Happy Holidays from the Fellowship of the Cosmic Mind

With all that's going on in Gaza it'll be a sobering holiday period, but nevertheless I wish you all a happy Christmas. Who knows, maybe 2024 will bring a turning of the tide in our favour as people who strive for sanity and conscience? Hope springs eternal....

All the best to you all!:-)
 
Yesterday, I met a guy that I had not seen in about maybe a year. We had a short catch-up chat and he wished me the best of health, the season, etc. I did the same, but instead of closing with the usual "may you have a [wonderful or whatever] New Year," for some reason my mind started to furiously rush around trying to come up with a supportive yet different word all while I was saying the phrase. All of a sudden, the word vivacious popped into my mind and that's what came out. He said he liked that word, so a win for me. He drove on, and I walked back to the house actually saying "I don't think I've ever used that word." I didn't even know what it meant!

The first definition shows it means vigorous, lively with a second definition, being apparently obsolete according to some dictionaries, of having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived. Coming from the Latin vivax it stems from the PIE root *gwei- "to live".

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit jivah "alive, living;" Old Persian *jivaka- "alive," Middle Persian zhiwak "alive;" Greek bios "one's life, course or way of living, lifetime," zoe "animal life, organic life;" Old English cwic, cwicu "living, alive;" Latin vivus "living, alive," vita "life;" Old Church Slavonic zivo "to live;" Lithuanian gyvas "living, alive," gyvata "(eternal) life;" Old Irish bethu "life," bith "age;" Welsh byd "world."
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So, I wish you all a Merry Christmas, a Merry Caesarmas and a vivacious New Year! 🕯️🎄🎉
 
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