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Isaiah Jones versus the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey) 

Chapter 7 The Counting of Things: Time, Life, and the Universal Order*

For the last three days she had spent aboard the Exodus since being rescued by Isaiah and his Dogo Argentino, Starbuck, Naomi Galatea Cabala observed the gangly black boys morning ritual that he had performed each morning for the last 10 years. It begins after carefully assembling the Mu ren Zhuang (the Chinese translation is wooden man) after he carefully assembles the PVC water filled contraption on the main deck he stripes to the waist before he begins his meditation.

He begins slowly methodically with several seconds between each strike and as he continues he builds speed hitting the dummy with hand, foot, knee and elbow each strike hitting with greater force and speed than the previous the drumming sound of the blows ringing out across the deck over the waves. He builds to a blinding speed the staccato machine gun rhythm of his strikes sound out for the next hour.

This morning ritual was for him a form of meditation, a way to find inner peace and balance in a world that could be as tempestuous as the storm they had weathered together. After his practice, Isaiah would sit full lotus on the foredeck, sweat glistening on his skin, and silently take in the view of the Caribbean stretching out to the horizon. For him, this was a form of spiritual connection—not with a higher power, but with the vastness of the natural world and the growing complexity of life.

Naomi, although a former Delta Force operative, was at heart still a good Catholic schoolgirl, educated by Jesuit priest, yet she respected his atheistic beliefs and the manor in which he found meaning in his own way. There was something odd about meeting him especially after reading about him in that People Magazine 30 Under 30 article 6 years ago. The article mentioned that his parents, both adjunct professors at SMU, were veterans who incorporated martial arts training into his homeschooling. At a time when the public schools were removing cursive writing, physical education, and music courses, the Jones added calligraphy, martial arts, and music to his homeschooling curriculum. His education was tailored to his psyche in a way that would have been impossible in any other school setting. They did not view his autism as a hinderance to his education the way the public school teachers would have.

His father Kennedy told the story of how at age three, while he was helping a friend repair his car while he and his wife were still stationed in Sicily, Isaiah had already demonstrated his mastery of mathematics. While Kennedy was working on the car Isaiah had arranged his sockets and wrenches in an elegant spiral pattern on the ground. but he noticed there was something odd about the arrangement of the tools so he took a photograph of it before he and the twins put his tools away. That evening he when he showed the photograph to his wife Helena she gasped. The spiral of tools numbers were the arranged in the Fibonacci sequence. Kennedy and Helena Jones then began to teach their 3 year old twins Emily and Isaiah in earnest after discovering his peculiar fascination with numbers.

It was just another layer of the multifaceted boy she had come to know over the last week. He was nothing like she imagined he was when she had only read about him in news papers and magazine articles. In this vast world, each of us must find their own path, and Isaiah had found his through numbers through counting by using mathematics of music, plotting the ships course or the practice of Wing Chun his counting helped give the world order to clear his mind and to focus his thoughts into equations that were his ideas of order.

[Notes]

[The average lifespan worldwide is 71 years. I first did the math when I was 4 years old I know when I die. Adjusted for gender and race, The average year length is 365.2425 calendar days. So, to get the number of seconds per lifespan: 71yrs/life × 365.2425days/yr × 24hrs/day × 60min/hr × 60sec/min = 2,240,543,592sec/avg life.  

Similarly, How long is 1,000,000s? Answer: One million seconds would take up 11 days, 13 hours 46 minutes and 40 seconds.  

How much time do we sleep in our lifetime? an average a person sleeps for 8 hours in a day, that means that an average person will sleep for 229,961 hours in their lifetime or basically one third of their life.  

How Many Seconds in a Month? Do Some Months Have Different Numbers of Seconds?  

How do you find the middle point between two locations?  

What is the average age of death? According to the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, average life expectancy in the U.S. is 78.6 years—76.1 years for men and 81.1 years for women.  

Secondly How many years is a lifetime? The average human spends roughly 79 years or 28,835 days on Earth. So, there are an average of 692,040 hours in a lifetime.  

How much is 1000000days?  

1,000,000 days divided by 365 days/year is 2740 years.  

then How long ago is 1000000000 seconds? Living one billion seconds occurs about two-thirds of the way between your 31st and 32nd birthdays. Specifically, one billion seconds is 31.69 years or a little more than 11,574 days.  

How many years ago was 1000000000 seconds?

How long would 1000000000 seconds be?

Specifically, one billion seconds is 31.69 years or a little more than 11,574 days.]

-about the author:

JD Cloudy’s poetry has disappeared in the literary journals; Fatfizz, Mad Swirl, Texas Beat Anthology, Danse Macabre, Du Jour, and Death List Five. He has won no literary awards, entered no slam competitions, and never completed college. He lives to write in Dallas, Tx.