Bloods orbit

If arteries and veins form  Bloods Orbit.
Internal and external metaphors. Different Scale.

Air Alert

The exercise you can do anywhere

Country Living Smart Solutions

white plates with dictionary-like drawings of butterflies and insects.

Wit

“Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good will.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lately I have noticed, that I am talking differently. I dont know my sentence till I say it. Long time ago, I would tell the sentence to myself, to make any correction (for example - not hurting others) but would say as is, not taking the advantage of the exercise.

1. You want to chose a carpet thats neither light nor too dark.
If its dark its depressing
If its light it will  (I said this impromptu) get depressing with stains and all..

2. Daughter crying at summer camp at a different school. She went late. I asked her of anybody else was crying and then made a stupid crack about how if she had reached the school early, she would have been done crying along with the rest.

Earth as poetry

“It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.” 
― Henry Beston

Seafoam is when ocean has seizures.

What would your poem be with 'earth as poetry'?

Stunning photographs

Icebergs look like Giant Penguins

On the right side, can you see

the hind of a bear

One outstretched shadow

brings to light fifty other narrow egrets shadows

Year of the Dunk

ideal workout as finding a DVD you like in video store

Books by weight

In Driving hungry, the author refers to Antiquariat in Berlin where used books are sold by weight. Well, in India too when you are selling away used books to a recyclist, you do that.
In rajasthan, my father and I were shocked to learn that bananas were sold not by the dozen but by weight.

Relax-a-bye Baby: A bedtime guide to help your little one relax and sleep tight

'Relax-a-bye Baby: A bedtime guide to help your little one relax and sleep tight' written by Mimi summers and illustrated by Dana Theveneau uses 'body scan' technique to help the baby go to sleep, with steps that make him/her appreciate and thank the body. The lyrics rhyme. The illustrations have a lot of colour with very few lines and objects befitting the winding down for a good night sleep. Since the book is not just read-aloud but act along, but like the shavasana in yoga, it is an easy, calming read. The book is too long, so you shouldnt need to read all of it. With time, one it becomes a practice, it will be easier to fall asleep, just like meditation gets easier with practice.
The body scan technique can be used even while bathing, so kids will learn naming the body parts and become familiar with the getting to bed routine.

I paused at this sentence

Set on thirty five leafy acres on a hillside
Thatch of curls

The Other "F" Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work

"Bad companies are destroyed by crisis; good companies survive them; great companies are improved by them." - Andy Grove.

In "The Other "F" Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work" by John Danner and Mark Coopersmith, you get to see what the crises can be and how your company size will change your reaction to it, what you can learn from it and how you can remember that to learn from failure as an individual and team.
With Edison and WD-40, we have learnt how taking more risks, we increase our chance of success. But to keep on going ahead like King Bruce, we have to know that we are not going to build that web the first time, learn and improvise from each attempt.
The Failure Value Cycle is about how to mine gold from your crash and burns. With its 7 step process, you create an environment where you accept the ubiquity of failure in a venture, prepare for it, be on the lookout for it, respond, avert and get back on track.
The authors have referred to the latest security debacles of great companies. After each chapter, there is a summary of what are the keypoints. There are questionnaires about how failure is treated in our organisation. There is an encouragement to show off not just your laurels but your albatrosses too.
The best I like are the 3 Rules of learning - from others, by play and thinking and by doing, 'What has to be true' exercise.

You are your worst competitor

The truth waiting in the object

"All truths wait in all things." - Walt Whitman

Jane Hirshfield's interview

one person's tilt of memory
like it were astronomical
and had a course

Spare poem

How would you describe a  Spare poem ?

Not spare like sparse
spare like stepney

Muddy rice and black sake

On reading following Bashos lines

I sit facing muddy sake
and black rice

I thought of the images of Muddy rice and black sake

"Avoid
Adjectives of scale,
, you will love the world more and desire it less.” - Rober Hass paraphrasing Basho.