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Hanging out at Midtown Coffee in Quincy, Ca. Rainy day. Reading, drawing, and this: Coffee: Ethiopian dark Grub: Cherry turnover

Found a can of this at C.A.N.: It’s delicious, smoky, and hot, man! I’ve been adding it to spice up my fixin’s and I’ve learned to moderate it.

I can’t very easily put to words my regard for this man. I’m still reading, discovering, exalting in, and being astonished by his work. I’ll let some of the words of others that have experienced his thoughts live here:

Grass high under apple trees, The bark of the trees rough and sexual, the grass growing heavy and uneven. We cannot bear disaster, like

We cannot know his legendary head wide eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside,

A curve that starts from a point and moves farther away as it revolves around the point is called a spiral.

Coffee: San Francisco Bay French Roast beans (Costco) Adulterated with: Kirkland Organic Virgin Coconut Oil Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter (unsalted)

A friend who had pancreatic cancer (and has since passed away) created a campaign to raise awareness and research funds called Purple Stride. I wasn’t able to make the walk so I let her know I was thinking of her …

Let’s use math to draw pictures, shall we? There is a wonderful world out there of representing patterns in nature, especially flowers, in mathematical terms. Ever gazed into a sunflower? I hope so. I’m learning and exploring as I go along here, so I’ll start with simple circle plots and move on from there. But where to start? How about Pythagorus?

Can there be beauty in math? I think so. I want to experiment with this idea for awhile. So, here goes a new series: The Beauty In Numbers. I’m going to off on a tangent (!) and study mathematics and art together.