As I was waking up this morning, I was thinking about what shape the next stanza in my series would take. It is to be about the Agony in the Garden, but beyond that I didn't have any very clear concept of it. (The basic framework and precise poetical form of the stanza series was given to me in a "download" during prayer, but it is left to me to flesh out those bones.) In a hypnopompic reverie, I thought of the Garden as a symbol of Paradise (my vivid mental image of the Garden is one of Eden-like beauty), but Jesus' experience there was marked by intense suffering rather than idyllic happiness. I tried out a tentative couplet on that theme but rejected it because it rhymed
pain with
again, an unacceptable kludge.
When I went out in the morning, I almost immediately encountered this T-shirt, on the back of the motorcyclist in front of me on the road:
I noted that 22/7 is an approximation of pi, with pain the circumference and paradise the diameter, but I think that's just noise, or at least I have not yet found in it any coherent symbolic meaning.
The stanza remains unwritten. I had hoped to get as far as the Crucifixion today, Good Friday, and do the Resurrection on Easter Sunday, but I don't think that's going to work out. Well, inspiration is not exactly known for conforming to liturgical calendars.
2 comments:
July 22 is a date that is of significance to both of us for different reasons. As an American, I write that in numerical form as 7/22, but most of the rest of the world would typically write that as 22/7.
I've also noted in the past that Robert Browning assigned July 22 to the Pied Piper. "Pied" has given us some interesting word games and symbols, including the link to the symbol of Pi. So it was interesting to read your point that dividing the date as written in that format gives us the first 3 numbers and common abbreviation of Pi - 3.14.
Of the 366 total day-month combinations, July 22 is the only one that yields Pi.
WG recently linked to this old post of mine, which also mentions the July 22 pi connection.
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2022/07/lots-of-owls-that-fit-just-perfectly.html
The significance of 7/22 in that post is that it was the release date of the movie Nope.
July 22 as an alternative Pi Day is mentioned again here:
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2022/07/owls-aliens-sesame-street-muppets-and.html
If we want to approximate pi a little more precisely, we need a two+day period, 3/14-15, which includes my own birthday. (22/7 is Bill's birthday, for those who may not know.)
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