A Bear Story

The market was red again today. I'm now signed up with Darren for a crash course in new strategies for the market to take place beginning at 9:30AM on Monday morning. I have tools for making money when the market is green, but now I need to know what to do when it's red. I'm not worried, but I'm ready for more knowledge. However, I'm pretty sure a calculator will be involved in the lesson. I got the story today about why it's a bear market. The bear swipes down with his paws when he swats someone. A bull pushes up with his horns. I think bears are handsome animals, but I'm not as fond of them today as I was a week ago.

Speaking of bears reminds me of a conversation that took place years ago in my sister's kitchen. I was working in their nursery business then.  We left the green houses and went to the house for midmorning break because it was a cold winter's day. Fifteen minutes in front of a blazing fireplace with a cup of hot chocolate was heaven. At that time, my niece Stacy was in a class at school where a bear story had originated. It started something like this:  if a bear was asleep in the middle of a forest path. The story ended with a question. She told the story to Calvin, and he passed it on to me over a cup of hot cocoa. The question at the end of the story was this:  If the bear was asleep in the middle of the path, and you had to get around it to get to something, I can't remember what it was, but it was very important, what would you do? No time was allowed for thought. An immediate answer was required.. I replied that I would carefully walk around the bear and keep moving toward the goal. I remember Calvin giving me the hardest time about my answer. The story was meant to reveal things about the personality of the person answering the question.

I guess bears can be used to explain a lot of things.

 

Red is a very nice color... for birds.

How's this for a "bear" story?

Then I saw a second beast, and it looked like a bear. It was rearing up on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And I heard a voice saying to it, "Get up! Devour the flesh of many people!" 

Daniel 7:5

I'm not sure that's a lovely thought.lol

Peace.

Love, Linda