Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Counting on Christmas . . .

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      One of my favorite memories of Christmas when I was a child involves recitation -- with family or classmates -- of this holiday rhyme,...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Christmas is coming . . .

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     This morning I did a blog search to see which of my previous posts included the word "Christmas" -- and this link leads to th...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Counting toward Christmas . . .

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     Like my grandchildren, I am counting the days until Christmas -- enjoying holiday lights that break the winter darkness and looking for...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Post-Christmas reflections from W. H. Auden

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     A favorite writer whose works I enjoy again and again is English poet Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973). Here is a mathy excerpt from a ver...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Numbers for Christmas . . .

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* o n t o p g i v e l i g h t f r e e l y f o r e v e r a b u n d a n t b r i l l i a n t e v e r y w h e r e LOVE MATH! Christmas ...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

And now welcome Christmas . . .

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Let us sing . . . (a version of)  The Twelve Days of Christmas           The twelfth day of Christmas.           My true love gave to ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Let us not forget . . .

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At this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, many are without shelter -- and are cold.  Let us think of them  -- as Cecil Day-Lewis (190...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

A thousand Christmas trees

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My email poem-a-day today from www.poets.org is " Christmas Trees " by Robert Frost (1874-1963) ; this 1916 poem includes some c...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

The gift of a poem

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     In this holiday season of giving, sometimes the gifts are poems -- and sometimes mathy poems.  A few days ago, "Zero" by Robe...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Ah, you are a mathematician

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Thanks to Arturo Sangalli of the Writer's Union of Canada -- and fellow-participant in a recent Banff creativity conference --  who re...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

13 lads of Christmas

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     In addition to waterfalls and geysers and the Aurora, Iceland has outstanding museums.  On the morning of December 10, I visited the Na...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Star, shine bright!

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* on top give light freely forever abundant brilliant everywhere Be our light! For more visual poetry of Christmas, enjoy a visit t...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Skating (with math) on Christmas

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     Found at poets.org , a lovely poem of ice skating and mathematics and Christmas by Cynthia Zarin; the title is "Skating in Harlem,...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Counting on Christmas

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