Roots: a meaningful mixed-up metaphor
I once heard an old Texas expression 'that's in my gearbox', meaning that a particular story, song- whatever- connects to a place where things really move you. [Not to be confused with the 2003 Urban Dictionary meaning of 'gearbox'.] The things that you discovered while growing up that made you say 'this is what I want to do.' Springsteen, in his autobiography, writes about seeing Elvis on the Ed Sullivan show when he was a kid, and that moved him to try and become a rock sta
