On the non-existence of tangents

Via my friend Katie, who has a lovely blog at xk8tx.livejournal.com .  Used without permission but we are all part of one big rhizome, and with attribution I can't imagine her caring that I've drawn this line.

solution. first, realize that all things are rhythmic and therefore, cyclical. next, realize that there is no such thing as tangents, or lines tangent, in periodic waveforms (until you start doing calculus, but thats a whole other topic for discussion) only the periodic function itself. now, view it like this. the waveform is composed of an infinite number of varying frequencies composed together in such a way that it forms one massive periodic function. this massive function is life, and all the components are the things that make it up. realize that you never went on tangent katie, you just encountered some variable or constant along the way that gave a change of frequency or a phase shift.