5.
That was supposed to be my name. They wouldn't let my mother do it. Couldn't spell it either. Would gum up the works.
So, Starr became my middle name. It is a family name. Belle Starr, but it's also an object with five points. It's 5 hidden.
5.
It's a wonderful number. We have base 10 because of it. We have five fingers (most of us) on each hand. We have five things protruding from our core. We have five main senses.
5.
It's a symbol. A representative idea of a number of things, but it's a word. A word that has so much meaning tied to it. Memories. Dreams.
5.
Someone saw it in gold on a fire truck, wrote a poem about it, which produced a painting featuring a disguised portrait, representing time and memory and an accumulation of ideas.
What does 5 mean to you?