Letters of Note

Lettersofnote
lies among his gallstones
Why explore space
Sole survivor policy
No words men write can stop the war
for sake of humanity  

Pictures that will inspire you to paint

Elkfest

When a plate breaks

It does you a favour
you can now
paint on to it
break it more
and glue into
forms in your head

What I learnt from cold this time?

1. The common cold and weight loss
2. Muscle pains. Nothing that Tylenol cant cure
3. Teeth ache during cold
4. Shoulder pains

Heimlich's Maneuver

Who knew Heimlich is not as old as Hippocrates. Like the author Heimlich says more people have heard about the maneuver than the right way to apply it. You have read about it and seen it in movies. That comes much later in the book and his life. Before that, how his medical career started and all the amazing medical devices he invented - Heimlich chest drain value, ingenious ways of treating trachoma and saving people from blindness by making do with what little he had, It doesnt end there. Reverse Gastric surgery. Wow, magician of the human body.

Egg in a Tea cup

An Easter egg
in a Muir woods mini cup
Another Easter egg in a
Georgia shot glass

Abstract

In shahid movie there is a line about managing to fight the tide when you might end up at a shore no one has found
Abstract has a way of being true forever keeping your faith in it

Get Serious

Three Pears
Freeze

The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging

How to blog

Summer World: A Season of Bounty

The book goes like a true story of parts of nature.

Wood frogs: Their rituals(awake for only few months a year and still thriving) seem weird. The author doesnt just stop at this observation. He goes about setting up little experiments to prove or dispute the possible explanations.

Bald-Faced Hornet Nests: Hornet paper, a Talisman to ward off all evil predators from a vireo's nest.

The Blues: Why ants dont eat blue butterflies?

Mud Daubers and Behavior: Can you imagine being born in an encasement with food provided?

Artful Diners: Rolled leaf caterpillars and dried leaves with still a bit of green at a spot

The sketches and pictures add to the magic.

Bees

The best I have read about bee like organisms is 'Mud daubers and Behavior' essay in 'Summer Word: A season of Bounty' by Bernd Heinrich. This book 'Bees: learn About Your world Series' is easy to relate for kids too with the playful nature of the two bees Brenda and Bella.
When I began reading from the view point of the bees, I wondered how it would pan out, but the author Trinity Jorden has maintained the consistency of bees and their interest - flowers and pollen. we read about animals like dolphins and even bees communicating in the figure eight but how does that communication look like? It does seem to be fun to be bees even if it gets crowded.
The facts of bees in the later part of the book are fun too, with a choice to start reading based on your interest.
Learnaboutyourworld

John Ashbery Collected French Translations

" Than a hare paused amid the gorse and trembling bellflowers and said its prayer to the rainbow through the spider’s web" in After the flood
Lake Poets
I heard this rhyme before Girls and Boys Come Out To Play. this book has four lines starting from 'Come with a Whoop.."
To Lautreamont
 The cloud distributes its rain impartially

Small space Garden Ideas

Kokedama string garden

Function

Part of Indian life is attending functions. And I thought function. Dictionary came to help with 'any ceremonious public or social gathering or occasion'.

The Secrets of Italy

The secrets of Rome by Corrado Augias