The holiday season is an amazing mishmash of ancient and contemporary traditions: Greek, Roman, Turkish, Norse, Germanic, Dutch, English, American and undoubtedly others, each adding their local and cultural influence. It’s rather like a potluck holiday, don’t you think?
- Happy Saturnalia, may your servants and slaves wear your best finery. May your gift exchange provide you with humor and honor. And may your sacrifices be slight, may the blood spill—only a little.
- May Saint Nicholas help you spread gifts, kindness and hope to all the children of the world.
- May your Yule log burn throughout the night. May the mistletoe remain vibrantly green in your doorway and its associated fertility seep into your familial line.
- May Frau Holle (Holly?), Old Mother Frost, shake her quilt to dust your lands with snow.
- May the Twelve Days count up with your true love’s strange taste in gifts and the arrival of the Three Wise Men.
- May your midnight mass be filled with solemn song and humble hymns.
- May Sinterklaas ride his fine white horse, delivering treats to kids in need of an early morning sugar rush.
- May Santa Claus and his trusty caribou break the laws of physics and geolocate your home and the deserving souls within.
- May you dismiss your servants to box with their families on Boxing Day.
- May the oil feed your lamp with guiding light during your eight crazy Hanukkah nights.
- May your first fruits of Kwanzaa be as tasty as those delicious Texas ruby grapefruit.
- May the miles of your twinkling lights blink all night to your neighbor’s chagrin, and may your pets avoid nibbling the poison poinsettias.
- May you enjoy grandma’s fruitcake, despite its pickled fruit and leaden chew.
- May the chocolate prizes behind each numbered door not taste of wax or plastic.
- May your gingerbread house turn to stone, the gumdrop path escape theft and the candycane lamp post not droop to a sad, bent peppermint puddle.
- May your stack of holiday cards grow each day, may your wreath avoid being blown down the street and may your tannenbaum retain its needles until you begin the nerve-wracking task of dragging its desiccated corpse from your living room.
- But mostly, and I believe this is the primary reason we even celebrate this time of year, may the death of the old year and the birth of the new bring closure and the promise of better things to come.
Happy Holidays,
‘Mole
Holiday Addendum:
May your KFC be crisp and your Christmas Cakes be light and fluffy and available throughout the holiday.
May your Christmas Eve fondue bubble like molten gold and your lobster, oyster or favorite stew be as tasty as it was in your youth.
May your stockings burst with a cornucopia of treats and tokens of gratitude.
May the repetition of a thousand holiday carols drill their insidious ear-worms such that even when you’re away from their constant drone you continue to hum them beneath your breath.
May your Nativity Scene remain aglow despite the weather or vandals.
May your candles flicker, their wicks grown long and their wax not drip into the carpet.
May you find your hidden broom when the snow builds on your doorstep.
Regardless of your traditions may they bring you joy and contentment. If you know of others that you’d like to share…
Anonymole - apocryphal agitators 
Christmas is finally here. For this last week or so, I have been watching all of my favorite old time black and white movies from the 30’s and 40’s – It’s a Wonderful Live, Miracle on 34th Street, The Bishop’s Wife, Miracle on 5th Avenue, Going My Way, Where No Angels, and the Shop Around the Corner. So much goodness. Today we will be watching one of our favorite modern movies that circle around Christmas – Love Actually which has to benefit of having multiple good feeling endings for just about everybody.
Now if next year we find a way as a country to come together to do what needs to be done to fix our current mixed up mess that would be nice. I leave you with an agenda.
May we understand that there is only one human race and we are all suffer from the same failing.
May our homeless find homes through all of our efforts
May our hungry find food through all of our efforts
May those out of work find meaningful well paid work through all of our efforts
And may the sick be made healthy through all of our efforts
And may we all finally realized that there is only one human family and no one need be our enemy.
Yeah it a lot we have to do.
Blessing to all.
And thank you Anonymole for your friendship and great heart.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Nicely said and an honorable sentiment. Thanks doodlediddy.
LikeLike
That was entertaining. Which one do you celebrate?
LikeLiked by 1 person
We used to do fondue and seafood for xmas eve. Ever since my heart attack, such things have been forbidden. Wife buys gifts for the kids. Stockings filled with candy. Yule log Youtube? Other than that, pretty lame anymore.
LikeLiked by 1 person
True. I feel like “lame” is a great description…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Have a Good One, whatever you call it, and may the next one be a hell of a lot better than the last. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Happy year’s ass-end, Mole, and an even happier new year’s placenta-soaked fontanel.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I think my own “soft spot” never fully grew in — it allows the cosmic nonsense to stream straight in.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Promises, promises…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Just reinforces the point: we don’t know who we are or what we’re doing!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Happy Solstice! The only holiday that matters to me — the light is coming back! (Once again the Star Dragons have failed to consume our Sun entirely, it’ll heal, feed our crops, and we get to live another year. Party!!)
LikeLiked by 1 person
You pretty much covered it! Happy Holidays!
LikeLiked by 1 person
And don’t forget about Festivus for the rest of us (as celebrated by Frank Costanza on Seinfeld).
And everybody’s favourite part – the Airing of Grievances!
Happy Festivus.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I did not know of this celebratory internet TV and meme. I’ll make sure to raise a toast this coming Wednesday, in a solidarity salude.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Happy Solstice to you, my friend. And Happy Uranus–may your…um, nevermind:-)
LikeLiked by 2 people
Happy Holidays! Hope you pass the solstice season in comfort and joy!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ho ho ho!
LikeLike
I hope no chocolate ever tastes like the one I tried today.
Yes to all. Let us hope. Happy holidays as well.
LikeLiked by 1 person