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As Right as Numbers

 "..lend me your heart and I'll just let you fall
Lend me your eyes I can change what you see
But your soul you must keep, totally free"
                                              Awake my soul
                                                   Mumford and Sons



It rained pretty much all of today, Sunday. For a moment I was anxious as i walked to the supermarket. I had no head covering. But it was all OK. Not that it had stopped raining then, oh no, quite the opposite.  

The heavens opened. But the rain felt so right. Falling on my head. A powerful tingle, a heavenly massage for a weary head. At that moment, I wished my walk had been longer. The blowy wind gusts and pouring rain, it all felt so right. Only nature knows how to cleanse and awaken me. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a powerful essay on Nature, advocating the role of an individual's private mind and the need for self reliance and connection with nature. I must read that essay some day.  

Tonight I am deep in numbers. Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers. Hard absolute, matter of fact numbers. Numbers that don't speak to me, but I speak to them. I try so hard to understand these numbers before me.  Numbers that can explain everything - from the cold financial reality of life, to the beautiful Mandelbot set fractal patterns in nature.

Numbers, please come alive! 




“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature


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