Hidden Figures… What a great movie.  It’s about the black women that were NASA’s “computers” during the early space age, and later went on to become computer programmers, engineers, and helped delivered us into space and on to the moon!

I was thinking of a poem about listening and really hearing yesterday afternoon. Then I saw this movie in the evening, and thought about the lesson of these great women whose words should have mattered, but it was the unrelenting and irrefutable mathematics that made them matter, made them be heard and thus made them relevant in the end.  An end that was really the very beginning in so many ways!

In so many ways this movie brings a life lesson for all of us.  Even when you seem invisible to the world, through prejudice of age, race or other reasons you can overcome such prejudice with your actions, with your performance, with delivered results.  In America in the 1960’s, this was a tremendous fete for these women, and it’s not just worth acknowledging, it’s a must for those that respect American ingenuity, equal rights and fair play to celebrate such achievement!

My poem on listening seems trivial in the face of the voice of mathematics, and genius that must be heard because it is what wins the day!  Performance always matters!