There's something very special about patterns. Whether it's math homework, architecture, or voting results, there is an undeniable logic, once you perceive it, governing all that we see.
Often when we look at any sort of data, our first impression is that it is contradictory.Indeed, it is. But upon closer analysis, we can begin to make some sense of these cross-stitchings that confront us. An image begins to form in our minds, perhaps a projection based on our inner senses, or maybe a line in the sand for which we can marshal enough rational evidence to make our case credible.
Thus is the life of an artist. Thus is the life of a journalist. Thus is the life of an analyst, a venture capitalist, a politician or just an ordinary woman in New York feeling as if she is living her life as if she were an actor in "Sex and the City."
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It all depends on the patterns. Such is math and such is life. At least that's the conclusion I drew tonight from helping my 12-year-old with his math homework. As we worked together, it wasn't his quickness at finding the answers that impressed me so much as his sense of what is behind those correct answers.
The patterns.
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