They Jangle

In pockets, lockers,
at the end of lanyards
on necks
in hands, in cars
on doors, in hands


Looking at the guy opening
the magazine stand to refill
it at Tempe Public Library

Pair of Words

In the DISC class, I was interested in pairing of words - Situational Hearing.

In NPR, I hear of  'emotional shorthand'.

“Music is the shorthand of emotion” - Leo Tolstoy

Ongoingness: The End of Diary

Key Performance Indicators for Dummies

Key Performance Indicators for Dummies is a good book to get your rookies knowledgeable on what is KPI and what KPQ (KP questions) will get you to the performance you want. The difference between leading and lagging indicators is a good one to know, even the focus on the word indicator in KPIs is essential. While the author does these kind of highlighting and contextualizing well, the dos and dont when it comes to KPIs, the book starts to feel like many booklets put together, trying to reel in different departments together. Yes finance is where all the numbers are but it is this cross functional jump, that makes the book look like a motley. I was very interested with terms like KPQ, EVA- Economic Value Added but after a while there were too many terms (I remember reading about NPS - Net Promoter Score, but cant recall which book), that made it seem like KPI should have been a small section under an umbrella title that would tie the book all in one. Something to appreciate in this varied terms definition are the examples, which make all the acronyms very easy to understand. Keep this book under the 'Basics of Business' folder.

Thinking Like a Mountain

is a popular interesting title.

Thinking like a mountain

Out of the Blue

The first idiom I remember in English is broke down. In 'Out of the Blue' I learnt some new idioms like ticked pink, shrinking violet, diffrent horse. The illustrations are minimal but the colour is deep spread.

An Idiom is a very powerful thing. in English, it first happened to me in sixth grade in a lesson called 'I met a Bushman'. It was the narrator saying his car 'broke down'.
'Out of the Blue - A Book of Color Idioms and Silly Pictures' is a great creative book for kids. I myself walk out of the book with few new idioms - tickled pink, yellow bellied and so on.
The illustrations are neat and the colour is emphatic.
There is a good mix of culture - brown bag. Red tape and Red letters illustrations are different from what I have in my mind.
(NetGalley)

Its  a great idea to make a page with a color Idiom and ask kids to guess it or give an idiom and ask them to illustrate it.

Inspiration for sketching

Legs and a hand

all pointing in the

same direction

three eighth of

an octopus

Sun Symbols in Phoenix

When your skin
is burning
and stepping out
of the car feels like
you are entering
heaven
should the bridges
on freeway have
sun symbols or
umbrellas?

Contact Entrance

Contact Entrance Wound
as opposed to Exit Wound

From dictionary.com

noun

1.

the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.

Its contact when its

things or people

its wound when one 

is a thing and another

a people

Entrance Vs Exit wounds

Networking for Nerds

pool story

Why VCs invest in serial entrepreneurs?
public speaking
apply for award

Poetry mags through your library

Your library national poetry month

Story to Research

From New Kitten to Bull Frog to Grey Kitten to Grey tree frog

Alternative to Greyhound

People who took greyhound said, "Dont".

Networking outside

How to network outside your company
How leaders create and use networks

Empathy and teaching

I realised that I try to think that for a person to learn something new, will need time to get adjusted to oit, to the extent that I might never let them try the new task. My husband has a knack of getting others to become self independent.