Last week (July 9) was the birthday of my mother -- and, although her body lies in a grave, her spirit continues to dance (and to both inform and confuse me). Recently published in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (January 2019 issue) this poem by Jenny Patton -- a creative writing teacher at Ohio State University and a wellness coach -- has been provoking my memories.
Geometry of Night by Jenny Patton
In three-dimensional Euclidean space,
lines in a plane that do not meet are parallel.
My beautiful aunt loved to sleep, blogs
my insomniac cousin about my mother
who went to her parallel life every night.
Those studying Playfair’s axiom note the
constant distance between parallel lines.
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Things to Count On
Tomorrow is my mother's birthday. Born in 1912, she has been gone for several years now -- and tomorrow my sons and I will travel to Indiana, Pennsylvania to visit her grave and the farmhouse where I grew up. In honor of my mother, I post this poem (also posted on October 1, 2010) that enumerates ways that numbers were vital in my early life.
Things to Count On by JoAnne Growney
Things to Count On by JoAnne Growney
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