{posted to Facebook}Thanksgiving is next week. Advent starts the Sunday after that and I expect to see whining posts about putting "Christ" in Christmas shortly there after ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was chatting with a friend about Christmas. In short, I was explaining how the darkness begins to deepen after the cross-quarter celebration of Oidhche Shamhna - Halloween - until it reaches its darkest on the longest night - the Winter Solstice. Then there is a slow increase of light until the cross-quarter celebration of Imbolc - St ( Read more... )

The Magi left the sìthean - the castle of the little people, on the morning of the 7th day. While they were there, they spoke of the Star and the King whose birth it signaled and the ways in which their magic revealed this child would change the world and rule it. To most of the court, it was an interesting tale, full of wonder and entertaining ( Read more... )

... the Magi left the castle, heading for the village where Gaspar planned to take advantage of after-the-holiday sales. Melchior and Balthazar were (quietly) discussing the possibility of tying him to Haga the camel, Sophia's mother, in order to get through the village in record time. Neither want a repeat of the year wherein they almost missed ( Read more... )

It was getting late on the fifth day of Christmas as the three magi approached the castle. They were arguing, I'm afraid. Balthazar was convinced that this wasn't the same way they'd come last time; he was sure that they had traveled through a forest then, but Gaspar was positive that they'd followed the same route exactly; after all, there was ( Read more... )

Air an dàrna là deug den Nollaig, chuir m' eudail thugam fhìn ( Read more... )

Air an aona là deug den Nollaig, chuir m' eudail thugam fhìn ( Read more... )

Air an naoidheamh là den Nollaig, chuir m' eudail thugam fhìn ( Read more... )

It just occurred to me that I forgot yesterday (wasn't feeling well, bha òrrais agam).

Air an t-seachdamh là den Nollaig, chuir m' eudail thugam fhìn ( Read more... )

Cha mhòr diochuimhne orm a phostadh seo.

Air an t-siathamh là den Nollaig, chuir m' eudail thugam fhìn
sia seòid le sùrdag, còig cailleachan-oidhche, ceithir cuthagan
trì cearcan-fraoich, dà chalman agus smeòrach le ceileireadh binn.

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On the sixth day of Christmas, my sweetheart sent to me ( Read more... )