Doty the Fox

Here I shall make a list of all of the reasons why I should be "Doty the Fox" and not "Doty Bear"

1. Look at me
2. I'm not big enough to be a bear
3. I can't cuddle, no one has ever cuddled with me
4. I'm sly like a fox
5. I hate the cold, bears are always up in the mountains with the cold
6. I could never sleep as long as bears do.
7. Foxes are carnivores, I am a carnivore
8. Bears play in the river and eat fish, I can't stand the smell of fish
9. Are you calling me fat?
10. The Modern English "fox" is derived from Old English fox. The Old English word itself comes from the Proto-Germanic word fukh – compare German Fuchs, Gothic fauho, Old Norse foa and Dutch vos. It corresponds to the Proto-Indo-European word puk- meaning "tail" (compare Sanskrit puccha, also "tail"). The bushy tail is also the source of the word for fox in Welsh: llwynog, from llwyn, "bush, grove" therefore often assumed that it means 'fox', although this meaning was known to be the compiler of the Peniarth Glosses Lithuanian: uodegis, from uodega, "tail", and Portuguese: raposa, from rabo, "tail"

so there!


Now you got me wasting time as well

The Hellbound Train

A Texas cowboy lay down on a barroom floor, having drunk so much he could drink no more
So he fell asleep with a troubled brain, to dream that he rode on a hell-bound train.

The engine with murderous blood was damp, and was brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp;
An imp, for fuel, was shoveling bones, while the furnace rang with a thousand groans.

The boiler was filled with lager beer, and the devil himself was the engineer;
The passengers were a most motley crew -- Church member, atheist, Gentile and Jew,

Rich men in broadcloth, beggars in rags, handsome young ladies, and withered old bags,
Yellow and black men, red, brown and white, all chained together -- Oh God, what a sight!

While the train rushed on at an awful pace -- the sulfurous fumes scorched their hands and face;
Wider and wider the country grew, as faster and faster the engine flew.

Louder and louder the thunder crashed and brighter and brighter the lightning flashed;
Hotter and hotter the air became, till the clothes were burned from each quivering frame.

And out of the distance there arose a yell, "Ha, ha," said the devil, "we're nearing hell!"
Then oh, how the passengers all shrieked with pain, and begged the devil to stop the train.

But he capered about and danced for glee, and laughed and joked at their misery.
"My faithful friends, you have done the work, and the devil never can a payday shirk.

"You've bullied the weak, you've robbed the poor, the starving brother you've turned from thedoor;
You've laid up gold where canker rust, and have given free vent to your beastly lust.

"You've justice scorned, and corruption sown, and trampled the laws of nature down.
You have drunk, rioted, cheated, plundered, and lied, and mocked at God in your hell-born pride.

"You've paid full fare, so I'll carry you through, for it's only right you should have your due.
Why, the laborer always expects his hire, so I'll land you save in the lake of fire,

"Where your flesh will waste in the flames that roar, and my imps torment you forevermore."
Then the cowboy awoke with an anguished cry, his clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high.

Then he prayed as he never had prayed till hour, to be saved from his sin and the demon's power;
and his prayers and his vows were not in vain, for he never rode the hell-bound train.

-unsure

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and noisily they will have taken cover before you switch on the light.
-C.S. Lewis

Quote for the day

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them

-Edward R. Murrow

Quote for the day

"So if various trials are allotted to you, partake of life's bitter cups, but without becoming bitter."

- Elder Neal A. Maxwell
of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Harmonic Love

The Sequal to "The Venus Fly Trap"

....a work in progress....

"It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. 

There are no ordinary people.

You have never talked to a mere mortal.  Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations-  these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.  But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit."

  - C. S. Lewis

........It is a profound thought....

What to you cleave to?

Life changes as does everything.

People get married, serve missions, go out to school.  The group that once thrived no longer lives.  

My new blog, my new life, my new world.................Why?...........for many reasons, but also because I forgot the password to my old account!