Impspired Issue 23

Issue 23… 23 that’s pretty good going.

What’s the connection between basketball superstar Michael Jordan, Beat Generation novelist William Burroughs, comedian Harpo Marx and mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr.? The number 23. Although I took this comment from the internet so I’m not 100% sure why.

But that’s not all. In the Bible, Numbers 23:23 contains the phrase “What hath God wrought,” which happens to be the first message sent in code on the telegraph by Samuel Morse back in 1843. If you add up the four digits of 1967, the year that Nirvana co-founder Kurt Cobain was born, they come to 23 – which is also the sum of the four digits for 1994, the year in which he died. All of us humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes in our genetic makeup. And the medieval Catholic military order, the Knights Templar, had 23 grand masters during its existence.

Click a writers name and see what they have to share with the world.

A

Otto Alexander

Bobby Seigetsu Avstreih

Mikki Aronoff

Sandra Arnold

B

Rose Mary Boehm

Charlie Brice

Gary Beck

Tom Bell

Jerome Berglund

Robert Beveridge

Philip Butera

Mars Brocke

Sienna Black

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

C

Douglas Colston

Neal Crook

D

Tony Dawson

John Drudge

Salvatore Difalco

E

David Estringel

F

Dan Flore III

Joseph Farley

G

Ken Gosse

John Grey

Linda S. Gunther

H

Joan Hus

Stephen House

I

Martin Ijir

K

Jane L King

Sreekanth Kopuri

L

Duke La Rance

Tim Law

M

Fred Miller

P

Fabrice Poussin

R

Robert Runte

Charles Rammelkamp

S

Nolo Segundo

Cheryl Snell

Darren Solomon

Eugen Spierer

Anissa Sboui

Keith E. Sparks Jr.

T

John Tustin

Ann Christine Tabaka

Terry Trowbridge

Ron Torrence

Foster Trecost

W

Kay Watkins

Renee Williams

Christian Ward