Buddhism Live: A Fibonacci Sequence

Gerard Sarnat

Five

grandsons

line up

for treats youngest

to oldest just opposite when

their parents were with us in the Laos

town Luang Prabang where monks queue up oldest to youngest every dawn for

two thousand years to accept modest daily alms rounds meals community lay folk offer as each one extends his biksa bowl.

The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones typically starting with 0 and 1. The sequence begins with \(0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,\dots \) and can be defined by the formula \(F(n)=F(n-1)+F(n-2)\), with initial conditions \(F(0)=0\) and \(F(1)=1\).

Late-phase often graphic poet arrived in seventh decade-aphorist-humorist-sometimes-meanderist; Gerard Sarnat’s multiple Pushcart/Best Net Award nominee. Activism Through Poetry: How Gerard Sarnat Uses Verse as a Form of Protest is 2025 retrospective: https://culterateblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/activism-through-poetry-how-gerard-sarnat-uses-verse-as-a-form-of-protest/. His work’s widely-published; including four collections; by Rattle, London Arts-Based Research Centre, Israel Association of Writers in English, Nature of Our Times/Poets For Science, Gravity of the Thing, Brooklyn Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Gargoyle, New Delta Review, Buddhist Review, New York Times, Oberlin, St. John’s University, Northwestern, Yale, Pomona, Harvard, Missouri Baptist, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, Grinnell, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Brown, North Dakota, McMaster, Maine, British Columbia/Toronto/Chicago, Virginia, Alabama university presses. He’s Harvard Medical School-trained physician, Stanford professor, healthcare CEO. Currently, he’s devoting energy/resources dealing with climate justice, serves on Climate-Action-Now’s board. Sarnat’s belonged to longest-running U.S. Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue Group. Gerry’s married since 1969, has three kids, seven grandsons — and looks forward to future granddaughters.