Ever since I was a child, finding four leaf clovers has come super easily. I’m not sure why (I don’t think it’s synesthesia…), but they just sort of “pop out” at me as I look around. I can spot them as I walk along the sidewalk at a decent pace, and one time I even found one after a glance to check my mirrors while I was parking a car.

When I was 5 years old, I found a huge clump of dozens of four and five leaf clovers and was blown away. Ever since, I wanted to have a “lucky patch” of clovers where anyone would be able to find a four leaf clover to take with them. After a chance sighting of a patch of lucky clovers at Fort Point near the golden gate bridge, I pulled up a tiny part of the clump (leaving plenty of luck behind) and replanted in a pot at home.

Some observations after finding hundreds of 4 & 5 leaf (and even a few 6 leaf) clovers my whole life:

• four leaf clovers are everywhere!

• four & five leaf clovers tend to grow in bunches - if you see one, keep looking!

• some clover varieties don’t seem to have 4 leaf variants. It would be cool to sequence the DNA to see if that has something to do with it.

• quite a few people don’t even believe that four leaf clovers are real! If I encounter a naysayer outside I can usually find a four leaf clover in a few minutes so they can see for themselves

Still to be found… the infamous lucky seven leaf clover from Futurama.

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