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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

How to critique a memoir
Light poem with synonyms from rogets thesaurus

Personality poets: Yeti poet and  poet crab

Dear Superman

Ten oxhearding pictures
sonku
God poem

definition

Grandma we are poets


She died in peas

She found the doors of heaven by the smell of honey. After having her customary tea, her day and life felt unmoored to time. The only time when she ever considered giving up tea was post visit to the dentist, imagining tea-stained cup.
She is survived by her pantry and pots. Cake decorating kit that she never used. Assortment of passed down gadgets.
She never liked frying. Her husband found it ironical that she should love murukulu. It wasnt about fried vs not fried. It was savoury vs sweet. She watched what she ate when it came to sweets.

What would your food obit say?

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Watching the world




Jim Rogers - Author of Street Smarts and Adventure Capitalist
Short selling
If only 25 investments...
He bought Lockheed when it was a $
concentrate on what you know
Cincinnatus
JimRogers investments


Taming the market




Sell side analyst


The trade market is rife with numbers. When the brain is provided that much data, it sees all kinds of patterns in it. Peter Phams ’The Big Trade’ is about moving away from the data, trying to box the whole market vagaries in a model. The author provides us a way of reaching a percentage of confidence regarding the upward or downward trend of the market from the past performance, trying to simplify the data, following Auction Market theory.
Without getting too lost, the author uses small sets of data to prove his point on watching the performance of a company stock and boxing it.
The techniques in the book are easily adoptable.








The happening floor

Monday, April 1, 2013

After the awards, talk to Edison too


You might recognize these Loomi light from the mall. Have you seen Urbio wall garden on shark tank or 'The Chew'? What do these products have in common. They have used Kickstarter.

Don Steinberg has written The Kickstarter Handbook about the success stories. All success stories are not made the same. This becomes apparent in the Frantic Finish chapter with graphs showing the percentage of goal met as the deadline approaches. You have been approached with the tortoise telling you how far its come and how much of the way is left.




The author supplies most of the information of setting the goal, pledges and rewards (like cold water or baked good sale donations), through interviews and quotes from the successful kickstarters.

If you like ideas, their presentation or implementation, you will like this book.

Getting the baby to say Oui




French Twist by Catherine Crawford

A humorous book leaning more to the differences in the American and French birthing-mothering cultures (frowned upon baby showers). It pans out in the order of pregnancy - no-nos from ob-gyns, big list of shopping for the baby .

A mom on NPR  about an experiment on her kid, letting him play with ipad resulted in a natural decay of interest with time. Author Catherine Crawford allows them only on weekends. A rule is set. So kids already know the zones.

Author's way will give parents time and kids are actually on their best behaviour to spend time with adults. Sounds too good.


Article that made me want to look up writer



An article on simplicity of a product by the authors of  'Simple: Conquering the crisis of complexity'.




I have heard of an OXO product but not this one with its no need to pour out or in several times to measure the exact amount.

Friday, March 29, 2013

Series of get over for babies




Reading the book made me feel like it was a mini pacifiers anonymous.

Fiction in storytelling




While the story is about sharing, it is kind of sad if the fish has to tear away its permanent scales to have friends. May be the story could start with the fish putting on the colourful scales somewhere, so it is clear that it wont harm the fish to give away its scales.

Rainbow nails dont look off.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Pyjama strings vs Book mark






Tug of war poetry - Me, myself and Irene?
Telegram poem - Buffalo war

As possible as yeast - first line of poem 'i am not done yet'. This poem compares with Emily D's work.

Can you imagine Luiclle's two headed woman? Will two headed shark give you a clue?

Confession. Conclude something in each stanza, let your last stanza be the collection of the above conclusions.

Sorrow song. Duty of a poet. Be the hundred voices.


Grange hall  in White America

Pomo Shasta Esalen
History as baby


Her endings
1. For the mute
'too many languages
for one mortal tongue'
2. If our granchild be a girl
'the feast of women,
the feeding and
being fed'


I knew of a couple of famous poems by Lucille Clifton but never felt pushed to explore her work further. Looking at this collection, I gave up even before trying by the enormity of the book. But after being lured into other collections, I have realised how an authors whole body of work speaks in a definite voice. With most poets, we need guides. Not with Lucille Clifton, atleast to enjoy it in first reading. Direct to reader poetry. 
The verse is so light (all simple worlds) that its hard to believe that one can write on weighty issues and still write on/from dreams, poetry for relatives and a letter and followups to Superman - not in the tone of 'Rescue me'. She taunts the forces be to topple her like those dolls that will never touch face with ground. 
Repetition used to good effect of gaining familiarty and belongingness.

A title begins with ellipsis leading to God.