Overcoming Dyslexia

After a spate of books by parents on rearing disabled children - The Boy In the Moon, All I can handle, The Anti Romantic Child (yet to read), My Dyslexia too has the same reason for existence, only this parent too has faced the problem as his child.
Author Philip Schultz understood very late in life that he suffered from dyslexia when his son was diagnosed with it. In this book, he explains how his lack of understanding of his situation isolated him socially and thus the solitary conditions were ripe for his becoming a writer.
It is ironic that even though the author is not a good follower of his religion, his insecurity and complicated relation with it in writing lets others find a great spiritual meaning for other readers.
The author makes an interesting comparision between being a dyslrxic and a writer.
May be we can expect something like Just like someone without mental illness only more so from Eli Schultz.

Young scientist challenge

Picking books

I have to chose two books in Immortal bird, What to look for in winter, Why be happy when you could be normal?, The great Northern express.

Being a sucker for travel writing, I will go with The Great Northern express. Have been reading lately a lot on children with problems growing. Will rest that feeling for a while. My Dyslexia is Philip Schultz's life with dyslexia. Immortal Bird is a double blow with a child having to surmount great challenges twice. I will be on the lookout for Why be happy when you could be normal?.
I have chosen What to expect in Winter. It seems a bit related to Fiction ruined my family.

A dream

A small hand raises
out at the top
of my uterus.
the palm smaller
than my little finger.

Organic poetry

In the foreword of On Poetry and Craft, Ted's views on how to revise poetry makes one look at a poem like an organic whole.

Carolyn Kizer refers to her poem The Great Blue heron revised by Roethke.

Poets Roethke admired - Louise Bogan, Leonie Adams, Ruth pitter

In The Heron, I like
The wide wings flap but once to lift him up, at once taking away the power from the heron described till now.

Does the society have a responsibility towards artists? An artist knows the value of his/her work. But the process of evaluating an art work is not science.
An artist is created by the society.

The Animal Connection

Cutmarks
Locard's exchange
Thermoluminescence dating
Grammar from lexicon
Bates Goodman paper.
expressive language at 200 words and grammar at 400.
Theory of mind


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Another breed - Lhasa Apso from a colleague.

Twenty first amendment

A while ago I learnt that one of the restaurants could not serve alcohol as they didnt have the license. I wondered if it was an industrial area and the law didnt want workers intoxicating themselves. From Beverage control law, I figure, maybe that municipality has already used up its number of licenses in other restaurants.
Author Jay wexler in The Odd clause, explains the twenty first amendment and Original package doctrine in its relation.

How kids eat cupcakes

Today I learnt of Madhubani art.

A plate with two soft
white bread rounds
what sweet is this?
Something exotic like
rasmalai
A white chocolate cupcake
cut in two
with the colourful topping
devoured by the kid.

He made dragon with cups. I mistook it for a caterpillar.

Pandora's seed

Constitution cafe

Whateverland

Rock the casbah

Between expectations

The tanning of America

Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse