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Lord of Misrule
\LORD-uv-miss-ROOL\
noun : a master of Christmas revels in England especially in the 15th and 16th centuries Examples: Jesters, pipers, jugglers, and drummers followed the lord of misrule into the court for the singing of the carols. "Christmas before Victoria was a wild affair, in which the fun was presided over by the Lord of Misrule, and it was full of lewd and naughty pranksusually strictly for the grown-ups." From an article in the Northern Echo, September 20, 2012 Did you know? Late in the medieval days of England, the royal court, the houses of noblemen, and many colleges at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford appointed a manager for their Christmas festivities and dubbed him the "lord of misrule" or the "abbot of misrule." The lord of misrule was responsible for arranging all Christmas entertainment, including plays, processions, and feasts. The lord himself usually presided over these affairs with a mock court and received comic homage from the revelers. Scholars believe that the name "lord of misrule" (sometimes capitalized, as in our second example sentence above) was taken from the name of the official who presided over an older New Year's celebration called the "Feast of Fools."
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for December 25, 2012
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How did you celebrate? And we still have the New Year to celebrate! More of the same. . .
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If someone waits for you it doesn't mean that they have nothing else to do, it just means that nothing else is more important than you...
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Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
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“We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar”
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". . . cartoonists, get to work from home. They get to hang out at home with their cats all day and draw pictures and eat candy and if they don't feel like wearing pants they can just take their pants right off and work without any pants on. . ."
Make a squiggle. Put eyes on a doodle. Draw a smile on a coffee cup. You have not lost the creative spirit. You can do it.
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Don't let the reindeer get you down!
You don't have to give everything.
You don't have to receive everything.
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