VITAMIN D

OR DOES ANYONE HAVE A LIGHT?

Other than to take a neat picture, I wonder why anyone would want to hold the sun in their hand. Capture it, control it, use it, call on it, save it for a rainy day, all yes. But to hold it?

You hold onto your hat. Or you try to hold it when your bladder is full. Hold 'em or fold 'em in a card game. Hold up means to stop or to give up whatever possessions you have. Hold it is a more meaningful command than even hold up. Hold your horses a rather old fashioned saying, also designating stop.

Putting a hold on it is sometimes all it takes to ensure that one has first dibs. Hold on is also another kind of warning of impending danger. Hold tight or holding company or even holed up are variations or uses ranging in definition for some kind of security.

Then there's hold out, something more and more athletes are doing meaning withhold as in services. Hold all the marbles, hold the ace in their hands, or even hold the phone vary in situational usage.

But we're back to holding the sun in her hands. God held the whole world and that's understandable. Atlas once held the earth and that's not. But it's another neat picture and sometimes that's all there is. Analogies and applications break down eventually. And some never much get off the ground. Just hold fast for I'll have another entry, Lord willing, tomorrow.