Cathy Gorini

Introducing Geometry for the Artist —
This course may not be your hardest
But it’s super appealing
To mind, heart, and feeling —
And the teacher? She’s one of our smartest

Your mathematics requirement is satisfied
With no heavy math — you are gratified!
The answer to prayers
Among student affairs —
This teacher has long been beatified

The teacher? She’s one of our best
Her name? You’ve surely all guessed —
It’s Cathy Gorini
Mathematical genie —
By her presence for years we’ve been blessed

These days you’re waving your palm at her
You’re flinging your costliest balm at her
For Cathy’s great sequel —
A course without equal —
The course called Art for the Geometer

Some folks have anxiety with math —
For her it’s a sparkling warm bath
It’s nature’s own laws —
Self-referral applause —
This is the world of . . . Cath

While others grow weary and bleary
She remains perfectly cheery
She brims with delight —
No slippage in sight  
In her lectures expounding set theory

A specialist in math education,
She lights up the very foundation —
Its basis in Being,
In Atma — she’s seeing
Pure silence in fine fluctuation

She’s the editor of Raja Raam’s journal —
Talk about status supernal
Mathematics applied
To the truth that’s inside —
The equations of knowledge eternal

Nature is made of mathematics
The universe is math’s acrobatics
Nature’s great wonders?
Expressions of numbers —
Mathematics’ dynamic dramatics

Yes, Cathy is tops among teachers
But among her endearingest features —
Is a gift and a skill
With the power to thrill —
Her love for policies and procedures

She chaired the Curriculum Committee
More years than anyone in this city
Meetings each week —
She’s a policy geek —
She relishes that nitty gritty

One thing’s abundantly clear
The thing that she’s always held dear —
It’s twice-daily escape
To her favorite shape —
That beautiful gold hemisphere

Cathy’s logged years in the Dome
Years in there, flying on foam
A hale, hearty hopper
A cheery chart topper
That place is her practical home

We wish her a timeless sabbatical
Into the purely mathematical
Into the source,
Pure Being, of course —
Is such a wish really that radical?

We’ve run all the numbers, statistics
We’ve double checked all the ballistics
From her years of transcending
This finding is trending —
Her experiences match the great mystics’

Cathy’s a knower of reality
Of truth beyond time and locality
She more than believes it —
She lives it and breathes it —
The numinous becomes the normality

Cathy has been here for ages
Her praises would promptly fill pages
She’s very well grounded
But still, we’re astounded —
She’s up there with saints and with sages

Her consciousness expands to infinity
Singularity pulsing in trinity
No numbers can capture
That bliss and that rapture —
How do you measure divinity?

Our mathematical genial genie —
Offer her fresh-picked zucchini!
Sing tones that are dulcet
In praise of the null set! —
All praises to Cathy Gorini!

JAI GURU DEV

July 25, 2022