Join the wheelbarrow

Organic gardener

Author Jeanne Nolan has transformed from an inaccessible person on a communal farm to a person who makes the organic dream accessible for the common people. Her story of extremes is healing without unsettling the reader. She keeps the reader at a remove, protecting them from the dark times she faced in life but teaches us all about the nourishing farming. Her journey is also an example of sustainable business.
You can grow vegetables in compost
The link between ADHD and non-organic food.
List of helpful resources to maintain an organic garden.

Feel the texture of Curly's friends

Curlys get to meet his friends and tell them by the texture of their skin.

Her articles

A frozen time in crystal cube

When the author writes, her mom was accepted only by ASU. I felt like I was reading my story. Having been in Tempe and close to Apache Blvd, I was instantly hooked to the book. Even though I am a bee for food, this book had stronger currents of family relations. There are many dishes and recipes but none stick in your mind. More than food, its about the tug of war with desire - for food - food you cant have, food that makes you fat or thin. The desire extends to love, happiness.
I havent read the author's fiction, but the non-fiction does show her as a child feeling her independent self in her 40s. The author recreates all the places she's lived in and the places that left an effect on her. You can imagine the 3 week vacation on an island with the breezeway. It must have something to do with her fiction skills.
In a very Anna Quindlen `Lots of Candles, plenty of cake', Christensen's memoir is written from that place of warmth physically and emotionally, where one is content with life thus far.

Cave art

A very interesting exercise in this book is to extend cave art to other animals and other drawings like seascapes, landscapes.

In poetry, you could create poems with an erstwhile standard.

Navajo sand painting

The non poets school

Boreas

Why I am not a painter

Sculpture and water

Green Galleon

GUNSHOT LANDSCAPE reminds me of Preservation woods

John Von bergen - Grande Comore place.

A silicon wafer clamped at a desk. I looked close, I didnt see anything for a sec and then it morphed into a ball. Duo made me recall that incident.

Weidenblume

i have been to California scenario after seeing the more than 200 stores in costa Mesa mall.

Big bambu https://www.

History by another name

Paper carousel

How to make paper carousel, eiffel tower, birds, christmas ornaments from different parts of the world.

Book tip

memoir tips

The story must be told

It is incredible when a person gives up everything for helping others. There are inequalities in many spheres of life. But Dr Ruit says that saints and crooks are same to him. He treats everyone in need.
When I saw 'Three Cups of Tea' on the cover of 'Second suns', there was a small doubt in my head. But I spoke to Nepali neighbours and they knew about the Miracle Doctor Ruit who is touched upon as God by those he offered sight with his 7 minute cataract surgery. The way Ruit and Sanduk, first and last names are used independently in consecutive sentences, it was confusing at times. His partner Dr Tabin is a dare devil.
The author has started with the backgrounds of both doctors and the overlap of the Venn diagram which ends in the eye center. When one doctor talks about the other, it seemed like the interviews with chopped contestants as the contest goes on.
Because of the thick volume of the book, I have to wonder how much more meaningful it would be to read the whole story from the perspective of the doctors.
I am a foodie. So I was happy to come across lotus root pakora and butter tea (My neighbour says this is mostly had in the Himalayas).
There are bits and pieces of history in the background with 2001 Nepali royal family tragedy (I recalled it from the news cast in India), Sikkim history.

Dignifying pantoum

The Late Parade by Adam Fitzgerald

Strange cinema poem somehow clicks when a poem should be written in a Pantoum form. Like When Harry met Sally?

Ormolu

Definition poem

'To reveal the rose

that the rose obscures'

These lines make you think of the insides of a rose and not just as the 3D box that we see it as.

In 'Eden and After', the poet makes you think of all the things that you do and how were they when you did the for the first time and when Adam/Eve did any of the verbs, named nouns for the first time. The poems have a freshness of a rock upturned to see the unknown world underneath it.