xxiv

ps
number 24:
~ is a highly composite number, having more divisors than any smaller number.
~ is the atomic number of chromium.
~ is the number of hours in a day.
~ is the number of carats representing 100% pure gold.
~ is the number of frames per second at which motion picture film is usually projected.
~ is the alias used by patrick star in the animated tv series spongebob squarepants when attending driving school.
~ four and twenty is the number of blackbirds baked in a pie in the traditional english nursery rhyme sing a song of sixpence.

through my ears i hear:

twenty

ps number 20
~ 20 is a tetrahedral number.
~ the atomic number of calcium.
~ the third magic number in physics.
~ the number 20 is used as an index in measuring visual acuity.
~ there are 20 baby teeth in the deciduous dentition.
~ twenty {lynyrd skynyrd album}, a 1997 album by lynyrd skynyrd.
~ cb slang for "a place", being short for "10–20", used in reference to a person or object's location.
~ the designation of interstate 20, a freeway that runs from texas to south carolina.
~ the number 20 is used 117 times in the bible.

through my ears i hear:

nineteen

ps
number nineteen:
~ a prime number.
~ is the atomic number of potassium.
~ some organs use the 19th harmonic to approximate a minor third.
~ the final year a person is a teenager.
~ renault 19, a car that was produced by french automobile manufacturer renault.
~ 19th hole, in miniature golf it is an extra hole on which the winner earns an instant prize.
~ the nineteenth president of the united states was rutherford b. hayes.
~ the nineteenth state to enter the union of the united states was indiana.
~ the flower of life symbol consists of 19 interlocking circles.
~ the ancients called this the ‘number of surrender’ for your life needs to link up with the universal life.


have yourself a listen:

love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
and therefore is winged cupid painted blind.
~william shakespeare, mid-summer night's dream, 1595

happy father's day

“it is a wise father that knows his own child.” ~ william shakespeare
ps i love my father for all that he has done for me. wish i could be with him today.