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Parishioner in MBA class

Bob Massie
Factor VIII
Life in Paris. I cannot imagine living in a 400yr old apartment. A microwave from 30 yr old apartment seems like a compromise.

Yesterday I read about how France built discrimation in its cities. A reversal of situation.
The author relates how various incidents in his life have prepared him for the future. By running the first school paper, he saw how change can be brought only if both the authorities and the subjects are willing to call out the mistakes. Encountering people facing difficult nations, he learnt that crime doesnt need a political label.
Last grave at Dimbaza
Vladimir Bukovsky
When the author finds that Yale in 1974 wasnt built with access to all in mind, I looked up the Yale Disability services. Having worked at Disability services as a student, I didnt know that the facilities werent available all the time until Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
The book has a powerful voice when the author narrates his experiences as a parishioner. He builds the scene with his dilemmas of making people see the problem with how the church money is being handled by divesting the moral connection and its obligations having laid the responsibility of its welfare in a ruthless third party hand. Sound familar?
It was excitng to read the coverage of South Africa relations and Mandela release. It made me imagine how my country leaders would have felt fighting for freedom.

Crazy about books

Persistent reader

Avid book readers are people who are at some level dissatisfied with reality

By checking out books that hadnt been read in years, the author gave them shelf life.

With my hands on

I didnt want to go crazy reading another one on books

Travel collection

If there is one genre that does not make one guilty of reading it, its being in another place without all the expense.

Slowing down but not all the way to smell roses 

Blair Braverman perfume hunting in Namibia.

Taxi Gourmet asks a cabbie in a country to drive her to their favourite eatery.
Kirsten Koza
Take your big trip
Abbie kozolchyk
Laura Fraser

The health of poetry

A while ago, I tried to write towards “The Power of Poetry in the Modern World,” South Atlantic Review (SAMLA). For some reason I took the way of modern poetry. I hoped Norton's anthology would get me going. Then I thought the Coursera Modern poetry will lead me to something. A new look at it makes me think of writing(prose/poetry) and its role in the old and modern world.
Indiana review was looking for work for Dana Gioia issue. I came across his Can poetry matter? which points to two other essays Is Verse a dying technique? and  Who killed poetry?

Hothouse tomatoes

WD-40

One-legged squats. Wow never heard of that. Anna Quindlen who thinks is not the exercise type of person, sets out to tell herself a different story and do a headstand. By the time she learnt how to, she found extra change and a pair of earrings. On the other end in Farmers insurance ad, a cat and what not is found on the roof.

In Bartholomew and the Oobleck, 'Having never made Oobleck before, the magicians do not know what Oobleck does or even what Oobleck looks like.'

Such was the case when I made 'Spiced honey Biscuits' from A feast of Ice and Fire. havng never made biscuits, I did not know how it should look when done. The cookies in the picture make me wonder if I should have added more honey. I overbaked them when I found them gooey. It was fun mixing the cold butter into the flour. I didnt believe that it needs 1 tbsp baking powder. 

The Sneetches story reminded me of Dunya Mikhail's poem.

The tail of a mouse

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Li Young Lee writes that 'The real subject (of poetry) is silence. Looking him up I found The Childrens Hour. HWL says there is such a thing as The Childrens hour and refers to Bishop of Bingen and Mouse Tower. The Bishop is claimed to have said 'Hear the mice squeak' referring to the cries of the hungry he locked in the barn and set fire to'.
In Baby mouse series mentioned in

Baby mouse asks her brother 'want to play squeak?'

The world will have its full harvest of poems - Jane Hirshfield.

Oryoki - Zen and Jane
Zen is not about belief. It’s more about what happens when belief is unfastened - Jane Hirshfield

Doubt and seeking - Rachel Corrie, Layla Al Attar.

Jean Valentine and silence. She quotes Emily Dickinson's The difference between despair
While Li young lee with his attachment to silence quotes EDs they worship an eclipse.
Burning bush

A writing as well as thought exercise - Filling in the gaps in myths.
If you have thought a flower could have more metaphors, try this an up-ended skirt.

In Alicia Ostriker's essay 'god the Mother' the last lines are a saying in Talmud: "It is not incumbent on you to finish the task. neither are you free to give it up". I am reminded of quote on karma from bhagavad gita.

With poetry, I feel I am in love. With prose, I feel I am in a marriage - Dunya Mikhail
So I discover poetry is am amoeba

When I wrote the blessing, I began, as any memoirist must, to move from anecdote to an unfolding narrative in time. - Gregory Orr in 'The Given' essay.

Open your mouth. ha ha ha
Food and packaging

All things metaphor

Have you seen Fountain Hills, fountain? A friend's dad compared the canvas of the foam caused by the fountain, wind to a boat. Its the sail that triggered this comparision. Do you look at our impulse to run and compare what we see with what we already know.
Treasure trove of metaphor articles
Recently I meant to read an article about metaphor and poetry. Have to find that.
In December an essay on Modern poetry is due.

Walking the amazon

Writing

Roll a boulder up a hill everyday
First of all, being creative is not summoning stuff ex nihilo. It's work, plain and simple -- adding something to some other thing or transforming something.

Repetition

In both  Sea rose and Sea poppies, HD uses drift, flung and  sea repeat.
In lines and Between walls, William Carlos Williams repeats broken pieces of green glass.

In an interview Kay Rya talks about repetition.

In Rose Pogonias, Frost talks of the colored flowers as 'wings of color' and HD calls her sea poppy a 'flame on leaf'.

In ModPo course the Sea rose and Sea poppies were seen as templates of modern imagist poetry. But as Tim Kendall says it could be just about their favourite flowrs.

The book makes me think that this is the first I am reading on Frost, which it is not.

Polysyndeton