I’m wearing a new argyle sweater, gazing longingly at my new retro Darth Vader cookie jar. In my hand is a book, The Sayings of the Vikings, which contains hard, forged nuggets of motivational wisdom from the Uplands. Things like:

Never walk
away from home
ahead of your axe and sword.
You can’t feel a battle
in your bones
or foresee a fight.

I’d like to think that Darth Vader would approve, even in cookie-jar form.