Hello and welcome to my new page The Golden Mean! For those of you that
are new to my blogging, my name is Sharayah and I’ve come here from monstersoffgrid.blogspot.com.
For those of who that have been following my travels and rants, I’m glad you
followed me over!
I’m here now because of a change in
life. My little man was born, Zakai, and we’ve moved back up to Michigan to be
closer with our families. The path we thought we were going to stay on kind of
went topsy-turvy on us with the new addition. Our goals are still mostly the
same; we (Mike my boyfriend, Zakai our son, and Monster our dog child) just
have a different way of getting there. Alas, we may also not be able to go to
the school for earth ships in Taos, New Mexico, but hey, I tell you what – YouTube
is a freakin’ amazing tool. I’ve learned the ins and outs of my Chevy Venture
and am now fully confidant in doing everything up to the transmission; thanks
to YouTube and all of the amazing mechanics out there that took there time to
film. Point being – We’ve found enough YouTube’s by people like us that have
already got their dream home in the ground. Also, other people that have
already started their organics business and other venturous people that have
tickled our fancies and we’ve started following.
Back to the reason why I moved my
blog over; the old domain was just that – old. Monsters Off Grid isn’t us anymore, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t
a big part of helping us shape into the family we are today. We decided
sometime ago that there is just so much more to our lives than just heading off
grid even though it’s still part of our plan. Monster is still our family
mascot though ;)
As for The Golden Mean – What do you know about it if anything? I’m
assuming like me, a lot of you didn’t pay much attention in math class in high
school (BTW I just finished my first semester back in college and aced my math
class with an A, who’d of thought possible!!). The golden mean can be other
wise known as the golden ratio, golden section, divine proportion, divine
section, golden cut, the golden number, and sometimes it’s referred to as the Fibonacci
Sequence even though it’s not exact but asymptotic in nature to it.
Phew! Thee golden number in question would be 1.61803398875. 1
This was an ancient mathematicians
best friend of sorts. Yet, not only did those in the math profession find the
number so intriguing, but “biologists,
artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, and even mystics
have pondered and debated the basis of its ubiquity and appeal”1. The Golden Mean has been and is still used in
aesthetics, architecture, painting (Leo Da Vinci, Dali), music, and you see it
all through out nature too! In a way this is a law that rules the cosmos. It’s
adapt in nature to all things, and by understanding it’s essence just look what
man kind had made; many great thing, some not so.
Baaaacccckkk to my point of the
blog title again…
The Golden Mean is law. It’s nature
and natural. It’s what everything should be - as one. This is why it has
resonated with me so much. Our goals in sustainability, sustenance, and
spirituality I feel all vibrate closely with the true essence and meaning of
the golden law. This is why we are here now on the path we are on, and I feel
as if it’s going to be a beautiful one.
If you’d like to learn more about
the Golden Mean, you can visit the link I’ve attached with this blog. I learned
a lot more from it than I knew before and will continue to learn. Having an
engineer boyfriend’s mentality around doomed me to like numbers some way, it
just so happens that this correlates with my artsy side as well!
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