How many times a day do we say how many? How many times do we ask questions because we don't know something, and think someone else knows the answer? And do we know they know the answer, or are we just relying on them because we don't know where to find the answer for ourself? I'm afraid this is going to be an endless list of questions, without any real idea that it will ever come to a conclusion or a final answer.
When I got up this morning, knowing it was a "blog day", the thought came to me that there is a lot of written material in the world and we can't possibly read it all. So, why do I add to the compendium of words which go largely unread by the billions and billions of readers in the world and hope that I am going to say something unique, or earth shattering that will attract the attention of more than my faithful few readers? Everyone has the dream of writing the Great American Novel, and some have even used that title for their book, yet there is no answer to the debate of which book meets that high standard.
I wanted to know how many books have ever been written, and didn't find a current number beyond the estimate of some 129 million as of 2010. Have no books been published in the past six years? I wanted to know how many words are in the English language, but found a wide variety of answers, with the most widely held number to be 1,025,109.8. Eight-tenth of a word? That means one ten letter word only has eight letters. That's absolute(ly) ridiculo(us)!!!!!
There's not much point in going on with this blog. I don't know how many more unanswerable questions I can come up with. And besides, it's time to go stucco or rake leaves or work at something that will provoke more questions than answers. Like how many eighty pound bags of Portland cement plaster mix did we apply to the walls of our Marketplace project this summer or how many leaves will I be raking here at the Passion Play and when we arrive at Source of Light in a few weeks. Just keep at the task, run the race, do the best we can, one day at a time......how many adages, saws, aphorisms, cliches, maxims are there, anyway............?
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