02 May 11

Today I'm honoring the birthday last week (April 28) of my nephew David Huizenga, currently the pastor of Resurrection Community Church in Roslyn, Pennsylvania. He has taught high school mathematics and is a fan of the art of M. C. Escher, so I'm wearing my Flying Fish tie. I'm standing in a stairwell reminiscent of some of Escher's labyrinthine fantasies. But this stairwell is disappointingly ordinary, permitting ascent/descent only in a single gravitational orientation. (At least that's the only orientation I've been able to use so far.)