Listening to the name of the country in, makes you feel like a tourist.

A womans world

Jan Haag

In the evening
ears pop

Blood, Bones and Butter

..sweet, starchy peas in their own canoe of crisp, watery and almost sugary pod - Gabrielle Hamilton

The fourth wall
close the barn doors
Plumber/utility candles
Long necks
Magret
Apple mousse
The midwestern requirement of well done meat and well done fish....
- GH
Manti
Melamine plates
Rose wine

Reading the elaborate descriptions of past happenings, I wondered how this book was written. In chapter 5 Gabrielle reveals that she 'wrote endlessly in her journals'.

What you are the main cook at a camp, and a camper's father is Mark Bittman? Bite that.

..it takes a lobster more than fifteen years to grow to three pounds. grown men die harvesting them. - GH

saganaki
Taramasalata
Skordalia

Moonwalking with Einstein
London cabbies

The Lure of Long distance

".. a longing that comes out most forcefully in the language of a cild." - Robin Harvie.

".. for the poor of the world so hungry
God only appears to them as bread"
- Stanley Moss, Clocks

Does God exist
not to a man with no desires.

Powder to stop spreading

A swirl of the
matchead
into a box of Eyetex

A blemishless dot
on an infants
temple
to ward off evil

9.11.11
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She lit a match to warm the tip of her black wax pencil

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1.31.12
In India mothers put kohl on babies eyes to ward off blindness.
- Candia McWilliam, What to look for in winter.

Indian fusion

Vij's at home

Vij's
Monsanto

Blue

In the dream
I saw a blue bird
with a long tail split
in two
the tail feathers had designs
like a silk cloth, maroon, gold

Another sticky animal
like in the 'gods must be crazy'
blue
I was warned not to have
anything to do with it.
We were close, I shoved
a camera into its mouth

Outside the office door
a blue- green beetle
lies dead on its back

From Stanley Moss's book

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Kids

A small girl follows a mall cop in black and yellow dress.
ten steps away from family she wonders around with hands around her waist.

Another small girl dances by herself, looking into the mirror.

Book news

Recently my friend saw the Dorian gray movie and asked me if I read it. I read it in college, so long ago, that I could use another read. But time only permits flipping The picture of Dorian Gray.

Trees, a photo book with different kinds of rees. let me add a rescent observation at Crowne Plaza in Tempe. There was a row of what seemed like salt cedars with reall broad trunks. They have been sawed of allover. Logs stick ing out vertically. It was an antithesis of a tree with a canopy arrested to nothing.

Fan book

A Jane Austen Education

Jane Austen;s fans now and then come up with books. As I kept reading about he author finding Austen's characters boring, he got his own book to such a slow pace that the car halted for ever.

Natalie Haynes

A versatile author.

The ancient guide to modern life

In this book, I liked the quote by Trevor J saunders

Spartans managed a diarchy - Natalie Haynes.

Prytany