If you haven’t read my first tiny talk on gremlins, you can check it out here: Small Gifts Everywhere (or don’t kick the gremlins).
Now that I’ve shared my gremlin theory, here are some helpful hints for coexisting with gremlins . . .
Gremlins like to come and go; they love to jump from one person to the next. If you make a gremlin happy, you will be making someone else’s life a bit better — without them even knowing it. And that’s a good thing. Every bit of sweetness we create in the world creates ripples And those ripples all work together to create waves of wonder.
If you’re good to the gremlins, you’ll build a reputation in the gremlin community and they will be excited to come and visit you. When they’re excited, they’re more likely to give you obvious presents than they are to stub your toe.
If you want to be extra good to the gremlins, create spaces in and around your home for fairies. Yes, gremlins and fairies are allies. As best I can tell, fairies enjoy under places, beautiful places, safe spaces where they can chill and relax. These spaces can be in house plants, arrangements of stone, they can be spots in the garden or the lawn, even a tidied up space under a bush.
As for asking the gremlins to be mean… Just don’t do it. If the Gremlins were to be mean to someone on your behalf, they would turn around and bite you three times as hard. Even asking them to carry out fair retribution on our behalf is frowned upon. (Though I admit, sometimes I can’t help myself. When I do go down this road the next time gremlins mess with me in unpleasant ways I acknowledge that this is simply the price to pay.)
Gremlins can see everything good that we think and do and are. So even when they are tricksters, they are working to point us in the direction of becoming better than we already are.
My gremlin theory only exists in my imagination but I experience it as real and it makes my world a better place. Perhaps these thoughts can invite you down a path of your own imaginings.
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