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My favorite photo from caroling season 2025, from a carolgram delivered last weekend. Something about the way the light filters through that curtain behind the tree. ⭐️🌟✨🎄🏠🎶🎼🎵

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December 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is WASSAIL/HEALTH #wotd #wassail #health #HereWeComeAwassailing #wassailing #Christmas #ChristmasCarol
You know that old Christmas carol Here We Come A-wassailing? Well it’s all about drinking a toast to someone's health. Wassail comes from the Old English expression wes hal “be hale”. The same Germanic root that produced Old English hal also led to the word health. This Old English expression came to be used as a sort of toast, and eventually transferred over to the drink itself, the wassail cup, which was kind of like the hot punch you get at Christmas parties, only it included more stuff in it, like cream, egg, and nuts, and believe it or not toast, kind of like the way we put croutons in soup. And that’s where we get the expression to give a toast from, when one saucy gentleman upon seeing a beautiful woman bathing in the public baths scooped up a cup of the bath water and drank to her health, and his even saucier friend said, “you can keep the drink, I’ll take the toast” in other words the woman floating in the water.
December 18, 2023 at 4:52 PM