11/29/2018 w h mollohan -- copyright pending
Years ago, a construction project got put away in a closet
The contractor mused, “not even one specialist wants it”
The blueprints and designs were wrapped up in butcher meat-wrapping paper
It sat there for years -- in the closet -- as if it were a police, cold-case caper
On occasion, new recruits would stop by and inspect it
After a season, the neophyte-newbies would eventually reject it
They each, to a man and a woman, considered it to be …
an enigmatic, rubik’s cube, markedly crumpled
Their mental reach endeared, or rendered, them to become …
problematic, reducible, and not humbled
One day, the newest newbie, asked to join the discussion …
and to join the discovery
In his way – with his crude, “calculatorial”, mechanistic, old-school SLIDE-RULE …
computation – he displayed the problem’s recovery
The problem, the theorem – at first – seems as if it presents itself straight-forward
To solve ‘em, and any conundrum -- remember it usually represents itself almost backward
Einstein said, “problems are solved … within simplicity …
at a lower level of complexity” – when he was –
a bit old
And what he meant was that –
The problem
The person
The project
The people
Can, and will be, rectified when we let …
the work at hand – simply –
unfold
Years ago, a construction project got put away in a closet
The contractor mused, “not even one specialist wants it”
The blueprints and designs were wrapped up in butcher meat-wrapping paper
It sat there for years -- in the closet -- as if it were a police, cold-case caper
On occasion, new recruits would stop by and inspect it
After a season, the neophyte-newbies would eventually reject it
They each, to a man and a woman, considered it to be …
an enigmatic, rubik’s cube, markedly crumpled
Their mental reach endeared, or rendered, them to become …
problematic, reducible, and not humbled
One day, the newest newbie, asked to join the discussion …
and to join the discovery
In his way – with his crude, “calculatorial”, mechanistic, old-school SLIDE-RULE …
computation – he displayed the problem’s recovery
The problem, the theorem – at first – seems as if it presents itself straight-forward
To solve ‘em, and any conundrum -- remember it usually represents itself almost backward
Einstein said, “problems are solved … within simplicity …
at a lower level of complexity” – when he was –
a bit old
And what he meant was that –
The problem
The person
The project
The people
Can, and will be, rectified when we let …
the work at hand – simply –
unfold
