Some people have a great sense of direction.  Ask them which way is north, and low and behold… they seem to be able to point right in the direction of Santa’s Workshop.

Other folks can do things like look down onto a huge patch of clover, and pick out the one that has four leaves…. and they do it lightning quick.  Like Little Leprachauns, they are!

Some people have a talent for picking winning sports teams ( how are your NCAA Brackets tonight? ), or successful stocks, or great restaurants.  Still others can figure out which line will move the fastest at the grocery store.  I am totally miserable at this… I can assure you.

There are those people in life  with perfect pitch…. or  perhaps….the ability to match colors…. like they work in some  Garanimals Factory or something.

I like to call all of this “The Knack.”    We all have a knack for something.  Take the Old Man for example.  Knick Knack Paddy Whack… Give The  Dog A Bone.  This Old Man was really smacking it down… one through ten…..  wasn’t he?  Paddy Whacking the holy heck out of things.

Now me.  I have the uncanny knack for running into solid objects.  Walls.  Flower boxes attached to the front of houses.  It doesn’t really matter if it is stationery, or moving…  I can surely run square in to it.  Most of the times… this leaves a pretty decent mark.

In fact, just the other day, I knocked into a flower box with such force, that it thumped me down to the sidewalk, split the top of my ear open, and scared the Kibbles-n-Bits right out of our dogs. It wasn’t a new flower box.  I have passed that way a hundred times before.  You see….. I just have this crazy knack.

But I am straying from my original point… which was… we all have our special abilities.   That interior know-how. A hunch. A sense or a notion. Intuition.  The ability to listen to your inner-self.  (I am not so intuitive these days.  It seems it may have to do with the fact that I have run into so many different rock-solid objects.)

Now call me crazy, but I also believe this is directly related to Quantum Physics…  that branch of science which deals with indivisible units of energy (called Quanta…. and also known as Paddy Whacks…… ).  There are five main ideas which make up the  Quantum Theory…. and these offer support of this belief.  Energy is not continuous… for one thing.  The elemental particles of energy are inherently random.  Willy Nilly all over the place.  It is impossible to know position and momentum of those particles at any one point in time…. no rhyme and no reason.

So when you apply this to our inner abilities to “know” when something is going to happen… or think about a certain person and you see them later that day…. or knowing what time it is without consulting a clock….  ALL related to Quantum Physics… intuition… and The Knack.  Random Paddy Whacks.

I am of the opinion that some people are better at at this than others. Me?  Sometimes good… other times… I’m just running into to solid matter head first.

So what is my point to all of this?  Well… I don’t know that I  have much of a point… or that this is merely just an observation.

I guess I had this “gut feeling” that you would be reading this right now.  And look at that…. you are.

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” — Albert Einstein

“Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.”  — Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Holy Crap.  I can’t believe I just ran right into that tree.”  — Polly C. Kronenberger