The Perfect 10

Number 21

 

In a perfect world everything is perfect. Everyone is happy. Life offers geniune kindness and plenty to eat. Nobody suffers or dies, children grow up with only good memories of their families. Everyone has what they need. There isn't any waste. And if I wanted long legs and a little nose I would have it. But in a perfect world it wouldn't matter because nobody would see imperfections, nor judge one another. Futhermore, we would not judge ourselves, we would be perfect.

 

 

NUMBER THREE

 

 

While in Paris, I told French Husband I was going to take photos of numbers. He quickly jumped in calculating, "Send me the photos and I will put them in order for you. I know how you are with numbers."

"Oh, that's nice, but I don't want them in order."

"Why not?"

"Because it isn't how I see it."

 

Number 6 and 4

 

We looked at each other knowingly.

We don't think alike and yet we do.

When it comes to facts and figures ask him, when it comes to maps and floor plans ask me. When it comes to being on time forget it, because I have to wait for him. When it comes to driving ask him unless you like the excitement of driving with someone who falls asleep at the wheel. When it comes to caring for a friend, or giving of ourselves, or walking the extra mile to help someone, we are hand in hand.

In a perfect world we are not perfect, but we are good for one another.

 

 

Number 57

Number 8

Number 9

Number 55

 

The above photos are in order.

French Husband knows that I am not kidding.

One through ten.

He knows I am not kidding but he cannot see my logic,

"Where is the ten?" He asked.

I answered, "Fifty five, is five plus five, which equals ten." 

We so don't see it the same way. Or I should say I see it both ways.

 

 

Number sixteen

 

"Serendipity means a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it… 

Various thinkers discuss the role that luck can play in science. One aspect of Walpole's original definition of serendipity, often missed in modern discussions of the word, is the need for an individual to be "sagacious" enough to link together apparently innocuous facts in order to come to a valuable conclusion. Indeed, the scientific method, and the scientists themselves, can be prepared in many other ways to harness luck and make discoveries."

 Via Wikipedia

I am a scientist?

 

 

Number 22

 

Do you see the reflection of my shoes between the number twenty-two?

Two shoes.

French Husband asked if that should be four shoes? He thinks he is so funny. I had to tell him it was the number two, then in the middle of the twos, are my two shoes, then the number two again. A balance of sort.

He was confused. Or am I confusing? It doesn't matter. I was having fun taking photos of numbers.

 

 

Number 26

 

Number 126.

As simply as that.

Posted here for no other reason, excepted I liked the curls on the plaque. 

 

 

Paris Old Sign

 

No number.

The old painted iron sign next to the red iron gate was calling for a photo. 

Anyway, we were driving down a boulevard and I saw the old painted iron sign.

Fortunately, French Husband stops on call, as I leaned out the window and took the picture.

 

 

Parisian Clock Face

 

At the end of Passage Jouffroy, a covered alley between two buildings, this clock face is above *Chopin Hotel.

"Always crowded and fun, this place gives a feeling for how the passages were in their mid 19th century heyday. Grévin (grevin.com), Paris's version of Madame Tussauds, is always packed, Pain D'épices (pain-depices.com) is a wonderful old-fashioned toyshop and Segas (canesegas.com) specialises in antique walking sticks. At the end of the main passageway is Hotel Chopin (hotelchopin.fr), with rooms from €96, if you book in advance. Turn the corner by the hotel and the boutiques become more intellectual with cutting-edge photography exhibited in Photo Verdeau (verdeau.fr) and sumptuous art books in the Librairie du Passage.
• 10 boulevard Montmartre, 9th, metro Richelieu-Drouot" 

*Inexpensive Hotel in Paris, Hotel Chopin.

Aren't those enamelware numeral amazing.

 

 

Blue door in Paris

 

What is your lucky number? Place it in the shield above the door.

My lucky number is 53. Or I should say it is my favorite number. Because it appears often when I am looking for something, or needing something… hard to explain, but I am sure you know what I mean.

 

 

4 bis number

 

When in France if you see a number and then the word "BIS" next to it, it means that the number is repeated twice. Usually, the second number "bis" is inside the building or down an alley. Similar to: 4 a and 4 b.

 

 

Number nine

In a perfect world nine would not be an upside down six.

What would be in your perfect world?

(given love, health, peace, fortune and food for everyone…etc. was already in place.) 



Comments

12 responses to “The Perfect 10”

  1. Your logic of numbers just makes me smile.

  2. In a perfect world I would live in a small house on a big grassy hilltop where I could sit outside and breathe the wind.

  3. Helen Packard

    I like the number 9, as it is my birthday and day. Hmmm…

  4. I enjoyed all the photos for the colors and architecture. I didn’t notice the sequence of the numbers, lol. But this post brings to mind a couple quotes:
    There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Francis Bacon
    Perfect is the enemy of good enough. Voltaire

  5. Betty Anderson

    Love your numbers. They make perfect sense❤️

  6. Beautiful postings.
    My lucky numbers are 8, 12 and 28
    I love you and all you share
    Love Jeanne

  7. Oh! and I’m drawn to the number 12. You my dear are a poet and a sage.

  8. Elizabeth Schaeffer

    In a perfect world I often dream that my life is just as it is now, Only I have well behaved hair and I live in Paris.
    This on a tiny candle glass I bought. My lucky # is 3. Don’t know why

  9. This was the perfect way to begin my day, made me feel very happy inside!
    My favourite number is 2, because I prefer company rather than singularity.
    On a side note, I have (from work situations to just have fun) been determined to have a true 50/50 personality. Which means I struggle with or thoroughly enjoy opposites throughout my life -creativity vs logic, fantasy vs fact, symbolism vs reality, yada yada …all this to say I understand both Yann’s and Corey’s perspective on the number alignment. This was, like I wrote before, a perfect post for me to read -loved every bit of it!

  10. 13 is my number, was my father’s too. I see 13 in many ways and all the ways numbers can add up to 13…49th floor of my office, 1273 an employee number, or a receipt amount ending in $xx.13. Since was my father’s number, I usually take it as a nod from him.😊 My perfect world would include my grandparents and my parents generations still here with us 3rd and 4th generations together enjoying each other’s company,learning from and leaning on each other.❤️

  11. In my perfect world I would be a perfectly comfortable body weight and could eat anything I wanted without guilt. The question of my lucky or perfect number is always puzzling to me. I would probably say it was 67, the year I graduated and the year I married. I love that you have so many photo opportunities where you live. I must think about that where I live in Texas (but not in the wide open spaces of West Texas :()

  12. Kindness.

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