sw00268aih-mysteries

7     As It Happens


 Two 03-15-07 events
 - - 
 Everything in life is the result of the connections
 of/between incomprehensible mysteries.  This
 came to me this morning when I was pondering
 the how-did-it-come-to-be matter of my poem
 "From a third-floor window" in my Postures 2007
 book of poems as I was gathering the info needed
 to provide a proper link to each poem therein.  A
 series of questions arose.  How was it I, a visting
 poet, was assigned to visit Whitehall High School
 and Arcadia High School in western Wisconsin?
 Why was I on the third floor of the Whitehall
 High School during the noon hour?  What moved
 me to enter the empty room I did?  Why did I
 walk over to look out a window in that room?
 Why was a portion of the schoolyard visible
 from that window?  How was it two girls were
 building a snowman there?  Why was it my
 turning away from their activity once they had
 the snowman built to their satisfaction a signal
 choice?  Why did I return to that window?
 Why was that decision also important?  Was
 it because of what I did and what I saw that
 I was inspired to write a poem about it?  One
 could go on and on with such questions.  As
 it happened, I did show that poem to the woman
 who was overseeing my visit, and two of its lines 
 were published in that high school's newspaper.
 Those two lines are:
                                 For my memory's sake
                                 I turn from it
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 Later on 3-15-07 I got a call from my eldest sister
 wanting to know if I had ever heard of a certain
 mathematician named Ivan Panin.  She told me he
 had discovered a multiples-of-7 thread in the Bible
 which he made public in 1942.  I had not heard of
 him but I did become intrigued.  I told her I would
 do a name search.  The search I did was: Ivan 
 Panin mathematician.  I decided to choose the lead
 result:
            www.wordworx.co.nz/panin.html
 I will not insist here that you should believe what
 is to be found there, but I do recommend reading
 what is there. 



Brian A. J. Salchert