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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

When are you done appreciating art

When you cam move onto the next
when you are hungry or angry
when you are tailgated

Sociology

Global Sociology, Introducing Five Contemporary societies begins with Japan. Sadly, my book has only two societies, Japan and Egypt.
Reading about Japanese children blocks being big and involving teamwork, I want to knwo mroe about other societies.
Reading of deviant behavior, I want to know more about what holds the 'culture' in place. If there is a mechanism for preservation or flexibility is a part of it. Japan, small still has half of US population. In the beginning the author talk of its culture being open to influences, yet to know how it assimilates the deviances.

Morning tidings


Mocking bird just woke up at 5.50

An hour later, clouds rolled out like fish scales end with a thick edge.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Sky Harbor's heavy purse

As I got off the elevator at baggage claim, I couldnt help noticing the sparkles on the floor and the newness of a building about to be occupied while there were parts of the walls high above still wrapped in white plastic. Paul Goldberger, in Situation Terminal calling airports a logistical nightmare reasons that the last thing the cash-starved airlines and airport authorities want to think about is aesthetic appeal.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Wake up

The morning sunlight
turns eucalyptus
and every other tree
around into
a flowering acacia

A far neighbor has
a rooster

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Starvation

I want to understand what does it mean to have people dying of starvation. 'Aid' if it does not work without production. Reading of The Great Starvation Experiment, I see why someone has to volunteer for this exam. A person in malnutrition state might seem like an ideal candidate for the study. But for moral reason, a starving person will have to be restored to health.

Last night

there were clouds
woke up this mornign with a thought
to write on cross-cultural myths.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Piled paper

Can you start yourself
over again
throwing your
versions of past
as perforated sheets
torn from a note pad
crumpled
trashed

Or is life
a scrapbook with pages
one not like the other
smoothed
to fit into the book

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Food in Travel

With Extreme Chocolate , Three Chopsticks and Kabul Nights by Kristin Ohlson, theres more food than ever in the Best American Travel Writing 2008.
When Super Chef edits.

weekends of a pine tree

Sunlight falls on the edge
threads of gold shimmer
like poms poms from
bicycle handles

Above that pine tree
the moon awaits to
bathe the sun basked

Friday, September 17, 2010

The kite wades with the wind

into the depths of the void
into the beyond

If I have to pray instead
how can I believe a
beyond

If the ocean holds the pearl
let me dive

If the heavens hold gods
let me soar

No kite flying

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Motherhood

I just hope the snakes don't get out of the cargo hold next.
- Anne Lamott. Traveling Mercies.

Fears out of the collective consciousness crawls into the movie.
Flipping pages of WildLife Encyclopedia, I shuddered at a page with a picture of an adder with its fork tongue hanging. Later when I read that it 'looks menacing but is harmless', I accepted it more. And then I dont squirm at an adder with its little babies, four of them around her in their S shapes. Having just seen videos of camel, dolphin birthing videos, I dont find them revolting.

Life and Death in Slo Mo

Lichen is what reduces rock to soil and sand.
- Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies.


I first came across this word in connection with Robert Frost's poem mending wall. Why is water so pervasive a sculptor? Making bridges, eroding banks. Undoing the effect of fire and gravity. Is all life, war of the elements of nature?

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Mirror Test

Yesterday there was a dog in my room. He was making a reconnaisance of all things lying around. He happened to stand in front of a mirror. It didnt register. He didnt show a sign of recognising himself.

Still Life

Apples. Oranges. Jugs. Linen on Table.

The beginning of still Life.

Then figs, pears and exotic.

Looking at Mendelez's hacked water melon dripping, ripped pomegranate with glistening pink pearls, cantaloupe with the seeds still held in the sticky mass, hanging.

Fish. Lobster. They join the rank too. For them its an antithesis to be called still life.

Mendelez's artichokes, cauliflower are the most unexpected.


Master of the Spanish Still Life

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Museum

is a dream
with its incongruities

A high outdoor pedestal
Friezes from walls
apart in place and time

you as the curator
maintain the inventory

know what binds the
episodes in your dream

Do you own just this museum?

Do you sometimes loan?

The dreams lost in travel
were they old
would their loss not be felt?

Is there a cast of the original?

Different dreams. different casts
of the same origin.


19th century collection of classical casts, Slater Memorial Museum
pg 76. Travels in the history of architecture, Robert Harbison.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Travel with books

I am on a virtual trip to Jamaica with Lonely Planet and youtube. I like it so far. Dunn falls with its staircases and the greenery. Dolphins shy kisses.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Dreamhouse

I dreamt of this wondeful house which had many rooms and there were many surprises, some sections of the house were engaging. Imagine enrichment. Before dozing to sleep, I was flipping through French Country Kitchens. One main picture I like is of half vertical walls into the dining room which served as shelves for 3 rows of cookbooks on either side.
Another dream that I remember from few years ago had ahouse which had many gadgets all well concealed.

Culture

In Culture and Psychology, Yang (1982) distinguished between two forms of achievement motivation: individually oriented and socially oriented (compare Maehr & Nicholls, 1980).
Growing up, I knew I had to study well as my parents were working hard for my education.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Dreamworks

There is a saucepan with savory snacks and potatoes reduced in milk. I see a man carrying a basket with a lettuce layer which could hold half a dozen cabbages with two cabbages to a side and lots of green from some sort of herb like coriander or dill. Before sleeping, I flipped pages of
Veselka cookbook
Before I slipped into sleep, I heard a bit of Edwin Peterson's Penns Woods west - Hostel with almost a score people going out on their bikes into woods.
My dad and I go on bicycles from a sloping bridge. On the left, we view the church from a higher point of view. The second floor inside with the ground wider by a room width all around.
While going down the bicycle I ended up holding onto the second level railing, while the bicycle and I were at the ground. Ahead of me are stairs. At this angle, I am about to topple. I see that I can get down the stairs? How did I manage to get off the bicycle. I go back up the stairs and bring my bicycle down.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Paralysis

We are every moment conscious of internal power: while we feel, that, by the simple comand of our will, we can move the organs of our body, or direct the faculties of our mind - D Hume

Until one day, you can not instruct your legs to move.
Your lucky legs without polio have led you everywhere you wished, even into the problems that you were afraid of walking into. It is not that the legs themselves that have become heavy and pulled you to the ground. The communication channels have been snapped. The network in your body is now snags. No amount of the sensation inside your body will shock those muscles into action. In your mind, you try again to pump the power that you had from the time you thought.