Resurgo. "Offer Fan" in JIM AND THE FLIMS

Yesterday I was out a favorite spot on Four Mile Beach, north of Santa Cruz. That forest fire they had inland has pretty much died down. I did a little ritual that I've often done while working on a new novel in recent years—I draw a logirthmic spiral in the sand and I letter the slogan, "EADEM MUTATA RESURGO", which is Latin for "The Same, Yet Changed, I Re-arise."

The mathematician James Bernoulli (1655-1705) had this inscribed on his tombstone in Basel along with a picture of the logarithm