Redivivus – Wordplay Wednesday™ 01/01/2020

“Hindsight is 20/20.” What Will You Do with 2020’s Insight? 

Yes, a New Year can be exciting and invigorating. But this week we’re facing a double whammy! A New Year and a New Decade** … 2020 … a great time to recall the adage, “Hindsight is 20/20.”

Looking back can be scary; but it can also give you great insight to how you can revitalize your life in the New Year … New Decade … what will you do with it?

Whatever you want … it’s your once-in-a-decade opportunity to be …

REDIVIVUS (redʹi vīʹvɘs) adj. – restored to life; reborn; reincarnated: usually used metaphorically. [Pronounced red uh vi-vus; WW #249*]

At least once, before you reengage with reality after the Holidays, take some time for yourself. If that includes writing, work redivivus into your fiction, nonfiction, or blog. Where will it take you?

We all deserve a “second chance” at our resolutions—and that may be for the third, fourth, or tenth time! Hindsight’s insights can offer foresight. It’s called renewal …

Periodically, your body, mind, spirit and soul need refreshing. Why not now? Make 2020 a whole year of redivivus living.

Life is SO big …and yet, so small. Time makes decisions for us all. And timing is everything.

Word Challenge: REDIVIVUS. Happy New Year, New Decade, and CHEERS to you and yours as you fit redivivus into your week of restorative writings.

Learning knows no prejudices or boundaries, and it isn’t fattening! Expanding your mind is a no-cost, simple joy. Do you feel that way too? What’s your inspiration? Share your creative genius and Wordplay Wednesday comments below.

Write first for yourself … only then can you write for others. (L.Rochelle) 

Cheers to learning a new word on Wordplay Wednesday!

@PenchantForPen

@Irishwriter

**For those of you who are thoroughly confused about whether 2019 is the end of the decade, or 2020 is, you may gain a little insight on Wiki. Have fun!

[LinDee Rochelle is a writer and editor by trade, and an author by way of Rock & Roll. She has published two books in her Blast from Your Past series (of three) about pioneering R&R Radio DJs. True behind-the-mic tales make GREAT Holiday and anytime Gifts available on Amazon (eBook and print): Book 1 – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The First Five Years 1954-1959; and Book 2 – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The Swinging Sixties. Coming soon … The Psychedelic Seventies!]

*Note: Dictionary definitions are quoted from Webster’s New World College Dictionary. Yes, we sometimes present them out of “official” context—but that’s half the fun! Think of it as “creative context.”

Endnote: FYI – All links in the PFP site are personally visited, verified, and vetted. Most are linked to commonly accessed sites of reputable note. However, as with everything cyber-security, use at your own discretion.

E-N-Dzzzzzzzz  

Mysterioso – Wordplay Wednesday™ 12/25/2019

♪ We Wish You a Merry Christmas … ♪ 

As a society, we celebrate Christmas in infinite ways, with religion, and not. For it is in the spirit of the Holiday that we rejoice, and the pleasure of community enjoyment that we revel.

And for many, even those who follow closely with reverence and devotion, the birth of Christ remains …

MYSTERIOSO (mis tirʹē ōʹsō) adj. 1) misterioso, 2) having a mysterious nature or quality, inexplicable, enigmatic, etc. (misterioso, n. – someone or something that is mysterioso).

Enjoy a sense of cryptic revelation at this special time of year. Here’s hoping your Christmas week is full of glorious mysterioso moments, regardless of celebration,faith, culture, or country.

Word Challenge: MYSTERIOSO. Into every Holiday a little wonderment should fall, as you fit mysterioso into your week of esoteric writings.

Learning knows no prejudices or boundaries, and it isn’t fattening! Expanding your mind is a no-cost, simple joy. Do you feel that way too? What’s your inspiration? Share your creative genius and Wordplay Wednesday comments below.

Write first for yourself … only then can you write for others. (L.Rochelle) 

Cheers to learning a new word on Wordplay Wednesday!

@PenchantForPen

@Irishwriter

[LinDee Rochelle is a writer and editor by trade, and an author by way of Rock & Roll. She has published two books in her Blast from Your Past series (of three) about pioneering R&R Radio DJs. True behind-the-mic tales make GREAT Holiday and anytime Gifts available on Amazon (eBook and print): Book 1 – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The First Five Years 1954-1959; and Book 2 – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The Swinging Sixties. Coming soon … The Psychedelic Seventies!]

*Note: Dictionary definitions are quoted from Webster’s New World College Dictionary. Yes, we sometimes present them out of “official” context—but that’s half the fun! Think of it as “creative context.”

Endnote: FYI – All links in the PFP site are personally visited, verified, and vetted. Most are linked to commonly accessed sites of reputable note. However, as with everything cyber-security, use at your own discretion.

E-N-Dzzzzzzzz  

Nugatory – Wordplay Wednesday™ 12/18/2019

Every Kind Word, Every Charitable Gesture Embodies Christmas

Expecting something big and/or expensive for Christmas? Good for you. Hope you get it. But if you don’t, remember that this time of year, especially, “It’s the thought that counts” …

NUGATORY (nōōʹgɘ tôrʹē) adj. – 1) trifling, worthless; 2) not operative, invalid. [WW #247*]

Although another idiom dear to my heart applies as well, “One person’s junk is another’s treasure,” when it comes to gifts, I don’t believe anything is worth a nugatory label. There is always worth in the spirit of giving and receiving.

Regardless of your religious leanings (or none), we can’t help but know that Christmas Day was born from humble beginnings. So, as we wait another week for the gifts that symbolize those of the Magi, envision the family whose nugatory belongings rested on a burro, while they begged to sleep on a simple mat of hay, in the manger.

From humble beginnings ...

If you think about it, perhaps the lavish gift you expect isn’t what will make you squeal with glee. Recall the simple pleasures of Christmases past, and you may realize a nugatory present to your present self, is a delight to your inner child.

On a lighter side … when I first spotted nugatory I thought the venerable Webster misspelled “Negatory … good buddy!” The 1975 novelty pop tune “Convoy” by C.W. McCall (William Dale Fries) glorified truckers’ CB slang in three-and-a-half amusing minutes of long-haul truckin’ banter that made negatory a household word. The meaning isn’t quite the same … that’s a “no,” as the song quote notes … and it is only referenced in slang dictionaries, but still a fun flap of words.

 

Ah, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that, Pig Pen? Negatory, Pig Pen; you're still too close. Yeah, them hogs is startin' to close up my sinuses. Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten.

Word Challenge: NUGATORY. Don’t get your nugatory and negatory confused, as you fit nugatory into a week of priceless writings.

Learning knows no prejudices or boundaries, and it isn’t fattening! Expanding your mind is a no-cost, simple joy. Do you feel that way too? What’s your inspiration? Share your creative genius and Wordplay Wednesday comments below.

Write first for yourself … only then can you write for others. (L.Rochelle) 

Cheers to learning a new word on Wordplay Wednesday!

@PenchantForPen

@Irishwriter

[LinDee Rochelle is a writer and editor by trade, and an author by way of Rock & Roll. She has published two books in her Blast from Your Past series (of three) about pioneering R&R Radio DJs. True behind-the-mic tales make GREAT Holiday and anytime Gifts available on Amazon (eBook and print): Book 1 – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The First Five Years 1954-1959; and Book 2 – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The Swinging Sixties. Coming soon … The Psychedelic Seventies!]

*Note: Dictionary definitions are quoted from Webster’s New World College Dictionary. Yes, we sometimes present them out of “official” context—but that’s half the fun! Think of it as “creative context.”

Endnote: FYI – All links in the PFP site are personally visited, verified, and vetted. Most are linked to commonly accessed sites of reputable note. However, as with everything cyber-security, use at your own discretion.

E-N-Dzzzzzzzz