Sloth

It took me quite some time to get up off my bum and write this

today because sloth is so easy to slip into like an old pair

of slippers and really rather enjoyable.

If it isn't the sloth brothers.

  

Sloth is such a nice word too. 

Say it over and over again to yourself and pretty soon

inactivity will enfold you like a giant pink comfort blanket.

Apathy will soon follow, together with a distinct lack of

desire to fulfil any social obligation whatsoever.

 

He's nothing to do with me but I do love a good stereotype.

 

And the really good thing about sloth is that it's perfectly legal,

although admittedly habit forming, and with only a few

teensie little physical side effects such as muscle

wasting, deep vein thrombosis and eventual brain death if you take
it to extremes.

  

Apart from all that sloth beats recreational drugs any day of the

week and won't cost you a penny except for the small

problem of lost earnings.  But we won't dwell on that.

Wisdom - gone but not forgotten

 

Samplers over the centuries have always seemed to concentrate

on worthy sentiments such as Patience, Virtue and Wisdom.

Hands up who's ever seen one banging on about Sloth?

 

ODE TO SLOTH

Oh help me spend each idle day

Asleep or on my back.

Allow sweet Sloth to succour me

While I lie prone and slack.

Unfinished WIP or slothful RIP?

 

Perhaps there are hundreds of them out there languishing in drawers

and attics but never proudly on display.  Not because taking

pride in them would be yet another sin but simply because

their slothful creators never got around to finishing them.

You know who you are!

Ride 'em cowboy.

 

The prize for the best sloth quote has to go to dear old

Ronald Regan who said, "I've heard that hard work never killed

anyone, but I say why take the chance?" or did he?

 

Don't go to sleep dude or you really will drop off.

How do you fancy a spell in the snake pit 'cos that's the

punishment on Judgement Day for all those hours spent chilling

out on the sofa.  What do you think about light blue for the

colour?  Very apt 'cos it can't summon up the energy to

become a proper blue.  And as for the animal, I don't see what

a goat has to do with it at all.  I've kept several goats in my

time and they none of them kept still for even five minutes

so I've taken the liberty of changing it to the obvious choice.

The sloth - he was made for the job.

Virtue - too late, this one's been discontinued too.

 

When you can be bothered, click and drag yourself over to the

Long Dog website.  It's probably too much to imagine you'll be

lively enough to order something but I live in hopes.

 

www.longdogsampler.com

 

Coming soon - a big helping of GREED.