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Saturday, April 19, 2014

The invisible organ

 

Antibiotics is something which we are very familiar with. I once heard from a colleague that he became lactose intolerant after taking antibiotics. Hearing from others of a 10 day course that the doctor put them on, it seems like they are on a strange journey. NOR too always has an interesting tidit about how much the microbiome in you weighs. Since its an ubiquitous topic, the subject of the book is very easy to relate to second-hand. If you think you havent taken it, then quarter into the book, you will realise its not so with the current food growing techniques.
Author Martin Blaser has used good foreshadowing techniques to maintain the interest of reader in his journey of H Pylori research and results. I do not think the appendix in any book has interested me so much that I had to maintain a bookmark for the appendix too while reading the book.

Shingles - Latency
Differences in microbe sof an infant depending if the birth was natural or Caesarian.
In Rome, women mostly have one kid, something I was surprised to learn at party.
Modern medicine may not be doing your microbiome any favors
Prebiotic nutrition 

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Sports and Games of the Medieval Cultures




Ashta Kashta (Ashta Chemma)
congkak (Vamana gunthalu)

The Matsya Puranam

A Philosophy of Walking



I love walking. A book on it - 'A philosophy of Walking' by Frederic Gros is welcome.
soon I realised that another major focus of the book is writers, my another favourite subject.

Delays in traffic jams got me started walking. Soon I got comfortable enough to stretch my walks to test how far I could go. Even though its such and individual, personal task. The author has made various thinkers and their philosophy of walking as the centerpiece of book. The only author in this book, I knew was big on walking - Thoreau. This book has great vignettes of writers and poets whom you know only so much reading up their bio. They become flesh through their feelings during walking.

"Lastly, you are not alone because when you walk you soon become two". This sums up the self-company of walking. As I kept reading, I kept thinking of the various places that I was hiking and the feelings talked about in the book.

The freedom to be

Reference to A Night Among the Pines of


Gyrovagues
Peyote walk
Homo Viator


Time in the philosphy of Gabriel Marcel

Monday, April 14, 2014

Amber Teething Necklace

When a bowl breaks

In the daze of morning cleaning
I set a washed brown ikea bowl
bought as is
on an inverted black pan
relegated to egg boiling
I woke up to the
sound of shards

Can I put it back
like a wooden egg puzzle
or by Kintsugi 
The golden Repair  

The brown bowl revealed
the ivory within


Kansai Cool



Gratitude
hari kuyo - Festival of broken needles.
Suikinkutsu
Suzo  - ASU has one on campus.
Seeing the forest and the trees

Sunday, April 13, 2014

What Makes This Book so Great

Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda_Triangle Exposed

has theories from two writers of


Route 66







Books referred



Plundered hearts

Letter Composed during a lull in the fighting



I heard of Yellow Birds on NPR but hadnt read it. I am glad to have the chance to read the author in poetry.
Kevin Powers
Washingtonpost

Title poem



Immagine & Poesia



Lidia Chiarelli
IMMAGINE & POESIA

The beginning poems and paintings with Emma Dickinson's
"Forever is composed of nows"
and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's epigrams set a stage that they later ones couldnt share.
The later half of the poems are about visits to the tourist spots in newyork. I was reminded of the time I spent visiting the city.
My NY Times Square poem in Urban Confustions summer issue 2011.