"Post hoc ergo propter hoc"

and the definition, "after this, therefore because of this".   Just love this bit of the only Latin I actually know.  I learned a great deal from West Wing. 

Palm Trees in the Porridge, my title, definitely a post hoc, just an ancient memory.  A children's story from a red cloth bound book checked from the library maybe 50 years ago.  A lovely shout out to the Hoover School library in Santa Ana, California.  Really though, the palm tree developed from the spoon of a little girl daydreaming while she ate her porridge...and then off we would go to the Far East on flying carpets and then, of course, there were palm trees.  From those early story rides on carpets and leaves I live with a daydream addiction that keeps me endlessly entertained.