Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Unity:


Unity is the glue that keeps a pack together. Unity lets many work as one. Sure, you’ve got an alpha dog at the top. You even have Alpha Dawg, starring Justin Timberlake. And that Alpha Dawg may have to keep pack members in line through displays of superiority, growling, winning at foosball, and urination. But losing at foosball and carpet stains are small prices to pay for pack unity. For divided we are wolves, but together we are WOLFPACK!

Unity can also make us behave like a violent pack of wolves, tearing small children and kittens apart. But that’s not the pack’s problem, is it?

GO PACK!

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Fortitude















Fortitude is what it takes. When fly fishing in -12 degree temperatures in wet pants, or trying to hold off going to the bathroom during the last five minutes of a movie, FORTITUDE makes it happen. But what is FORTITUDE? It is a FORT. A fort built out of ATTITUDE. Hence: FORTITUDE. And in that attitude-built fort you cannot be conquered, as you raise your drawbridge and declare “No girls allowed in my fort!” From your fort you can cast stones or possibly hot effluence at your enemies, causing them to burn, and call off their siege. From your mighty fort you are impregnable, but you will have no fort in which to avoid pregnation without FORTITUDE.


Fortitude. Good on a cold morning in wet pants. Good in a tree fort.