Numbers ..

For some reason, numbers please me. Not in any mathematical way, but for the same reason I like words. They have shape and sound and substance that have an ability to invoke certain feelings. For instance, tomorrow is 03/05/09 but I do wish it were 03/05/07 because it appeals to my numerical sense of orderliness. Yesterday would have been perfect .. absolutely if it were 03/03/03. But it was not. And in 2008 it would have been pleasant because it would have been at least very round. I was not unhappy with 03/03/09. But it could have been better.

Apparently Pope Gregory VIII (I think) invented the calendar we use today. Well, that is unless you have one of those Ansel Adams type things and then I think he did the photography and the Pope did the number part. In any case, if the world were formed to Hayley’s liking, we could number each day, month, year in any way we pleased and then name the days so we would remember them. For instance, yesterday would have been 03/03/03 in numbers and I would have named it “I wore my green pants and bought new socks day”. That way, I would remember what happened that day. The numbers begin to run together anyway and no one really remembers what happened on any given date (except for birthdays and anniversaries and those could have built in names).

Today is 03/04/05 .. The Day I Wrote the Calendar Blog