Animal pyramid

Lizards could reduce Lyme disease. Recently a friend told me about an observation she made after 5 years of how her cat kept the scorpions at bay. When I brought this up with another scorpion infested house owner, he said that lizards helped in reducing scorpions.
Cats and Scorpions
Lizards and scorpions

Inspiring workspaces of the famously creative

Thats Font Creatica

When the book  Sark's new Creative Companion said that you could read lying down as it was written that way. Close to sleeping, I was doing just that.

Retaining the creativity you are born with

As part of Tina Seelig's Crash course to creativity, I read few articles on ecorner. In the lecture, Tom kelley says that the youngest grade students called themselves artists. 

Torrance test of creative thinking

According to the book, ask your kid of what all things remind them of red, for unusual answers to pick up on their creativity.

The author suggests making a mural on a blackboard around a subject which can then be used as background for roleplay.

Some of the things the author suggests:
Making baby obstacle course for a story
Making finger puppets - crafts
Baby bag with surprises

opposites cards
body chart
Touch and guess game - Once at SanTan Mountain center, a mom encouraged her kid to feel something in a cardboard box. It was fur.
Weather wheel

A crash course to Creativity

Stanford has an online course A crash course on creativity taught by the author Tina Seelig, author of the book A crash course on creativity. Interesting ecorner.

In the book, the author asks us to come up with as many uses for a paper clip or piece of paper.

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Reading like a historian
Powers of 10

While searching for , I found

and started reading of Chindogu on the net. Which is what the next para of the book is about.

Hobby horse
TRIZ

Make space

Reading early

Read this 'Goodnight, Goodnight Construction site' book at a friend's house. The book has lots of details but in endearing sketches. The author Sherri Duskey Rinker on  How to raise a reader.

If battered books were a sign of reading, my daughter is a scholar.

Enter into the world of Dragons

Why I left Goldman Sachs by Greg Smith

The book has an imersion journalism feel to it like letting you into a reputed culinary school for the first time and show you what goes on inside.

Capital gains tax exemption related to government service

And now deep thoughts about deep thoughts
Kinds of poetry criticism
why write sestinas
Stupid writer tricks

With a stiletto

Caravaggio tore up

His painting of Lazarus

Raised

Modeled by a corpse

Life size, receding

We are all

Raised

after birth

Lazarus in the book Kore caught my eye. Lazarus also happens to be the theme for TH 23

In the movie 'New York' a grille on the pathway reminded me of how a woman's stiletto was stuck in it on the ground. After scale, I have been thinking about what is life size? Other than the magnitude, whatever brings a thing to life, its ness.

This pieced together shard makes you wonder if 'wholeness' of a thing is imaginary like the line. 

What essays do?

Make the reader realise
1. That we gather corners of pages Next page clicker.
2. merry-go-round is cousin of horse ride.
3. Buttery helium balloons cling to roof for about a week.
4. sobs feed uncontrollably on sobs
5. Vending aura is to be blamed for the unintended shopping.
6. Why mom 365 makes cold calls
7. Desiderata Vs Deteriorata

In the 'Portrait Inside my Head' I skipped the landscapes section which seems to have a backstory mentioned in

Reflection and retrospection a pedagogic mystery story

On the necessity of turning oneself into a character

On going a journey
Fight
First Acquaintance Poets
On the pleasure of Hating
The Indian Jugglers
Death of a moth
Essay resources
Prompts
syllabi

On contrariety -
Against nature
Against Interpertration
Against poets
Against love
Against Joie de Vivre

Experiment

The consistent style of the poems in the first section mixing prose and poetry balances the reality and fantasy tones of the medium.

Meme

A helpful review

Propertius

men and gun

All you words

In From A to ZYXt essay, Nicholson Baker writes of an interesting project of reading the words of a dictionary aloud.
Kabul express happens to be the movie where I related journalist to journal. And thence onto difference between journalist and reporter.

I watched Kabul Express last night. First thought, with such beautiful mountains around, why fight instead of hike. When the father meets his daughter after a long time, no words, he places some money on a rock an a paper weight on it. I was thinking how would this seen be rendered in words. would a book do as well as a film in the portrayal of this scene. Extending this in I said to myself essay, Nicholson Baker, shows the power of Indirect thought offered in books.

In Narrow ruled, the author talks of how writing down the lines that grab you in you reading offer a climate to interact with the writing. And there's a caveat to not overdo it. 

When the author says the earplugs keep the world at bay, its reminiscent of the apps that get highlighted on the computer or smart phone screen. 

One Summer. There are many paragraphs in this essay. 

Scale

Miniatures
A tiny lamp with a pull down
in the palm of a lady with her
other fist controlling

The cynosure object

magnifies the fist in foreground
to the back of a person
with the hair in foreground
the erstwhile finger
a hand now

A lamp is always a lamp

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