Fractals fascinate me; sometimes smoky wisps of translucence winding aimlessly through space, sometimes metallic and futuristic, hard-edged, powerful. Often vibrant and whimsical, they can look random – but the core is always mathematics. 
So, I think I’m fractal.No, really –
Maybe what looks like an arbitrary and haphazard wander through life is really based on a complicated geometry: not merely chaos, but chaos theory!
Wouldn’t that be cool?
I even like the word. “Fractal” sounds like an idea shattering boundries. The science behind fractals reveals that once the barriers (real numbers) are escaped, new patterns emerge – intricate and infinite – but not random. And I like that.
Because I’m a square peg. Or at least that’s what I thought when I didn’t fit into the round holes. The truth is I just don’t like holes. What do you do once you get in? So here I am, a middle aged, out-of-the-box kinda girl, blogging about…well, life.
Life fascinates me; sometimes a gossamer fabric of delightful events meandering aimlessly through time, sometimes cruel and unrelenting, incongruous, absurd. What are the underlying mathematics – what fractal truth sculpts life’s events into the designs we see?
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