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Friday, February 18, 2011

Hope forever

Whether it be the Berlin Wall, apartheid, the bad old coercive Soviet system, or our own bad old coercive business systems, it seems that any foundations not now built on the realities of human relationship are being swept away by the forces of our time. - Crossing the Unknown sea, David Whyte.

Standing the test of time or falling under.

Restrictions

.. but even during Lithuania's relatively benign interregnum golden period, quotas limied the number of Jews who could practice law. - Al Jaffee, Mad Life

The illustrations in this book are unique with all the mischievous acts that the author was upto as a child.

Kaunas
Prognathic
Keds

Lithuanian Lapta is similar to Indian Gulli danda

How did you view adults in your childhood? Al Jaffee was anti adults.

Fish pond

.. the powers that be decided to poison the pond so that they could get rid of pickerel and bass and horned pout and turtles and stock it with trout. - Mark Vonnegut, Just like someone without mental illness only more so

one question that all adults like to ask kids , 'What will you be when you grow up?'. Mark's 'I should have been a doctor' at 25 from his 9-10 yr old self, made him a doctor.

Once Mark Vonnegut brought home RSV. Contagion does not fear doctor. Therese J. Borchard calls the playroom as 'pink-eye pit' in her memoir Beyond Blue

I talked with Lincoln and Twain
and Dostoyevsky and played
saxophone with Coltrane.
- Mark Vonnegut.


Tree of Hippocrates at harvard from a sapling from Kos.

First do no harm
- Hippocrates
Applies to engineers too. Dont break things while fixing broken stuff.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Does a North rough winged swallow
feel the loss of a feather or two

As the bird whizzes from one end
of the steps to the other, on the bank

does it recognise the feather sailing
like a dart due to reflection

does it feel the loss as much as that
of a flying insect that escapes it

does it feel like the loss of a
toe-nail or an eyelash?

Two owls drop me an insect
when I look at them



How do the birds detect insects?
What is the insects defense?
Crickets are chirping away in India
Is it getting hot?

To a reader

a stack of books
is a bunch of cupcakes

A sauce

claims a domino of chicken pieces and unites them.

Seurasaari

Seurasaari as an open museum, is not going well with me. What are such other jarring notions?
Museums are wonderlands. Salarjung museum is the first one I have been to. As a kid I liked the ceramic dolls.
Why would a cold country celebrate the end of summer? That too with a Bonfire.
The poem reels us in with the mention of place and Vendace but fails to take us along.

Ivory chairs in Salarjung museum.

Stains

Shrimp stain shows on white
Flesh color cloth would hide it.

white school skirts
stained by mud splash
on rainy days

Air displaced

An upright pillow falls
and blows cold air

Luthier

Reading the above poem, I am reminded of the strong odor of cattle's urine, just above where its tail hangs.
Luthier

Perception

legs jagged in

Its spring

the brittle bush with its yellow.