It started as a joke.  Something clever that some folks might not understand.  A concept that . . . well judge for yourself.  I created this motivational poster and posted it on this blog:

If you don’t understand the message read the number in the top line as “one-zero” not as “ten.”  It has to do with the binary number system, where the digits are 1 and 0.

I knew my sons would immediately grasp and enjoy this play on number systems.  What I didn’t know was that yin and yang in the poster would kick off a family discussion.  Within a very short time, I received yin and yang in animated gif format.

I liked this animated play on duality.  Did it stop there?  Of course not.  Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.  Right?  Right!

So, to protect the guilty I won’t name names, it wasn’t long after that another animated gif arrived in my e-mail inbox.

This one is fascinating.  At least to me it is. 🙂  I’m thinking you can’t call it yin and yang when there are three elements at work in three dimensions.  What would you call it?  Maybe yin, yang and yong?

Could we add yeng?  Four dimensions.  I remember studying that briefly in on of my math classes at the university.  Okay, mathematically we could move to four, five and beyond dimensions.  The problem comes in illustrating that graphically.  Sorry Charlie. 🙁  That won’t work.

Back to where we started–motivational posters.  I had to do this one after the recent gathering of blogger buds here at Secondary Rds Hq.

Here’s hoping your week is off to a great start.  And always remember that a day without sunshine is like . . . night. 🙄