“Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.” – Jean Guitton
J.K Rowling added a new number to the world with her Track 9 3/4 to Hogwarts. It's a number Harry Potter fans are not likely to forget. Union Station in St. Louis, Missouri, has a wall depicting the fictional track. I wonder how many people have tried walking through the wall. Just for fun, of course. -- Photo by Pat Bean
By the Numbers
Some numbers stick in our brains.
Your birth date for one. December 25 for another, which as a kid takes way too long to come around, but which comes around faster each year once you’re an adult.
Perhaps you believe, because your grandmother said it was so, that seven is lucky and 13 is not.
Telephone numbers used to be important things that clogged up my brain, but cell phones remember them for me these days. I barely can recall my own number.
But I haven’t forgotten the times table I learned in school, all the way up to 12 times 12. Kids these days use calculators instead of brain space to do the math. I guess it’s necessary because of how much more they have to learn.
The exact number of bird species I’ve seen is stored in my little gray cells, while others keep track, to the penny, of the amount they have in their bank accounts. I’m satisfied with a $10 difference in what I think I have and what the bank says I have.
I check the numbers almost daily, however, to make sure my accounts have not been hacked, and to decide if the bottom line number is large enough for another tank of gas for the road.
The most important number currently in my brain, however, is the number of days before my son comes home from Afghanistan. It’s finally down to about 30.
Whats your number?
“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.” – Plato
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Very important number, indeed.
I hadn’t really thought about numbers that way so I’m not sure what my number might be. Interesting thought.
I like it when numbers line up. When I look at the clock and it is 11:11 or 12:12 or 1:11, 2:22, etc. For some reason I seem to feel that all is right with the world as long as the numbers line up!! 🙂 And being a numerologist, numbers have different meanings for me. I also look at groups of numbers to see what single digit they add up to. I like 11 and 22, 7 is also a spiritual number, 3 a creative number, 6 the teacher or family number. Don’t like 16 cause it means unexpected catastrophe, and 13 to me is not so much unlucky as it means change (but I still wouldn’t buy a house with a “13” or “16” number). Different folks “vibrate” to different numbers so I don’t see any number as good or bad; they all have positive and negative aspects.
Nice picture to accompany this wonderful blog. May your son return home safe and fill your life with his love. Enjoy every day!
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Hi Pat,
30 days, what a good number. Today my number is 30…
Happiness and thoughts to you, your son, and your family!
Karen