With the advancement of life, recently hitting 48 years old and inevitably thinking about mortality more and more these days, books like this on I am currently reading are becoming highly engrossing to me.
How the fractal nature of grief is both the key to understanding it and the doorway to moving through it is what mathematician Michael Frame explores in his unusual book "Geometry Of Grief: Reflections On Mathematics, Loss, And Life".
After twenty years of working with the visionary father of fractals and another twenty years of teaching fractal geometry at Yale, Frame draws on a lifetime of loss and a lifetime of delicate attention to the details of aliveness we call beauty to interleave memoir and mathematics in an uncommon tapestry of thought, twining Borges and quantum mechanics, biology and Islamic art, music and multiverse theory.
Because every sound theorem rests upon precise formulation, Frame offers a basic definition:
"Grief is a response to an irreversible loss… To generate grief rather than sadness, the thing lost must carry great emotional weight, and it must pull back the veil that covers a transcendent aspect of the world. Breathe out to push the fog away from a brilliant pinpoint of light."
I'm looking forward to finishing this book and will possibly post again about it down the road.
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