the calendar he only corrected it by 10 days and not the full two weeks it was out of synch with the sun, so the date of the Solstice is now the 21st. Most Orthodox Churches continue to use the Julian calendar which is why their Christmas is on January 7th.]
Oh, this is the explanation of NODWISH coined by Mercury X23
9 comments
i love the season of the solstice…i love the season of christmas…the red and green of it…the lights, the glitter, the smell of fresh pine.
i sing christmas carols, even though i am not a christian…but i love the feeling i get…the melodies are dead on….and there’s something about singing along with a few hundred other humans…
i wish the season wasn’t so short…or so commercial. i wish it was a december-january thing…the darkest months of the year. sometimes january can be a little bleak after all that tinsel.
…and a bit lonely after all those carolers…
I hope you find the inspiration for the rest of your Twelve Days cards, Catnapping. They were wonderful.
When you rise so high, it is farther to fall and the lack of light is depressing.
Amen to that.
Christmas isn’t what it used to be for sure. Children are all grown up, family gone… The price of age. 🙂
I’m just waiting for the Hogfather. 😉 Or perhaps if he decided to vacation again, his stand in. 😉 LOL
Oh… almost forgot! In the proper spirit of the season…
“ER…HO. HO. HO.”
😀 😉
You know how much damage hooves do to roofing?
Isn’t mulled wine the spirit of the season?
I have two great nephews and a new great niece to annoy with toys, so it’s not a total loss, but they are it. The rest of us have decided we already have too much stuff and don’t need any more. Lately my brothers and I have been moving money among our Amazon accounts. No one remembers who started it with the original gift, but it’s the same amount that get shifted on our birthdays so we fulfill the requirement of a gift without having to think about it beyond the date.
It’s got to be a bit different when the Christmas holidays occur during the middle of the summer. Not much point in trying to recharge the sun when you are hoping the bugger would die so things would cool off.
OH, OH, OH [it’s the hemisphere difference] 😆
LOL We don’t get the whole *White Christmas* thing. But we just assume Yanks are crazy. 😉 LOL
I found a nice little stocking stuffer for you:
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (Hardcover)
It gives me the warm & fuzzies… and it’s not winter here! LOL
Of course, there’s not a snowflakes chance in hell… but hey. That’s what dreams are for, right. 🙂
I also heard a great quote on Rachel Maddow’s show Interviewing a union boss (I think) discussing the Auto workers and bailouts. (Leo Gerard from memory):
When we deregulated the financial sector, that was the economic equivalent of leaving a bunch of three year olds alone in a candy store. You know they’re going to gorge themselves and when you go get them, they’re going to throw up on your shoes. I’m just tired of having my shoes thrown up on by Wall Street.
Ain’t that the truth (or at least, a close approximation)! LOL
Merry whatever. Ho, haaaa… heee, hahaaa! ahem. 😉
I couldn’t resist this! PMSL
FL GOP Congresswoman hangs up on Obama…TWICE!
Which just goes to show the level of intelligence in GOP Politicians and why they appeal to the bottom of the moron class. LOL
I’m just laughing! LOL
OK… One more before bed! 😀
From The ONION! LOL
I’m Really Gonna Miss Systematically Destroying This Place
Ahhh well… on that note… G’night! 😉
The Congresscritter had a good reason – Sarah Palin isn’t the only politician ever hoaxed by a radio station and a Miami station has done it in the past. When I hear a politician on the phone I assume it’s a robo-call for money and hang up.
It will be the International Criminal Court or nothing when it comes to a trial for Bush. Of course, everyone he pardons is automatically in line for an ICC prosecution if someone wants to bring the case.
The last 8 years have been the equivalent of a really bad drug reaction, prescription or otherwise.