Pythagorus Said...

While working on my book this afternoon - I paused for a moment to look out the window.  There were two boxelder bugs literally stuck together running around the window and making their way as best they could.  Why were they stuck together? - Well, me thinks they "hooked up" to make more boxelder bugs but their association was now lengthier than either had planned.


There was a bigger bug (BB), and a smaller bug (SB).  BB was basically dragging SB around.  As I looked closer - I watched SB twisting and turning, doing it's best to detach from BB.  SB would move its head down as if to talk to BB and say "let me go", and "I'm so done being dragged around by you".  It was very evident (as it now appears in addition to German,  it seems I speak Boxelder) that SB had had enough, and wanted to move on to the next thing. 


This little dance went on for some time...SB kept twisting around and around and BB would just take off in another direction.  Finally - SB detached and quickly scurried off on a different path.  BB just sat there for a while, and finally flew away - notably in the opposite direction.


So after all the entomology talk, what does an ancient Greek mathemetician (who had a nice theorem by the by) have to do with boxelder bugs, windows or finally detaching from something one has outgrown?


Pythagorus said, "Eleven is the number of a cycle of new beginnings."


Carpe Diem, and so it is...