My Venice and Other Essays

Mysterious Venice  is the source of Brunttei stories
Brunetti Cookbook

How Toddlers Thrive

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Understanding yourself as a parent

Ping pong ball Anemometer

The line of connected balls across the lake
Let you know if the winds blowing
The turbulence of the water
like shifting sanddunes
Is a mountain
a frozen wave of rock

After reading an abstract of IEEE paper on Hot wire Anemometer

Ready for Kindergarten

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The lady at the library who suggested Indigo children asked my daughter about my age. she doesnt knwo the age concept yet.

Indigo Children

A lady at the library told me about Indigo Children.

Ten Busy Brownies

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 Brownie folklore
 This book reminds me of The Elves and the Shoemaker
I didnt know of any brownies other than the ones made to eat until I read this book. These brownies are adorable with their shiny huge buttons which seem magical. The indefinite forms in the illustrations are as mind bending as the acceptance of the brownies existence.
The pages are very engaging. the vines and the cobbled cottages will have you not just counting but story telling and describing.

The Ogres Wife

Little flower yoga for kids

Little flower yoga
Balloon breath

A shirker for a coworker

Is it demotivating to have a shirker in your team? If a company neither appreciates a work of merit neither condemns a shirker, is it in peril? There are always inspiring people and there are not so role models.
While talking about this at a  get together, a mention od Gallup study of the percentage of disengaged employees in the US workforce got me to Disengaged employees cost millions

Plato at the Googleplex

The Meaning of Meaning

Thought experiment of being surgically connected to a famous violionist for nine months.
If you were a violonist or valued music, you wouldnt mind. So it has to be something of value for you to forgo your life. So its the person who has something to give up that has the right to decide if what they are making is of value according to them.

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 

Sports and Games of the Medieval Cultures

Ashta Kashta (Ashta Chemma)
congkak (Vamana gunthalu)

The Matsya Puranam

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

Amber Teething Necklace

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