5/5/55
On 5/5/55 I was 21 months old with a full diaper and no access to a typewriter. On 6/6/66 I was 13 years old with little interest in a typewriter or writing, but on 7/7/77 I wrote an article for a giveaway supermarket newspaper about that date being written with the same number. After that it was another ten years, 8/8/88 before it happened again. And then 9/9/99 came along. In 2000 you couldn’t write 0/0/00, because it meant nothing.
We have to wait ‘til 10/10/10 and 11/11/11 and 12/12/12 before we can do this again, I think.
And then we’ll have to wait ‘til 2/2/22, I think. I’ve never been much of a number scholar. I just think about them sometimes. Here are some other numbers I think about that are very troubling and sad.
3,584 = U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq.
26,350= U.S. Military Wounded in Iraq.
66,807 = Minimum Iraqi Civilian Deaths.
655,000 = Excess Iraqi Civilian Deaths.
3,000 = approximate number of Americans killed on 9/11.
30 months = the time Scooter Libby will not have to serve in jail.
Pardon me.
2 comments:
This is your best one yet, Frank.
It hits the mark and comes as a surprise. Well done!
Outdoor showers in Hawaii facing the Pacific are equally great, especially when you've just come up from your private beach....a bit of paradise.
Keep that back straight in your forward bend. Suck the belly button up toward the spine. Reach out through the crown of your head and your tail bone, trying to elongate your spine. Ah a delicious stretch, under that refreshing water.
MA
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