I am not technically an Odhner. By which I mean, my genetics do not include the mathematical prowess that comes with that heritage. I married into the name, but a surge in mental power did not arrive by association. 

 

My children are brainy, each in their own way. Lukas recently created a diagram that his EVP labeled as the "Mona Lisa of Broadcast." I have absolutely no idea what it says, though it is incredibly fun to enjoy that he knows. 

 

John went to visit our daughter, the one who earned high praise from the Dean of the Business School at Yale. They spent long hours into the night discussing things like the Parallel Postulate. According to the Cliff Notes John gave me, this is a concept in geometry that mathematicians tried for thousands of years to prove. In the end they agreed that you simply, or not so simply, have to accept it as an assumption. It has to do with whether or not two lines can pierce a point and still sail alongside another line into the next millennium without ever crashing. This is of course all hypothetical. Not like the lines in my quilts that I take great pains to make parallel. 

 

Even Ben has his intellectual surges. The other day he ran into a minister and remembered that he had helped him open a bag of cereal in church. On November 26, 2017. He also creates Venn Diagrams to sort categories of things like elephants and movie characters. 

 

Smarts can help you accrue the answers you are looking for. Yet there is also wiggle room for those assumptions. I may not have proof that John has my best interests in mind even if he forgets to do what I asked. But I can assume. Even though we sometimes crash into each other.