Twelve Days Of Christmas – On The Eighth Day
Posted on Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
Welcome to my Twelve Days of Christmas Giveaway!
I’m having a little fun tying a bit of my old catechism and Christmas into an introduction and a chance to win the fun book I am so happy to be a part of:
Tangerine Tango.
In this book, twelve women writers have gathered together to share stories of life, love, loss, pain, pleasure… so many moments and memories.
And, I thought, what better way to share stories from these twelve writers than with a story about another twelve stories.
“The Twelve Days of Christmas” starts liturgically on Christmas Day and ends on the Feast of the Epiphany. Symbolism has always been used, in every religion, to explain doctrine. I’m not a theologian or a Bible scholar… far from it. I just find this interesting and meaningful. Click on this link for a quick explanation of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” as a catechism lesson. According to the source, Catholic.net, today teaches:
- “Eight maids a milking” are the Eight Beatitudes.
As a Catholic who learned her catechism, this is all very helpful. But, it’s also a good excuse to procrastinate in my family. We rarely get all our gifts together before Christmas. Instead, we use the church’s liturgical season, the Twelve Days of Christmas, to stretch out our shopping and to drag out the season. It works for us!
So, here’s how I would like to stretch out this Christmas season. I am going to share an excerpt from the book Tangerine Tango every day for the next twelve days – The Twelve Days of Christmas. In each excerpt, I hope you’ll find something to intrigue you to want to learn more.
Oh, did I mention a chance to win?
After you read the excerpt from Tangerine Tango, be sure to comment with your thoughts. At the end of the Twelve Days, I’ll throw all the names in a hat and draw a name to win a printed copy of Tangerine Tango. Your name will be entered each time you comment, so comment often! Now, enjoy this short excerpt…
The Cabinet
by
Gabi Coatsworth
I was quite sure my daughter wouldn’t want it. She’d grown up seeing the cabinet behind the kitchen door in our London flat. I kept canned and dry goods inside and also the biscuit tin. I remembered the times when she’d sneaked a biscuit, thinking I hadn’t known, and smiled.
I brought my thoughts back to the cabinet, as I reached for a dusting cloth and wiped it down, erasing the heart on the top. You must stop being so sentimental, I chided myself. Looked at with dispassionate eyes, what was the cabinet, really? Some mahogany that a Victorian cabinet maker had assembled into a piece of furniture. That was the way to look at it: surplus wood should be taken to the town dump.
(Meet Gabi Coatsworth at GabiCoatsworth.wordpress.com)
To keep reading, please click on and order your own copy of Tangerine Tango – available both as a cute paperback or as a download. (Proceeds after expenses are donated to aid research for the cure for Huntington disease.)
And don’t forget to leave a comment below for a chance to win your very own printed copy of Tangerine Tango!
I’ll be back tomorrow with the next day’s excerpt. Until then, enjoy the Season!
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