The Gardener
Santa Clara, CA 95051
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Most of us know what gremlins are, or think we do. They snip the wires of biplanes and grow up to put glitches in binary code. They are the Grimm fairy tales that infect reality.
Germs. When I was young, adults explained how they turn copper green. They flourish in spit. They make spiders afraid.
During college days we were advised to read the Oxford English Dictionary, which has alternative explanations, little squibs of history with an aura of truth. Early sources are difficult to dispute.
Distinctions of these finer points are not the stuff of headlines. If it bleeds it leads. Not to snobify, but knowing how cashmere is woven won't make your bicycle safe from a goat. Deflation has no favorites.
In library circulation statistics there is some evidence that books about God are more popular than the OED, and that gremlins are more word of mouth. It is said they have evolved into Murphy's Law, then Moore's law which is something measurable. That is how statistics work.
Having lived almost eighty years now, maybe almost an adult, my hearty recommendation is a steamed apple. Chopped, with some Quaker oats, a whiff of cinnamon, sprig of mint, spoon of peanut butter. Sounds good?
Well, it is. Steam gets the gremlins going, all the rest, and is its own authority.
Sounds final? But that's just the beginning. Breakfast you know, with or without statistics, snap, crackle and pop, obeys no laws. Nothing much to speak of. And if so, why this?
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The Gardener
Santa Clara, CA 95051
theroot_