Nothing has proven itself once more. After spending hours trying to find a password to suit my new printer, I was in despair. Why did it not answer any of my reliable code words built up over the years?
The answer, provided on a hunch by my sister Carol, was none. All I should have done was to simply ignore the request. Doing so would have both saved time and preserved my peace of soul. Instead, I tortured myself by searching for something that did not exist.
It’s not as if I had never before ignored the request for a password. On more than one occasion, one of the smart tutors at the Apple store had shown me to provide no answer. But, keeping my focus on reason I failed to discover the beautiful way of nothing at all.