Seth Muller

Canyon Crossing
Juan Martin Botero

Paul Guest

One more theory about happiness

John Baxter

The most beautiful walk in the world

It snows in Paris?
Confiture d oignons. This reminded of an onion pickle(different from onion chutney served with dosas) that my Tamil roomate shared in undergrad.

The Hay Wain

In ovis opalis
Psychogeography
Cloche
Filofax
tisane

Another Paul Theroux book

The tao of Travel

Donn Fendler
Dervla Murphy

In old Patagonia express, Theroux says that there is nothing shocking about leaving home, but rather a slow feeling of gathering sadness as each familiar place flashes by the window, and disappears, and becomes part of the past.
I havent felt this feeling much while doing the trips from school to home and back after each semester. But as the train approaches home, I cant contain myself.
Freya Stark

A swollen nose
is what I find in the
mirror today
All these days I
might not have had a nose at all
It never stood out like this

Books about/by

Snowman
TOMS one for one
Gabrielle Bernstein
Jack Soto
John Warner

Everything is normal

A fake cold
every alternate day
just the voice

pain in the
righ hip

during pregnancy.

Plum

pale spots on the peel
like stars
on the inside pink veins
run through
creamy flesh like
in the brain

In In Motion,
Help your child to wonder

To make talk and swoon

Gary Soto's poem The dime-store parakeet reminded me of a recent visit to Animal zoo in Bordentown.


Mom sends the kids to
the zoo with 'talk
to the parrot'
Macaws dont talk, not
interested in corn or
popcorn
A white cockatoo
lets popcorn hand fed
son calls 'it gentle'
unlike the macaw which
made a 3yr old daughter
blame the father for
letting it eat her hand
A kid's futile attempts
to land corn into a bowl
above him and behind a
mesh bring out the evil in
a foreign tone mommy.
Cockatoo has some popcorns
and doesnt miss the lost
Its time to say bye
and thats when it says
Hello
we all turn back
In frenzy, White Cockatoo
lifts its crest
and nods the head up and down
I clap and the head nods in
fervor.
Later a video showed my head
nodding too.

Essays

Otherwise known as the human condition

Jacques henri Lartigue

Robert Capa

Ruth Orkin

Richard Avedon - portraits - literature.

Enrique Metinides

Richard Misrach

William Gedney

Alec Soth

Joel Sternfield

Michael Ackerman

Miroslav Tichy

Todd Hido

Idris Khan

Edward Burtynsky

Look again

Masters of deception

In college, I became familiar with Escher's paintings and a friend of mine does ambigrams. I took this book more to refresh my memory of Escher and Dali's paintings, I am surprised to find the work of many contemporary artists. The choice of materials for some of the paintings - sugar on black paper, syrup, thread is new to me.

In some pages, its easy to miss the illusion but nothing a second visit cant take care of.

PS: Oliver Peyton's 'Eating Art' is about food made from Giuseppe Arcimboldo's 'Water' painting.

My favourites is synthesis in 'Nomad' by Sandro Del Prete.

Best American sportswriting 2000

Swimming with sharks

Lynne cox

Terminal velocity

Upside down

A bird shrieks early morning
not enough to wake me up
to find who it is
An hour later
I hear it again and through
the blinds
its a grackle trying luck
at the humming bird feeder

At the waters edge