Some of you read Magical Math on Medium when I first began (consciously) playing with the idea that one + one has the potential to be greater (or less) than two.
A dorm-mate my freshman year in college referred to anyone appearing to be 50-ish as “Old Heads.” As I am that now I’ll say that I have a very peculiar jukebox in my head. Sometimes only a line or two, or even just a few words.
Just the same, “A whole lotta songs.” Apologies to Led Zeppelin. Your wonderful comments on 1+1 dredged up a number from my jukebox. “Helplessly Hoping,” by Crosby, Stills, and Nash. It goes, “They are one person, they are two alone, they are three together, they are for-or each other.” A clever turn of a phrase, using Magical Math. My bout with Differential Equations in college taught me that for some dummies, like I was and still can be, Math isn’t always magical!
Nevertheless I managed to stumble upon you in my former Medium days and now here on Born Free Newsletter. That must take some kind of math?
Thank you for sharing your appreciation Karen! The wind was at my back this morning. 😊
I’ve already done a little investigation and on our local library’s computer system the only book I found with ‘magical math’ in the title is about mathematics with numbers. 🎉
That said… Still waiting on an idea to take shape. I recently ordered and received an illustrated book called Dream. I consider it a hybrid… meaning it can be as meaningful to an adult as it is to a child. Noodling how I might pull off something that had a similar feel.
A dorm-mate my freshman year in college referred to anyone appearing to be 50-ish as “Old Heads.” As I am that now I’ll say that I have a very peculiar jukebox in my head. Sometimes only a line or two, or even just a few words.
Just the same, “A whole lotta songs.” Apologies to Led Zeppelin. Your wonderful comments on 1+1 dredged up a number from my jukebox. “Helplessly Hoping,” by Crosby, Stills, and Nash. It goes, “They are one person, they are two alone, they are three together, they are for-or each other.” A clever turn of a phrase, using Magical Math. My bout with Differential Equations in college taught me that for some dummies, like I was and still can be, Math isn’t always magical!
Nevertheless I managed to stumble upon you in my former Medium days and now here on Born Free Newsletter. That must take some kind of math?
A well-stitched tale!
Hmmm… Love that line! I’d never associated it with magical math… very creative and connective my commenting friend!
I’m learning to stitch from the best!
Gail, you brought this piece together so well--magical math in many contexts. Perhaps that will be the title of your next book?
Thank you for sharing your appreciation Karen! The wind was at my back this morning. 😊
I’ve already done a little investigation and on our local library’s computer system the only book I found with ‘magical math’ in the title is about mathematics with numbers. 🎉
That said… Still waiting on an idea to take shape. I recently ordered and received an illustrated book called Dream. I consider it a hybrid… meaning it can be as meaningful to an adult as it is to a child. Noodling how I might pull off something that had a similar feel.