I have been participating in the events at the Pari Center for several years now, even helping with the planning and organization of their in-person Gentle Action conferences over the past two years. As much as I enjoy volunteering and helping out behind the scenes with the online and in-person events, I had long-hoped that someday I would be able to contribute to one of their journal issues. This January (2025) my dream became reality…
After exploring the worlds of philosophy and mathematics (through Classical Geometry), I chose to explore a completely new direction in communication — poetry. At least that is how it might appear to some looking in from the outside. Yet, in all the oddness, there is a definite progression to my books and publications. Rather than a departure, Poetic Perspectives represents the next stage in evolution of my writing…
A few months after publishing Science & Perception, I met up with my friend, Francesco, who works as a mathematical modeler for a large university in Stati Uniti. Somewhat curiously, Francesco asked whether I might be able to port the ideas in my first book to mathematics. And so the idea for this book was born. At the time, I had no idea that I would end up writing a book about Geometry, let alone breathing life back into an ancient form of Geometry that didn't involve numbers or calculations…
For me, it is amazing to realize that seven years have passed since I wrote my first book, Science & Perception. Even with all of its issues, I am still amazed by its existence and even more by the sheer number of ideas that it contains. Admittedly, I could (or should) have edited and cleaned out some of these ideas in the hopes of making this work more approachable. On the other side, however, is that this book is an accurate snapshot of how I saw things so many years ago, providing insight into just how much my perspective has shifted over the years…