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Four Calling Birds 2022

It’s the Fourth Day of Christmas and my true love did not give me four calling birds but she did give me 😘 more 💋 than 💋 a 💋 few 💋 kisses 😘, so it’s all good.

🐦 Exactly 🦜 Who 🦆 Are 🦩 These 🕊️ Birds 🦅 Calling? 🐧

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So, it seems that Calling Birds may actually be the product of a phonetic game of telephone. According to this article, “calling birds” may have been “colly birds” in an earlier version of English, meaning blackbirds.

Things get distorted over the course of centuries. What was commonplace at one time is arcane and obscure now. As with most things, this has accelerated in the last half century or so.

I don’t know about the birds, but calling on friends and family is a big part of our holiday celebrations. We made the rounds this weekend and it was a fun time all around.

This week, it’s back to work a few more days to wrap up what has been a nerve-wracking roller coaster of a year. I won’t be sad to see 2022 in the rear view mirror. Not even a little…

📅 Twelve Days Means Twelve Days 📆

12 Days of Medieval Christmas

Let me say again, for the good of all involved, that the Twelve Days of Christmas begin on Christmas. Christmas begins on Christmas Day (naturally) and it ends on Twelfth Night. Epiphany begins a new liturgical season and is no longer Christmas.

The commonly stated Twelve Days of Christmas at this time are the last 12 shopping days before Christmas, but NO they’re actually the second 12 days of Advent. Market goons ruin everything.

For instance, instead of recognizing that Christmas is actually twelve days long and making some kind of marketing ploy out of that, they throw up the Valentine’s candy on December 26th. C’mon, y’all…

Here’s a nifty acapella version of the 12 Days of Christmas, even if they’ve scrambled the stuff that comes after the 5 💍 golden 💍 rings.

Pentatonix – 12 Days Of Christmas (Official Video)

🤔 Fingers 🖐️

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. ~Isaac Asimov

The hour is late. The year is flowing rapidly away and creativity finds me basically braindead.

I’ve only got five episodes of Merry 🔔 Bells left to finish up, but I haven’t the little grey cells to pull it off. Not today, anyway. Thank goodness, I’ve got one last long weekend to get it wrapped up and scheduled.

I hate to be running right up against the wire again this year, but it’s been such a terrible time for writing. I’ll have to figure something out, because this is genuinely annoying.

Doesn’t help that my brain really wants to jump ship and work on Tales Of Olde Auringia when I should really be focusing on The Sentinels. All things being equal, I really just want to go back to bed.

As they say in Madeline, that’s all there is 🇫🇷 there isn’t anymore. Although, in my case, it’s just energy to think or write or do much of anything but sleep.