Long Dog Samplers: Pride

According to some sources, Pride is the sin from which all others

arise, the punishment for which was being broken on the wheel.

Each sin was also allocated it's own colour (as you do) and an

animal associate for good measure. In this case violet and

the horse who's pride, to this day, is referred to as it's "mettle".

I love a stallion with a bit of attitude. What do you say Ginger?

That's my boy!

Personally I'm a born sinner and can't see what's wrong with a bit

of pride. It's a sense of one's own proper dignity or value; of self-

respect; it makes you fair want to beam when a goal is achieved;

it's the warm glow a parent experiences when one of their sprogs

has done something noteworthy for a change. I wonder if the

mother was too proud to push but that might lead us all off at

another one of my tangents.

Is that my boy?

Now here's where sinfulness starts to creep in when things are

worded just a little differently. Pride is "to indulge in a feeling of

pleasure and satisfaction". I shall resist the temptation to follow

that particular line of argument to it's possible conclusion not for

fear of another tangent but of sudden blindness or hairs starting

to sprout from the palms of both hands.

That's worse than the wheel any day!

As proud as a peacock

So there you have it - proud (complimentary) = overjoyed,

delighted, happy; proud (disapproving) = I think JF Powers

summed it up rather succinctly when he said "The curate sounded

proud, like someone who habitually brushed his teeth with salt!"

Mots d'Amour - perhaps this should have been Lust!

I am humunguously proud of all my Long Dog's large or small,

mono or multi, wicked and wanton so if you're feeling a bit

sinful nip along to the website and chose a naughty little number

for yourself:

Each chart comes with pride guaranteed once the design has been

stitched and even more dollops of pride after it's been framed.

Tune in next time folks for ENVY the green-eyed monster!

Long Dog Samplers