Merry Christmas!

[June]

Just made it to Tampa to be with my daughter for Christmas and thought I would wish my friends in Volvoland Merry Christmas! June

[RickHaleParker]

Merry whatever tickles your fancy.

Children's Day (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Republic of Congo)
Christian feast day: Anastasia of Sirmium (Catholic Church) (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Christmas Day: (Internationally observed)
Tulsi Pujan Diwas (India)
Constitution Day (Taiwan)
Good Governance Day (India)
Malkh-Festival (Nakh peoples of Chechnya and Ingushetia)
Newtonmas (Secular alternative to Christmas )
Quaid-e-Azam's Day (Pakistan)
Takanakuy (Chumbivilcas Province, Peru)
Winter solstice (Midwinter) shortest day of the year. The return of the Sun.

[Phainein7]

Merry whatever tickles your fancy.

Happy Saturnalia—2019!

December 17

The Encyclopedia Romana has a helpful description of Saturnalia:

During the holiday, restrictions were relaxed and the social order
inverted. Gambling was allowed in public. Slaves were permitted to use
dice and did not have to work. . . Within the family, a Lord of
Misrule was chosen. Slaves were treated as equals, allowed to wear
their masters' clothing, and be waited on at meal time in remembrance
of an earlier golden age thought to have been ushered in by the god.
In the Saturnalia, Lucian relates that "During My week the serious is
barred; no business allowed. Drinking, noise and games and dice,
appointing of kings and feasting of slaves, singing naked, clapping of
frenzied hands, an occasional ducking of corked faces in icy
water—such are the functions over which I preside."

https://reason.com/2019/12/17/happy-saturnalia-2019/

[RickHaleParker]

December 26.

Merry
Boxing day (Commonwealth of Nations)
Kwanzaa (Untied States)
First of Twelve Days of Christmas. (St. Stephen feast).