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Thursday, October 27, 2011
A Blizzard under the blue sky, Pam Houston.
One of the things I love most about the natural world is the way it gives you whats good for you even if you dont know it at the time. Talking about winter camping, author Pam Houston sums best the role of nature in resetting our human system. all those visits to the national parks or even the local lake that tidy up the cup with tea dripping on the sides.
With sentences like 'clarity and precision of fresh snow and blue sky', she makes the reader appreciate the immutability of certain things, the so called universal truths which fix our dithering daily boats.
Out of Habit, I start apologizing, also included in Scoot over Skinny.
One of the things I love most about the natural world is the way it gives you whats good for you even if you dont know it at the time. Talking about winter camping, author Pam Houston sums best the role of nature in resetting our human system. all those visits to the national parks or even the local lake that tidy up the cup with tea dripping on the sides.
With sentences like 'clarity and precision of fresh snow and blue sky', she makes the reader appreciate the immutability of certain things, the so called universal truths which fix our dithering daily boats.
Out of Habit, I start apologizing, also included in Scoot over Skinny.
Culture
One of the basic functions of culture: to lay out a predictable world in which the individual is firmly oriented. - LaRay M Barna.
A westerner I know, appreciates the eastern culture of parents arranging marriage for kids and the respect elders get. She has a 1D disapproval for the higher divorce rates.
house owner should welcome visitor - international student.
Social time: heartbeat of a culture. When the authors found that language wasnt lending itself to pose questions like they wanted to in surveys, they looked at definite durations of certain activities for comaprision.
The analog time in the house clock with no numbers, subject to approximation is behind the precise one in the car.
A westerner I know, appreciates the eastern culture of parents arranging marriage for kids and the respect elders get. She has a 1D disapproval for the higher divorce rates.
house owner should welcome visitor - international student.
Social time: heartbeat of a culture. When the authors found that language wasnt lending itself to pose questions like they wanted to in surveys, they looked at definite durations of certain activities for comaprision.
The analog time in the house clock with no numbers, subject to approximation is behind the precise one in the car.
Guidelines A Cross Cultural Reading/Writing Text.
Guidelines, A Cross Cultural Reading/Writing Text.
Stumbling blocks in Intercultural communication
In some cultures, also, it is polite to refuse the first or second offer of refreshment. - LaRay M Barna
We had a story in our nondetail in which an elder sister takes her brother along for a birthday party only if he promises to behave. He is supposed to refuse offer for any food atleast three times before accepting. The mischievous kid says no three times to the first offer, so he can enjoy the food.
In high school, my sister and I were at a dinner reception. They had egg curry being served. We were asked to eat. Being the elder sister I answered that we were not hungry. I felt highbrow refusing. My sister would have liked to eat. Now I remember to leave the onus of accepting/refusing a food offer to whoever is with me. Sometimes, even after I have made my mind that I will not find myself having anything to do with cake at birthday party after having had the first serving, I will say 'no' to taking cake for the road. I will say 'maybe my husband will like that'. After all these internal dramas, as soon as we get home, we finished up the cake in few seconds. A vanilla banana, strawberry cake. Its USP was its softness of the cake layers as well as the filling. The cake was mistakenly made girly with pink lettering and pink flowers. Not a hit with parents, but with all the little girls who attended the party, who also happened to be the majority. All the girls were asking was if they could have a flower. Must be the first time that a cake was trumped at the birthday party by kids. Well, a little boy too asked for a flower for his sister. I have seen at yet another birthday party where a kid asked for a balloon for his younger sister.Kids can be distracted with the auxiliaries on the cake but adults have their focus on it. I managed to have a serving of the cake and didnt go for more, although I was reminded of the baby shower cake which I had enjoyed then except for the minor unequally thawed filling the cake. I had seconds with that one. This cake was better and cost half less. The baker of the cake that cost half more is no longer in business.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
I chose this book Leaning into the wood over Eudora welty's short story collection. I wanted to listen to new voices. The pieces are very short and hook you with their lack of fabrication and the directedness of their life choices for place to associate with.
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This time at the library, imagine my horror when I found my sacred shelves of poetry and non-fiction littered with trashy books. Somebody got an idea to compress the books from different sections into one. It must be that the funding has dwindled and so the new books can now do with less shelf space.
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Winter song by Mary Kathryn Stillwell.
Planting trees - Twyla Hansen
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This time at the library, imagine my horror when I found my sacred shelves of poetry and non-fiction littered with trashy books. Somebody got an idea to compress the books from different sections into one. It must be that the funding has dwindled and so the new books can now do with less shelf space.
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Winter song by Mary Kathryn Stillwell.
Planting trees - Twyla Hansen
Response to Sally Tisdale's 'Letting Myself Go'
It doesnt matter that whole human epochs have celebrated big men and women, because the breif period in which I live does not;.....
The author is looking to the society for the kind of person she has to be to be accepted. When you are on the block, you could be accepted or not. In a society like America, not 'fitting in' has never stopped people from self assertion.
In trying always to lose weight, we've lost hope of simply being seen for ourselves.
Can our fat self and thin self reconcile? How do we know that the fat version is our true self. Does body have the lesson of 'balance' inbuilt?
For ages humans believed that the body helped create the personality..... The modern culture of dieting is based on the idea that the personality creates the body.
What unsettles the author is how the world thinks now. If one accepts the general thoughts from ages, one should feel more at ease with current day norms.
Now, I try to imagine a world where we eat only food we need, and it seems inhuman.
What animal on this planet eats for pleasure other than satisfying hunger? Why are we shying away from accepting that our indulgences can have consequences?
I felt no joy in being thin - it was just work, something I had to do.... I hated the very idea of maintenance.. but at the same time the author 'used to be attracted to the sharp angles of the chronic dieter' and 'dreamed of having a boy's body, smooth, hipless,lean'. Maintaining weight takes effort. If it were easy would the talk on how fat people are viewed in the society be different? I cannot imagine how much more accusatory the glances would be.
By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. By letting myself go, I go places.
On the contrary, having an unhealthy relationship with food will limit movement in no time.
I felt truly reduced then, reduced to being just a body and nothing more. Yet we want to revel in our bodies, not all too perfect. Its our idea of beauty and perfectness that needs fixing.
The author is looking to the society for the kind of person she has to be to be accepted. When you are on the block, you could be accepted or not. In a society like America, not 'fitting in' has never stopped people from self assertion.
In trying always to lose weight, we've lost hope of simply being seen for ourselves.
Can our fat self and thin self reconcile? How do we know that the fat version is our true self. Does body have the lesson of 'balance' inbuilt?
For ages humans believed that the body helped create the personality..... The modern culture of dieting is based on the idea that the personality creates the body.
What unsettles the author is how the world thinks now. If one accepts the general thoughts from ages, one should feel more at ease with current day norms.
Now, I try to imagine a world where we eat only food we need, and it seems inhuman.
What animal on this planet eats for pleasure other than satisfying hunger? Why are we shying away from accepting that our indulgences can have consequences?
I felt no joy in being thin - it was just work, something I had to do.... I hated the very idea of maintenance.. but at the same time the author 'used to be attracted to the sharp angles of the chronic dieter' and 'dreamed of having a boy's body, smooth, hipless,lean'. Maintaining weight takes effort. If it were easy would the talk on how fat people are viewed in the society be different? I cannot imagine how much more accusatory the glances would be.
By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. By letting myself go, I go places.
On the contrary, having an unhealthy relationship with food will limit movement in no time.
I felt truly reduced then, reduced to being just a body and nothing more. Yet we want to revel in our bodies, not all too perfect. Its our idea of beauty and perfectness that needs fixing.
Books say that
women follow their mothers in birthing
the mother had seen the baby's lung spring
into action even if to stop after a day
the daughter had fears of what might happen
of wanting a girl and not having enough
to know even if it was a girl or a boy
She is still a mother cause she cared
about the baby.
"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist." Michael Levine
the mother had seen the baby's lung spring
into action even if to stop after a day
the daughter had fears of what might happen
of wanting a girl and not having enough
to know even if it was a girl or a boy
She is still a mother cause she cared
about the baby.
"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist." Michael Levine
Saturday, October 22, 2011
After reading 'Letting myself go' by Sally Tisdale Scoot over skinny, I wished she had a different viewpoint about losing weight.
A shorter version of that article.
Sympathetic pregnancies
Couvade
The man who could not stop overeating
response to fat like him essay
In the Fat lady essay, countertransference, process and content in therapy,not to keep news of a parent's illness from kids, sympathy fast, 'pounds flowed off in rivulets'.
Dagwood sandwich
I couldnt go on reading Big game hunters and Big time. For some reason I thought the latter was by a woman even after reading the line about the author's difficulty with women.
In 'Fatland' Stephen Kuusisto says that 'no one who visits that country ever forgets it' and that he 'was only a tourist in the world of fat'. A reflection on how a body's existence is transitory in the fat land. With his newly attained fat by choice, people start noticing him. This popularity contrasts the oblivion faced by Natalie Kusz in 'on Being Invisible'. Being the designer of fat, he has the same cockiness as Stephen Shaw in Fat guys kick ass.
In 'Hunger', from Anne Lamott's therapist..'If I(AL) was feeling very other, sad and....'
The other sounds less like unknown more like the avoided.
Queen of the gym
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Force field of fat in This is why I am fat
Fat acceptance movement
A shorter version of that article.
Sympathetic pregnancies
Couvade
The man who could not stop overeating
response to fat like him essay
In the Fat lady essay, countertransference, process and content in therapy,not to keep news of a parent's illness from kids, sympathy fast, 'pounds flowed off in rivulets'.
Dagwood sandwich
I couldnt go on reading Big game hunters and Big time. For some reason I thought the latter was by a woman even after reading the line about the author's difficulty with women.
In 'Fatland' Stephen Kuusisto says that 'no one who visits that country ever forgets it' and that he 'was only a tourist in the world of fat'. A reflection on how a body's existence is transitory in the fat land. With his newly attained fat by choice, people start noticing him. This popularity contrasts the oblivion faced by Natalie Kusz in 'on Being Invisible'. Being the designer of fat, he has the same cockiness as Stephen Shaw in Fat guys kick ass.
In 'Hunger', from Anne Lamott's therapist..'If I(AL) was feeling very other, sad and....'
The other sounds less like unknown more like the avoided.
Queen of the gym
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Force field of fat in This is why I am fat
Fat acceptance movement
Jungle activity
Reading Fires by Rick Bass in The Big Sky reader, the initial description of the hare activity takes me back to the sunday mornings we watched Mowgli, especially the water sounds, the birds, hops of the animals.
Friday, October 21, 2011
In Sparrow, I couldnt connect to the poems initially. Towards the later half, the subjects of people and birds became more relatable.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Perri Klass with her 'different narratives' in Becoming a Doctor, recognises a patient not just as a victim of a disease but as a person in a family, a carrier og gene pool and all the other threads of stories that a person carries in him/her.
Lauren Slater
Lauren Slater
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