The slo-mo Time Decelerator HelmutPosted on 12/26/2019 5:37:29 AM PST by NOBO2012
Obviously I didn’t get that Time Decelerator I had on my Wish List as Christmas is now just another somewhat blurry entry in life’s memory book.
The slo-mo Time Decelerator Helmut
It’s hard to believe it’s Boxing Day already. The day after Christmas holiday was invented by the Victorian Brits and originally was the day the rich let their help off so they could go celebrate with their own families; the masters would present a Christmas box of gifts to their servants to take with them. How quaint.
Boxing day has taken on different meanings in different places since then. None more different than in California where over half of the nation’s homeless now reside.
Actually every day is boxing day in Cali.
The President has called their governor out on it as he was catching up on his tweetstream on Christmas:
Even the San Francisco Chronicle seems to have had it with the problem, coming down rather firmly on the President’s side:
The nation’s homelessness problem has to a disturbing degree become California’s homelessness problem. While the latest counts compiled by the federal government show that America’s homeless population is growing again after more than a decade of declines, the entire national increase and more can be attributed to California alone…
California’s dire statistics underscore the extent to which state and local policies drive an extraordinary and persistent failure to shelter the equivalent of a midsize city. Although the state has the worst housing shortage on the U.S. mainland, resistance to dealing with it remains endemic among the Legislature’s ruling Democrats and in nominally progressive cities such as San Francisco.
It’s amazing how long it takes for reality to hit some people upside the head. And that, my friends, is the real reason we still celebrate boxing day in America.
You’re free to put your money on the greased back metrosexual running Cali these days,
Does Gavin remind anyone else of Mitt?
me: my money will continue to be on the champ.
Have a nice, peaceful boxing day. Savor the taste and memories of the season.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
The over regulation and anti-business chickens are coming home.
What’s interesting about “Boxing Day” is that this exclusively British institution also had a later date which they characterized in song “Tw3elft Day of Christmas” known to some as “little Christmas” namely the observance of Epiphany that is used elsewhere for the exchanging of gifts. Which has fallen into disrepute here which is explained how below .
On This “Little Christmas”
January 6th from my The First Book Of Moses poetry page
On This “Little Christmas”
January 6th
Once Upon a Time and not too long ago
The Twelfth Night Of Christmas
was celebrated with a ball
From the Day of Babes Birth
and the 11 thereafter
kith and kin were paid a visit
and friends from far and near
once were paid a call
So on this day I pray in the spirit that this date recalls
Let the gift of homage of kings gain
in the spirit of the days this season yet remain
ere it wane
Be thine Blessings Great
and misfortunes thee none befall
This poem is an abbreviated version from my websites poetry page which shows how the Christmas season was observed by Catholics in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood during depression times and WWII.The page also lists the differences from traditional Roman Catholic Christmas observance and the present after Vatican 2.Which eliminated a period of mortification during the advent period of fast and abstinence or reducing enphasis on observing feast days such as Immaculate Conception December 8th and the 12th day of Christmas known as the Epiphany January 6th.Resulting in listing Epiphany no longer on most calendars because of the decision to observe Epiphany to a Sunday following Christmas the 25th.
http://www.theusmat.com/natdesk.htm
The 12 days of Christmas has its origins in the recusant Catholics in England who celebrated the traditional Catholic holidays clandestinely. The Anglican Church was strongly influenced by Calvinism in the 16th through 18th Centuries. Calvinists believed that the celebration of traditional holidays was not justified by Scripture. Catholic beliefs were maintained by a significant percentage of the old nobility and in the north of England. So the song “12 Days of Christmas” reflects the resistance to the Protestant ascendancy.
And it is the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
My English-Scottish-Irish ancestors, in eastern NC since the late 1600’s, celebrated “Old Christmas” on January 6, “Epiphany”, when the three non-Jewish Magi showed up at Christ’s stable. The folks celebrated with holly with red berries and it was traditional that the cattle kneeled on that day. This was still the practice when my Dad was a boy.
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