13 Fractured Facts
1. THIS is not me.
2. Said to Joe on Saturday: I can’t wait to not watch the Super Bowl.
3. Michael 19 … Steven 21 … John 33 … How ironic that their deaths sound like bible verses … The hearses parked in the halls of the high school recruiting… From “For Eli,” a poem by slam poet/activist Andrea Gibson who will be reading at Hollins University Theater in Roanoke February 22 at 8 p.m. Hear her perform it HERE.
4. And THIS is really worth the watch, women through the ages morphing into each other.
5. What a strange world we live in. The first of February was Imbolc, Candlemas, St. Brigit’s Day, the Super Bowl and Groundhog Day. That’s almost as weird as having Martin Luther King Day shared with Confederate Generals, Jackson and Lee Day, which they used to do here in Virginia until recently.
6. I have radar for the # 13. I took the above photo from the TV while watching The Ellen Show last week. At the time Ellen was setting up some sort of audience participation game in honor of Super Bowl. 
7. Fractals help me have faith in an afterlife. It’s a sacred geometry that just keeps on going. See HERE and don’t forget to watch long enough (half a minute) to see it in color.
8. A fractal is any pattern that reveals greater complexity as it is enlarged, showing the reality of 'worlds within worlds.’ The word was coined by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975. Although the fractals he created were derived from mathematics, he emphasized the use of fractals as realistic and useful models of many "rough" phenomena in the real world. Natural fractals include the shapes of mountains, coastlines and river basins; the structures of plants, blood vessels and lungs; the clustering of galaxies; and Brownian motion. Fractals are found in human pursuits, such as music, painting, architecture, and stock market prices. ~ From the wikipedia.
9. Snowflakes are like fractals too. "They are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.” ~ Unknown.
10. Even more miraculous and mysterious than fractals and snowflakes is the work of Japanese scientist Dr. Emoto who wrote the book The Hidden Message in Water, which describes how water molecules transform into beautiful crystallized shapes with loving thoughts and becomes ugly with hateful ones, as viewed under a microscope. Watch HERE.
11. The human body is 70% water. Imagine how our thoughts affect each other.
12. #3 in my December 4th Thirteen Thursday asks “If you had your own talk show, would you dress more like Oprah or Ellen?”
13. Thirteen Thursday is a fractal of sort, a meme (from the Greek to mimic) that keeps on going. See how it spreads out HERE.
Comments
NEAT!
Happy TT.
Posted by: Journeywoman | February 5, 2009 12:12 AM
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Posted by: Three on Thursday | February 5, 2009 12:18 AM
Clever list. I really enjoyed it. Happy T13!
Posted by: Adelle Laudan | February 5, 2009 1:19 AM
It's all about phi, baby! Woot!
Up with 13 Thorne-Quirks
Happy TT!
Posted by: Thorne | February 5, 2009 2:51 AM
I watched "What the Bleep do we know" and I thought it was really interesting, the thing about water reacting to our positive and negative thoughts really made an impression on me too!
Posted by: Betty | February 5, 2009 7:27 AM
I liked #4 a whole lot, but I wish it was more a time thing. It went through too many different periods, back and fourth, but don't get me wrong VERY interesting.
Now #7 was the best and it brought back memories of the time we walked the beach and saw the Florescence in the water. It was so unreal and beautiful.
#9 is so true, but I haven't seen a real detailed snowflake in a long time. I think the last one I saw was when I was a child.
Very visual TT. xoxo
Posted by: Sherry | February 5, 2009 7:46 AM
Thanks to #s 4 & 7 I now feel like I'm tripping! Gah!
So it's NOT my imagination that others moods effect me...nice to know!
Posted by: Janet | February 5, 2009 8:04 AM
I am 70 % out of water ? Why don't I bubble when I walk ?
Posted by: Gattina | February 5, 2009 9:15 AM
#4...very nice!
Happy TT!
Posted by: kandyblossom | February 5, 2009 9:37 AM
I like how your list itself morphed from one subject to another, yet had a strange continuity
Posted by: Kristen | February 5, 2009 10:12 AM
Really unique list.... happy TT
Posted by: Karen | February 5, 2009 10:21 AM
Super bowl? Is that now?
Posted by: Alice Audrey | February 5, 2009 10:27 AM
I too can be counted as one who did not watch the Super Bowl.. and even here in Canada, it is watched by nearly everyone.
And I too marvel at the snowflake.
Posted by: Col | February 5, 2009 10:32 AM
Very clever list. I enjoyed reading that!
Happy TT :)
Posted by: Jackie | February 5, 2009 11:35 AM
I read somewhere that human's are the highest form of water. Weird to think of, eh? I've had great luck at Create Space - which is print on demand. I'm glad, as always, to see your firey spirit out there working!
Posted by: On a limb with Claudia | February 5, 2009 11:48 AM
Another fan of the Fractal! I used to keep myself amused for hours messing about with a Fractal generator! What can I say except this is an interesting list... but I dodged the Superbowl like a few folks here... I admit... must turn in my "Man" badge for such a thing, I'd assume! :)
Posted by: Matthew James Didier | February 5, 2009 12:46 PM
An interesting and eclectic list! Note, though, that the Superbowl was Feb 1, Imbolc/Candlemas/Groundhog Day was Feb 2.
Posted by: Heather | February 5, 2009 1:03 PM
I know that, which is why I used "the first of February" instead of the specific dates 1st and 2nd. To me they're all rolled into one, the cross quarter, an ancient tradition of seasonal celebrations, in this case half way through winter.
Posted by: colleen | February 5, 2009 1:17 PM
Fractals really do create a sense of awe for me. I had never thought of them in the sense you have, but I definitely grasp what you're saying - and love the concept!
Posted by: Emily | February 5, 2009 2:13 PM
Very interesting TT, Colleen!
Posted by: CountryDew | February 5, 2009 4:21 PM
Thanks, Colleen for that amazing link to the Saatchi Gallery. That was fascinating, incredible and astounding! What a lot of work must have gone into that. Amazing!
Kat
Posted by: Poetikat | February 5, 2009 5:37 PM
Very interesting list! Thanks for visiting mine.
Posted by: Tink | February 5, 2009 6:30 PM
Very interesting. I always thought fractals were something to do with Chaos Theory, which I have never been able t understand.
Posted by: Nicholas | February 5, 2009 7:24 PM
This winter in New England is living proof of #9. Even though I can't stand to shovel it I always have liked that quote.
We watched the Superbowl outside in mounds of fallen snowflakes with the game projected on our neighbor's shed while everyone's kids skated around on the backyard rink underneath a disco ball alternating between playing hockey and eating cake. So Feb. 1st was a big success.
Posted by: Bumbles | February 5, 2009 9:19 PM
That sounds fantastic!
Posted by: colleen | February 5, 2009 10:25 PM
Fractals fascinate me and have for a while, and now I want to know mroe about the water molecules!! Thanks for linking to that, Colleen.
Posted by: kenju | February 6, 2009 9:52 AM
I would dress more like Whoopie...lol!
Marlee Maylin was the perfect person for that little Video on water....And I LOVED the Morphing Women....WOW! That is Brilliant in every way....
Another Very Very RICH TT, my dear Colleen....!
Posted by: OldOldLady Of The Hills | February 6, 2009 7:59 PM