Beautiful Patterns

You watched Sherlock, right? Of course you did. Everyone did. You'd waited 2 years to find out if you were right. You saw him jump, you saw the body, you saw all the people confirm his death but you also saw him at his own funeral and you have your own ideas about how but now you want to know.

I'm still chuckling about it this morning. The author didn't know! He wrote that it happened but that was it. He wrote it, stepped back and watched the internet make up the answers for him. Then he wrote some of the blog and twitter answers into yesterday's episode, making it so ambiguous that anyone who had a different answer could have been right too. You think he told you it was about a bungee rope, a mattress, a cyclist, a well placed ambulance station, an imposdibly young doe-eyed female doctor. But did he? He left you with the mad man and his post it notes saying, "You wouldn't have told me if that was the truth!"

I am in awe. We have so much to learn about life and art (probably the same thing in my opinion but don't tell the scientists) from Stephen Moffat. There aren't any right answers. All answers are possible or not possible. Our job and reason for being is just to make the links, however obscure. In fact, those people who can make links that others can't are getting even more out of life. We have brains that see patterns where none exist and we enjoy finding patterns no one has seen before.

Ink Blot Test

 Beautiful poetry can be made by stringing unusual words together.

Between the cushion of sky

On top of a paperchain of fields

Over a Christmas Cake of rain

Against a stripy sock of  forest

Next to a chess set of sunshine

Except the dog night.

This possibly isn't an example of beautiful poetry but I just wanted to try it.

http://anthonywilsonpoetry.com/2013/10/25/lifesaving-poems-underneath-the-mathematics-of-time/

Art becomes beautiful if it allows for many different interpretations.

Stravinsky pushed the boundaries of music byusing 12 tones,  making it atonal but there is still a pattern. Vi Hart explains this beautifully here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4niz8TfY794

So, I've finally come up with a New Year's Resolution to top last year's list. This year I am going to be beautiful. I'm making no plans, deciding on no pattern but instead I'm just going to create the life that happens, no matter how weird or unusual and I'm going to let others find the pattern in it.