Eddie Osterland

Greeting card

A Hallmark greeting card with 3D daffodil and stem wound in green.

A letter says
what you would
otherwise
say in person
when you meet

Writers in debt

 Elegy Owed by Bob Hicok

In Pilgrimage, the poet says
" I put birds
in mos poems and rivers, put rivers
in most birds and thinking, put the dead
in many sentences..."

Yesterday lunch time, I saw a not so humpty dumpty egg fallen on the tar, broken a bit. There was something inside. I went in to get a paper to lift it onto. My husband looked at it and concluded that the little  bird inside was dead.

In 'Soundscape', the poet asks
".. wondered why we call it
playing catch and not playing throw"
I think I know the answer for this one. I was teaching my kid to play ball. In the rhythm of throwing and catching it was hard to tell whose action I was shouting out, mine or hers. my throw is for her to catch. It is easier for kids to catch, than throw at first. From the kids point of view, its always a catch game. And if they miss, like one kid put it, you missed (you missed throwing the ball in such a way that it could be caught).

In 'One of those things we say', the poet says
"breathe and throw a party for the house when the mortgage
has lost its teeth."
What a time to look forward to.

In The Missing,
" a different girl with her own
missing eyes, her own beetle
in her mouth. ..."
With 'her own', spilling from the previous line, the poem gets surreal, presents a world to each person, living and dead, a world just and unjust.

In 'Elegy to unnamed sources'
"I've tasted your ashes twice, once today,
once tomorrow"
Visceral.

The abundance of baskin robbins scoop incites austerity.
In 'Very small bible' Jesus with amnesia walks around the dead.
The order of things is a nice swap poem.

Hyacinth cookie in Speaking American

Exercise: In Sunny, infinte chance of rain, the poet uses the happy dancing couple on wedding cake as the stage for the  real life events. Poignant. Look if any of your situations can use metaphors to better reflect the happening.

Cards fixed to spokes in Moving day. Enhanced bicycle. The only decorations that I can think of bicycles in India - beads on spokes, pom poms. Watch the sound made by clipped cards on bicycles on youtube.

I thought Making it in poetry would be like How to succeed in Po Biz.

Writing

Reading to write

Seize the moment

Bright Glass

I saw the sun
in the building
at
the neighbor's
stopped for tea break
at sunset
the shine through their
kitchen
window


While getting into the car, I noticed the neighbors window was aflame.
At Chandler Library, there was a board for National poetry month. Just the opportunity to  put the moment into words. Only while writing it down did I anthopomorphize the sun.
And windows are so different. Here its glassed. In India its wooden.

Crossing designs

The math of a sunshade folding down.





What happens when you cross a sunshade with a goal net. You get goalee.
You might have seen how the sun shades fold into a small circle. Thats nothing compared to how the goalee folds up. Its portable, light, easy to setup. It comes with its bag that can be worn on the side. Easy to transport. And when its not in use, it stashed away carefully.

Turnabout night

A colleague told me of the Night at the zoo that his child's school had. I was thinking of the animals in their habitat and if it had to be a turnabout night to make it fun for the animals too.

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.

Bespokeinnovations
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