08.04.23

Alligators and crocodiles come into play for me when I’m working through some grumps or smoothing some crinkles. My known channel of association for this (in order of retrieval): the word, “rankle”, found in a dictionary on a float trip; a holiday/thank you card sent to a past Latin professor from Minneapolis; Teresa of Ávila’s writings of pet reptiles that keep us distracted from what is good; and Roald Dahl’s ‘The Enormous Crocodile’. I think this one has the most relation to ‘The Enormous Crocodile’, who thankfully did not succeed in his plans to gobble up one or two unsuspecting children from the nearby village.