A LIL' BIT. You, too, have, no doubt, hear older folks use the term "smidgen", I'll bet.
I am not at all sure how they may have spelled it when they made use of the word: “smidgen.” Is that about right? Some purists deny the need for the letter “d”, but I hear of hint of it, however, so i keep it.
Nor, do I know where the term might have originated, or who first made use of it. Smidgen is the word needed when she put a set amount of whatever in something cooking. It was always the exact amount needed – no more no less.
I have often wondered if it may be that little something added for no particular reason other than that the cook causes it to be added to the recipe; the composer inserts a new theme,; the singer tries a trill where none existed before, or the seamstress does a different stitch in a strange site. We are all creating as we do our work, whatever it maybe. Some of us work on a much more personal level than others. John W. my friend in farming, feeds his five hundred of Black Angus cattle ever other day. The very fact that John has five hundred head of cattle again this year, shows that John is no dummy on raising cattle for profit. He says "smidgen", too.
There is subtle element of artistic merit in just every career a man or woman might undertake as his or her lifework. To that work we then devote our very best and put into the mysterious elixir which nourishes that hope for success. Some of the truly great people of this world have show themselves to be generous in their acknowledgment of having had divine help along the way. Maybe that's where the smidgen of perfection is intertwined.
A.L.M. April 12,2006 [c320wds]
