Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics

    In today's news I learned of the recent death of award-winning author Wendell Berry (1934–2026). In more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, Berry explored the notion of living a principled life in accordance with the natural world. His ma...

    Exploring Facebook recenty I came across Motive for Metaphor -- a site with this introduction:

Motive for Metaphor offers poetical expressions for sharing & is inspired by a Wallace Stevens poem of the same name (

    For me, writing is part of my thinking process -- my fingers join my brain in formulating thoughts. And, if the current day is not one that inspires my creativity, then reading the creative work of others helps me to restore.  Earlier this month (on August 8) I posted a sample from this website of Claire Jensen: 

 An interesting, somewhat poetic quote:

   Recently I found -- and have been musing over -- this poetic quote by poet Carl Sandburg (1878-1967):

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky --...