Thursday, August 16, 2012

Three

Lots of things come in threes. Rock, paper, scissors. The three little pigs. Beginnning, middle, end. I could just keep on listing trios but then you  would probably quickly grow bored and never come back. Three is actually quite an interesting number. It resembles an ear. How wonderful! Okay, not that amazing... Well, three's seem important in the Christian religion with the Trinity and all. There's also three branches in the government, three rings in your binder, and three of Newton's Laws of Motion. Oops, there I go again listing things that come in threes. There's just so many! Carl Sandburg wrote a poem called Threes. You can go search it if you like.It's also been noted by historians that some very early people had a counting system that basically went one, two, many. Apparently three was considered pretty big back then. I guess it still is if you just think about all the things that come in threes.

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