Number Friends

A  L  O  H  A !

" Above 

the cloud with its shadow

 is the star 

with its light. 

Above all things 

reverence thyself. "  *

Pythagoras 

*Sociopaths Excepted PLEASE

" There is geometry

 in the humming of the strings,

 there is music 

in the spacing of the spheres. "

Pythagoras 

Oh yeah, the "Music of the Spheres" guy

" The dictum of the Pythagorean school was 

"All is number."

What this meant was that 

all things of the universe 

had a numerical attribute 

that uniquely described them. 

For example,

• The number one : the number of reason.
• The number two: the first even or female number, the number of opinion.
• The number three: the first true male number, the number of harmony.
• The number four: the number of justice or retribution.
• The number five: marriage.
• The number six: creation
• 
• The number ten: the tetractys, the number of the universe."

Link

When I was very little

I had insight

into the nature

of the first ten numbers.

I can barely remember

but it was plain to me then:

1 the Ancient Grandmother

2 Her Husband Companion

3 & 4, Aunt and Uncle

5 & 6 Parents

7, 8, 9

obviously the kids.

The mystery of 10

is lost to me.

When I drove taxi

numbers were co-workers.

All had colorful nicknames

I still use today:

One

Duce

Triple

Fo

Fie, or (nickel)

then Sick;

Set,

Ate,

Nie,

and Ten.

Dispatcher say:

"Double Nickel!

Where you stay?"

"Fie Fie - 

you check me

Airport!"

In Hawaiian

a hole

is a puka,

so Zero

is Puka.

(Or Zero,

depending on the music

of the words)

When I started driving,

I was Puka Nie.

the taxi's number

became my name.

Even today,

the nicknames help me

to remember numbers:

20222 = "Du Zero Triple Duce"


See?

I'm SILLY!

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World's Biggest Saxophone

 " Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax 
was a Belgian musical instrument designer and musician 
who played the flute and clarinet, 
and is best known for having invented 
the saxophone. Born: November 6, 1814 "
Wikipedia

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Sky Laugh's in Light

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 " In all things of nature

 there is something 

of the marvelous." 

 Aristotle

" Every day 

that is born into the world

 comes like a burst of music 

and rings

 the whole day through, 

and you make of it

 a dance, a dirge, 

or a life march, 

as you will. "

Thomas Carlyle 

"  Let the rain kiss you. 

Let the rain 

beat upon your head 

with silver liquid 

drops.

 Let the rain

 sing you a lullaby. "

Langston Hughes 

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Sugar Plum Fairy Dance

The Way it was MEANT to be Heard:

" Some older references say

 that Tchaikovsky's first draft of 

the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" 

from the ballet The Nutcracker 

called for glass harmonica, "

Wikipedia

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Dear Preppers

A  L  O  H  A !

Dear Preppers:

“ Apocalypse

 does not point

 to a fiery Armageddon

 but to the fact

 that our ignorance

 and our complacency 

are coming to an end… 

. . .What is the kingdom?

 It lies in our realization

of the ubiquity of the 

divine presence . . .

. . . in our neighbors,

 in our enemies,

 in all of us. ” 

 Joseph Campbell, 

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Enemies Too !!??

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" I am he as you are he as you are me

And we are all together

See how they run

 like pigs from a gun

see how they fly

I'm crying

Sitting on a cornflake waiting for the van to come

Corporation teeshirt, stupid bloody Tuesday

Man you been a naughty boy. 

You let your face grow long

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen

I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob "

LENNON, JOHN WINSTON / MCCARTNEY, PAUL JAMES

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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A Moment in Unison

A  L  O  H  A !

 " The dream 

was always running 

ahead of me. 

To catch up,

 to live for a moment

 in unison with it,

 that was the miracle. "

Anais Nin

" If a man insisted 

always on being serious, 

and never allowed himself

 a bit of fun and relaxation,

 he would go mad 

or become unstable 

without knowing it."

Herodotus

" We ought to see

 far enough into a hypocrite

 to see even his 

sincerity. "

G.K. CHESTERTON

Heretics

" Despise not any man, 

and do not spurn anything;

 for there is no man 

who has not his hour, 

nor is there anything 

that has not its place. "

Ben Azai

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Well Met

A  L  O  H  A !

 " Good ideas

 alter the power balance. . . 

 that is why good ideas 

are always initially

 resisted. -

" Good ideas 

come with a heavy burden. 

Which is why 

so few people have them. 

So few people 

can handle it. "

Hugh Macleod

Yellow Fellows

" Be sincere 

as God knows 

a pretender. "

Kirk Cameron 

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