This is it - the holiday month. That’s how I think of December. It isn’t just the days around Christmas. It seems to go on and on. It turns out that there are 11 “religious” sorts of holidays in December. There are four major religions celebrating something in the month. The AI summary lists Yule as a Pagan and Wiccan festival and includes it in the four. It is named Yule.
There are a few historical events celebrated in December. The first patent was granted for the toilet paper roll. According to the inventor Joseph Gayetty, the toilet roll paper should go up and over. He also invented toilet paper in 1857, naming it medicated paper for the water-closet. That’s in the western world. In the East, there was toilet paper from the 600s AD.
Moving on to more lofty events, it is Nobel Peace Prize month. And didn’t Charles Dickens publish the Christmas Carol on December 19th, 1843 What excellent timing. By the 24th, the first edition of 6,000 copies was sold out and by January 2nd, a second edition of 3,000 was sold.
This morning’s light reveals a snow fall in the night. It makes me think of this snow storm at the Niagara Falls Butterfly Conservatory garden quite a few years ago.
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