Happy Three Kings Day!

[cdozo]

I'm in Connecticut and it snowed last night. The Christmas tree is still up. All of the tinsel and half the ornaments are off, but it's still festive

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[dinahprincedaly]

Love that your mom told the story so you'd have vivid images and how sometimes they'd be lavish and sometimes austere

[e_moon60]

The church calls it Epiphany, and holds a service. In my childhood home, the figures of the Three Kings started at the far end of the living room and moved a bit day by day because they weren't allowed at the stable scene until Epiphany. The tree stays up until then, too. (Once, as a child, I talked my mother into leaving it up longer, until the dried needles on the floor were too annoying, sticking us in the feet. After that...no tree in the house after Epiphany.) One of the problems with that, if you grow up with it, is that when you later hear people say "I had an epiphany..." three men on camels (they were camels in the figurines we had) and a spare camel for the tents, which usually wobbled and fell over, would come to mind. Could not get the Three Kings untangled from the word. I wondered if every epiphany with a little e involved three gifts like the one with the big E, and if they were the same gifts. People usually seemed happy about having one.