The Twelfth Day of Christmas

It's Epiphany. This is from my Facebook Epiphany post in 2017....

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Here it is Epiphany already. The Twelfth Day of Christmas. We'll turn off the Christmas lights before we go to bed tonight and tomorrow begin putting the decorations away till last week of November. We had planned to celebrate with a neighborhood Three Kings get-together tonight but Sheila's cold turned ugly earlier in the week and we decided against it. Maybe next year.

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Back to 2023 --
Sadly, the last day of Christmas* is now also a day scarred by the memory of the loathsome attack on our Republic by Trumpists.  Some in our Congress actually voted to overturn the most basic of republican values that very day even after the attack. Some of them continue to deny the simple well-documented and court-tested fact of the election results of 2020. And now our 118th House of Representatives will be controlled by apologists for the traitors of January 6, 2021. Patriots cannot rest. We must work these two years to be sure the likes of Andrew Clyde, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaitz, and other extremists are voted out of our Congress.

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*Evidently there are several traditions for counting the days of the Christmas season. Some count the twelve days of Christmas beginning with Christmas Day Dec. 25, others count the twelve days beginning Dec. 26. Some consider Christmastide as lasting till Feb. 2! And commercial Christmas begins about Labor Day and ends when stores close on Christmas Eve. I choose to consider Epiphany/Three Kings Day/Old Christmas (Jan. 6) as the end of the Christmas season. 

😊  So Merry Christmas y'all.