Hi, Ken, Glad to hear from you.
Great post) It reminded me of one of my favourite books of Ray Bradbury - "Dandelion Wine", where one of two brothers, Tom, always did some statistics. There's little extract: there's always something new in something old.
“I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees
in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, right? So, then, what makes
night? I’ll tell you: shadows crawling out from under five billion trees! Think of it!
Shadows running around in the air, muddying the waters you might say. If only we could
figure a way to keep those dam five billion shadows under those trees, we could stay up
half the night, Doug, because there’d be no night! There you are; something old,
something new.”
“I’m alive.”
“Heck, that’s old!”
“Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a
sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really"