Aerotropolis

Zappos
Ram Charan
Reloville
Vegas hotels for coventioneering
Kasarda's law of connectivity

Triumph of the city

Its a well heard complaint from home owners that new homes should not be built in this economy, but according to the author Edward Glaeserwhen the demand for a city rises, prices will rise unless more homes are built. When cities restrict new construction, they become more expensive.


Hausmann
John snow's cholera map

why clean water?

Closer than we know

Mira Bartok has a mouse skeleton in her collection.
Pair this with Thieves by Billy Collins

While reading Sex and the River Styx, palimpsest in last but fourth line intrigued me.

Palimpsest in The Memory palace

After Derek Walcott's, Horoscopes for the dead by Billy Collins was a welcome.

The Flaneur reminded me of his poem about a mised vacation. Making the ordinary as preferred as the other.

Sex and the river Styx
Gooseneck lighting
nattering
cambium juice

Polliwog
Windthrow
Margay cats
Aoudad
uncosseted elk or mule deer
rassling a steer
Green up
sibilation
Tessitura
Fatback
Abyssinian chronicles
Wole Soyinka
Elechi Amadi
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Okot p'Bitek
Peter Abrahams
nostrums
Shadbush
Grim Reaper
The method of nature
The Broken balance poem
The Broken balance article
Thoreau


When I confused Edward Hoagland with Edward Hirsch as a poet, 'Sex and the River Styx' became my to-read book. I am glad about the mix-up.

A look at the contents, 'Small Silences', 'Last Call', 'A Last look around', 'Endgame', 'The Glue is Gone' - this cant be good.

"Rising land of course will lift our spirits too".

"the immensity of winds, stars and trees, the infinity of unlobotomized animal species, the intricacy of landscapes, the galaxy of scents and shapes in natural creation, that we are losing, or just no longer sense or see". The author's lament on the status of man-nature relationship, the loss of adventure and mystery in the exploration, is the common thread through most of the chapters. His life and aging experiences have shaped his views on this part where "We do our turn, hang upside down or somersault or walk a wire, then bow out of the limelight."

Ascribing pinnae, whiskers, antenae to humans, the author maintains the continuity he feels between the woods and the house. The book is full of striking metaphors like planetary Lou Gehrig's disease, a cross-stitch of mercenary and sexual greed.

A proud Earthian who wishes to become a limestone if he can remain affixed forever to earth, in this age when we are planning for a dream vacation to other planets. The authors views do make us sit up and ask ourselves if there is anything we can do. If corn for fuel is obscenity to the author, what might he think of the test tube meat?

Thinking about this book, I wondered what the man who fell the first tree felt.

I have my hands on Hoagland's earlier book, 'Notes from the century before' - A journal from British Columbia.

Fiddler in the subway
The Lotus quest

Two poetry bird titles

White egrets by Derek Walcott
Eumaeus
Manchineel shadows
Recanati
Leopardi
Canaletto
Hayrick
Soutane
I found this book very difficult to read.

Swan by Mary Oliver

Morning Glory cloud

Tom Dancer's gift of a whitebark pine cone

essential sparrow and necessary toad

The Lotus Quest

Crowdsourcing in The Open Innovation Marketplace

Hello brain
Innocentive
Top coder

xprize

Edward Hoagland compared a wood turtle's back to Cellini's metal work and its legs to salmon color.

Found Fount

yesterday I found a fountain in the oddest of places. I was waiting at a gas station that I usually go to. Its next to an auto service station. In the boom of people walking in and out with their quick reasons to stop on the go, was a weak fountain surrounded by huge stones. I was reading of skating from a soprstwriting book.

Fannie's last Supper

Parenting and eating

Melanie Rehak mentions a baby crawling backward first in Eating for Beginners.
In the introduction, the author describes her confusion in choosing what to feed her child with so many ways to go as in parenting itself in a rather heightened emergency way of hitting a wall.
Lowboy
M F K Fisher mentioned in maya Angelou's book Great food, all day long along with Elizabeth David, Jessica Harris, Margaret Visser, Jacques Pepin as writers who loved food.
Wyatt Prunty's A Winter's Tale

nature looking out from the cheekbones of EberHart

The Groundhog. Compare this experience with William Stafford's 'Traveling through the Dark'.
Eberhart's line ' my stick had done nor good nor harm'- The stick like stylus to turn the words up and down, in and around the coils to see what one side wont reveal, the other hides.

Compare them both with The Wellfleet Whale of Stanley Kunitz.

cute collection likeWWF cards of poets and their poems.

I like this poetry site

I am looking for 'the Swallows return' by Richard Eberhart. His line 'death is available to birds as to man in all weathers'.

Gnat on my paper. Its usually spider on my paper. Tiny ones. The penultimate one I saw had 8 legs with symmetry around the central axis. The ultimate one had a leg sticking out extended like a long-legged? It was light brown in color with dark spots at equal intervals. I was looking for the kinds of spiders and found that the legs dont have to be symmetrical. One species has pairs of legs grouped like a cross.

21st century man with his poem tampered and Long term suffering with 'time's up, put your pens down'.

Correspondence

I am looking for 'Coast of Maine ' poem too. Eberhart has written more on Maine
Design y Rober Frost.

PS: For title refer to The hard structure of the world poem by EberHart.
Wellfleet oysters in Fannie's Last supper