{"id":280,"date":"2018-01-01T21:07:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T02:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2023-12-29T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T16:56:13","slug":"the-fifth-day-of-christmas-five-golden-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"The Fifth Day of Christmas: Five Golden Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie Izzard jokes that at any Christmas party, when people hear this part of this carol, they run into the room to sing it.<\/p>\n

An additional funny thing is that it\u2019s so out of place. The first few days are gifts of birds, here\u2019s a sensible if overkill gift of the only jewelry in the song, and then we are back to two more birds. I had a personal a-ha! Moment when I learned that \u2018gold rings\u2019 could be a variation on \u2018gold spinks\u2019 (an old name for goldfinch). While the first printed version of the song we have has five finger rings in the illustration, that doesn\u2019t mean that the mistake didn\u2019t date to 1780. Logically, it doesn\u2019t fit to have the rings in the middle of the birds, to me. So, for the fifth day of Christmas, I will be thinking about change and mistakes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to be scared of change and mistakes. It leads to the unknown and out of our comfort zones, and it\u2019s frightening to be somewhere we don\u2019t know well. Even if the place we\u2019re used to is miserable. But change can lead to growth and a chance to move forward and into a better and happier comfort zone. And mistakes are a chance to refine and move forward. I try to remember that mistakes are proof of risk, and without risk there is no chance of reward.<\/p>\n

In our house, we have a wonderful desk my husband make over 20 years ago. It has a drop down leaf, so we\u2019d always have clean desk space, no matter how messy the desk got.\u00a0 The first time he cut the leaf, he cut it just a bit too small. Since then, the mistake he had made has been used to create larger table space for parties, a top to the rabbit hutch and it\u2019s currently a support for our Christmas tree. We still call it \u2018the mistake\u2019 and agree it\u2019s been an incredibly useful mistake over the years.<\/p>\n

So, on this fifth day of Christmas, I will remember that mistakes aren\u2019t bad by definition, only when you allow them to be so.<\/p>\n

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