Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the desert and it's Christmas time.

Or Christmas Tide as it was called for so long, until over time the word Tide became the word

time in common usage, which also means Tide. Time is Old English and Tide is Old Norse. They both meant season or appointed hour, that sort of thing.

Could be a festive season or the hour when the sea rose up or decreased from the mysterious power of the moon.

Good tidings means good news or God's from the mysterious power of the moon.

Good tidings means good news, or godspell in old English.

Good story, good message.

So if Gandalf brings you evil tidings, that just means he heard the bad news and he had to deliver it to you.

But maybe he'll be back again with glad tidings when the tide is turned, when things have changed for the better.

As for the ocean tides, we don't worry too much about that in the American desert.

The water sloshing around the bathtub rings of Lake Havasu or Lake Powell is caused by wind or sudden heavy snow melt.

Monsoons and feeder canyon floods dumping rain just out of sight, just up the bend.

Or maybe a houseboat ran into you.

Or the dam engineer fell asleep on the red button that says drain reservoir.

In time, tides became the regular rise and fall of the sea, with the English adding the high and low descriptors,

which led over time to the blondie song, The Tide is High, originally recorded by the Jamaican

Rocksteady trio, the Paragon's, in 1967, written by lead vocalist and later reggae star

John Holt, who had his own hit with a cover song in 1974 when his version of Chris Christopherson's

helped me make it through the night.

Spent 11 weeks on the UK charts, peaking at number six.

Desert Oracle Radio I'm gonna. Here in the Mojave Desert, it is warmer than it has been on average these past dozen winters or so.

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