i owe my love of math to my sweet momma and two amazing math teachers in junior high and high school (woody and bill).
so to look up in the sky and see ‘pi’ made me laugh aloud. of course i sent a photo to both of my kiddos with the caption “so is this what they mean by pi in the sky?” – to which neither responded a peep. oh well. i thought it was pretty funny – in a corny kind of way.
it did, however, make me think of all things pi-in-the-sky, er…pie-in-the-sky.
pi (3.14…) is a constant. it never changes. it is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. it is used in many equations and – from the time you learn it – is a number you just never forget.
yeah, kind of like the constitution or the declaration of independence. once you learn about them, you never forget.
well, most people never forget.
well, some people never forget.
anyway, here we are – in the middle of a constitutional crisis – with the declaration of independence mouth-open-silently-screaming relevancies at us – and my pie-in-the-sky is that it will all just stop – with a happy hallmark ending where all rifts fade and all fighting ceases and people just love one another and live in peace and harmony and respectful, compassionate democracy for the rest of all time.
pretty pie-in-the-sky-ish, eh?
a dear old friend sent me a youtube video of the song beautiful city (from godspell):
“out of the ruins and rubble/out of the smoke/out of our night of struggle/can we see a ray of hope?/one pale thin ray reaching for the day… we can build a beautiful city/yes, we can/we can build a beautiful city/not a city of angels/but we can build a city of men/we may not reach the ending/but we can start/slowly but truly mending/brick by brick/heart by heart/now, maybe now/we start learning how/…when your trust is all but shattered/when your faith is all but killed/you can give up bitter and battered/or you can slowly start to build!…”(stephen schwartz)
i am hoping against hope that this is not pie-in-the-sky. that a chance remains for this country to rebuild – to stop this madness – to stop the evil and cruel extremism that is taking over – to stop authoritarianism – to stop the ruining of this democracy.
pi in the sky above me, i couldn’t resist taking a photograph.
i couldn’t resist sending it as my picture-of-the-day.
and i couldn’t resist hoping – at least for a little bit – for some pie-in-the-sky.
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