So, you’ve never heard of Automatic Zucchini?  Good, what follows will be a surprise. It’s rare that things are as they appear to be. Layers of pretention and deception must be peeled away in order to discover the truth. Like chameleons, we adjust to the environment, we scoot around trying to stay out of harm’s way. We go along to get along. Years of desperation ooze by as we try to make the most of the impotent cards we are dealt. As a kid in South Georgia, I often heard, “Either you make do or you do without”. This was not unusual … Continue reading Automatic Zucchini ~

This little treatise on the lovely language we share is only for the brave. __ Peruse at your leisure, English lovers. __   Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn: 1. _ The bandage was wound around the wound. 2. _ The farm was used to produce produce. 3. _ The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. 4. _ We must polish the Polish furniture. 5. _ He could lead if he would get the lead out. 6. _ The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 7. _ Since there … Continue reading Our English Language

$100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000, by which time it will be worth absolutely nothing to you. ____ Life is short, eat dessert first.   SUCCESS: At age 4 success is .  not peeing in your pants. At age 12 success is . having friends. At age 16 success is . having a drivers license. At age 20 success is . having sex. At age 35 success is . having money. At age 50 success is . having money. At age 60 success is . having sex. At age … Continue reading Did You Know

Hi, this is Zerrol. Welcome to my web page. Magic happens evey day. Seek it out and embrace it. Like love, it will enhance your life. __________ Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it. Never test the depth of the water with both feet. If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you. ____ Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat … Continue reading It Has Been Said

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An Abstract Notion. What has changed about how we use maps? Technology, Google, satellite surveillance and beyond. As simple as a straight line or as complicated as a geometrical calculation, maps educate us, instruct us, guide us. Have we travailed dirt roads, sea lanes, and sky trails only to come to the end of the line. Will our grasp exceed our reach? Can we measure infinity, quantify eternity? As a mere mortal, I don’t think so, as a dreamer, I can imagine. There is no salvation in becoming adapted to an insane world. ~z~. Continue reading An Abstract Notion

What is ~    Nature is Natural We are Natural We are a part of Nature We are the consequence of Nature Nature produced us Nature nourishes us Nature consumes us and transforms us We are recycled again and again We are part of the trees, the rivers the rocks and the grass the snake, the donkey an elephant’s ass Nature recycles us again and again We were once and will be again part of the earth, the stars and the sky a man, a woman, a hot apple pie We are part of the oceans and the air We are … Continue reading What is ~z~.

Thursday missive 2.19.2015. When you don’t know what you are doing, anything is possible.  zsg PS. Of course, I clicked the “Like” button for my own stuff.  Why should I not, I like it… and you should also. Continue reading Thursday missive 2.19.2015

Today’s missive will be short, hence… liar paradox A logical paradox that results from consideration of statements of the form “This statement is false.” If the statement is true, then it is false, whereas if it is false, then it is true. Something to think about when you have little else to think about.  I imply, you infer.   Z S Grantham Continue reading Thursday missive 2.19.2015