Day 2,798 —Happy Saturnalia! — with my PICTURE OF a TRAIN on an OVERPASS

If you don’t know about Saturnalia, I include the below description from the Encyclopedia Romana: 

During the holiday, restrictions were relaxed and the social order inverted. Gambling was allowed in public. Slaves were permitted to use dice and did not have to work. . . Within the family, a Lord of Misrule was chosen. Slaves were treated as equals, allowed to wear their masters' clothing, and be waited on at meal time in remembrance of an earlier golden age thought to have been ushered in by the god. In the Saturnalia, Lucian relates that "During My week the serious is barred; no business allowed. Drinking, noise and games and dice, appointing of kings and feasting of slaves, singing naked, clapping of frenzied hands, an occasional ducking of corked faces in icy water—such are the functions over which I preside." 

It seems like this was a time that focused on the lower class. In a lot of ways, it seems like it would be more overall beneficial to stop all business from now until the 23 compared to the way we celebrate now. Currently, the lower class will be working during the holiday season, and those who get a break are more likely to be upper class.  

However, you celebrate today have a great Friday!