This blog is too narrow

Ah November. That time of year when NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) comes around and I set out to post every day for the entire month. It’s also the time of year when I take a look at all the drafts I’ve started, all the ideas I’ve written down to be turned in to drafts (like this one from 2011), and realize I have a lot of unfinished business with this blog. Pierre de Fermat could certainly be the patron saint of the unfinished drafts on this blog.

Pierre de Fermat was a mathematician and in 1637 he was perusing an old math book and jotted the following down in the margin:

It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain.

And that was all he ever wrote down on the subject. The margin is too narrow. And that statement bugged mathematicians for over 400 years.

This blog seems to be too narrow at times given how many truly marvelous ideas I’ve come up with that will never be published.

But I hope my life is never too narrow for all the truly marvelous things I want and need to do. My life and heart have seemed to expand to fit whatever they have needed to do. And that is truly marvelous.