Gathering Things Together In A Kit

"Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines:

for our vines have tender grapes."

Song of Soloman 2:15

When I first read this week's word and before hopping down to the definitions, I was already thinking Kit Carson, Kit and Caboodle, baby animals, and first aid or survival kits. Even Kit the car and David Hasselhoff trickled to the surface of my brain, not to mention my ex-husband whose hobby was and still is model airplanes that he builds from scratch without a kit because he was and is a frigging engineering genius. Then I took a gander only to find out that Mo had mentioned all of them in some fashion. What to do? What to do? It's a mission to come up with something just a little bit different. So I sat down and had a good Pooh Bear thunk about it.

Finally, I decided that since a little fox is a kit, everyone might like getting acquainted with "The Little Foxes" and ended up finding one of the most remarkable sites yet, Brigham Young University reference material on The Little Foxes, Lillian Hellman, red baiting in the 1950s, the destructive power of greed and suspicion, and the context of the play set in the post Civil War south, plus cousin marriage and incest in law. It was simply too long and too good to not pass along the whole thing rather than just write based on the information contained in the syllabus. When you have a chance, simply check out all the links above as good places to visit, but save a good bit of time for the BYU piece.

Having used kit in as many ways as possible, I now will close with the all too unbelievably silly Rowan Atkinson (better known to some of you as Mr. Bean) playing "The Invisible Drum Kit"