Alive

Saturday, April 27, 2013

The frame

Colouring tubs, decal print on laundry

The green tall frame.
What is it framing?
A frame is like a candle holder
Can a candle holder be the light?

An empty frame
like the glass and paper
slipped

The edges come together
enough to make the
empty space
veenrated

In poetry, what is the frame?
Title?
Have you read the poem with only title?
Space?
Alice walkers space lends to
possibilities of the word on line

Title is like the wall
In 'Moose has Loose poops'
illustration and text meet in
the hang of a tablecloth
Space if frame makes
prose poetry the
frameless painting

In Blueprints, the narrator
'wanted to build a room
around a painting'...'a painting of a woman
adjusting a wall to suit a painting'

The green tall frame
is the painting, and the emptiness
the frame adjusted to suit the painting.

Maya Angelou writing, lying on the carpet, a stack of cards dealt out.

Speaking, Writing

Judy Carter's blog

Appearing on NPR

6 days to giving a ted talk or any inspiring presentation

Safety and Design

In Because I said so, author Ken Jennings writes about 'never play around refrigerators'. It takes us back to the time when refrigerators had a mechanical latch. Now they have magnetic door seal. Thanks GE.
Its always a terror when kids go to the back of the refrigerator where they are placed in the open nstead of the corners that are specially located for the appliances in the US. The way, the stove,oven, fridge and all are attached, you would think the kitchen was born with them.
Refrigeration safety act

What passed down?

10 pieces of wisdom from Because I said So

Some more myths and their truth

Remember the movie Running with Scissors? I never saw it. I didnt know that never run with scissors is an expression. A warning. An admonition.

I remember a friend telling me of an incident where heir son was bleeding an the father held the baby's head back. Ken Jennings, the author of because I said so says not to lean the head back when the nose is bleeding, as it wont stop the bleeding and will force the blood to take other paths like throat or esophagus.

Puzzles and creativity

The cover of the book Imagine has paper quilling.

Benefits of travel

The book has stories of mask tape, barbie, 3M products invention.

Friday, April 26, 2013

Flip Flap fun

Fish Follies (Flip Flap Fun Book)

The page is divided into boxes of flaps. Its fun even for adults to open the flap and compare the top and underneath the flap to reveal an event, a story. It works as find the differences as well as providing a dynamic into the picture with an event happening instead of just the missing or addition of a person or object.

A book with word diarrhea

The book is colourful. You can easily get lost in the details of a Moose's house - A toy bear lying on wheels. The story beats around the bush for a long time. But the things going for this book are the illustrations - if this is your first time into a Moose's house, you will wander in the house, the text is placed on a table cloth hang on one page. Thats good use of space.

While reading the book, I realised why the pediatrecian has it in her office. It has a doctor in it, where the moose's mother calls in. Knowing the author is an MD, it all falls in place, why the informational - what is diarrhea translate into a captivating story.

Conciseness is Walt disney's cinderella book with about half a dozen pages.

Grandma and her pet

Looking at the pictures, you cant but notice grandma's colourful clothes and her colourful character. The grandchild's voice is prominent even with just his shoes showing beneath a curtain when they play hide and seek.Grandma appreciates the grandchild's baking skills even if the muffins turn out hard even for a hammer. This is shown in a thought bubble.

Grandma's pet bird too takes part in the chaos.

daily connoisseur

New research into babies and their comprehension of intention

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

What others are reading

A friend showed me the book she was reading for her book club. Waiting by Ha Jin.

She said China, divorce and I was reminded of an article on divorce and tax in China. When I told her of this, she said that the tax process is straight-forward and independent of dependents.

Show me your diary

Excerpt

Tyvek mask

Attaboy
Rubbish

In Day in Day out, Sedaris shows how sometimes it is better to keep the I out of shinelight. He maintained a diary apart from the one that he was required to show in the class. In a nonfiction class, our professor asked to see the journal we maintained.

The building business

subcontractor

Musings

Buddhist mob is such an anti-thesis as a word. Why do we put so much pressure on a religion to deliver peas(sic). And how can certain religions be targeted as fundamentalists when cultures and societies following a religion are alive. If its not sustainable, they would collapse. The intermingling of cultures will decide the survivor.

Events that happen in a life are like the landscape. if you were in a desert, it would be difficult to travel on the sea of sand with a mono landscape. This 'sea of sand' reminded me that we learnt of camels as ships of the desert. again you dont want the ever shifting sanddunes, then navigation and GPS is hurt. So welcome sadness and happiness.