The Sorcerers and their Apprentices
Hugh Herr
Red Balloon challenge
Amy Farber
Net Galley Challenge
Monday, May 23, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life
Dont kill the birthday girl
Mickey mouse pancakes
Sabina Law
Dr Moreau
Rail Vodka
Midori
Mustum
Stingray cocktail
I know of pollen allergies, over heard of rashes caused by eggplants, read of matrix tests done to identify allergy sources, JLo's allergic reaction in MIL movie but did not know that vaccines are cultured in eggs and hence cannot be used by those with egg allergies.
When I look at the list of things the author Sandra Beasley is allergic to, it can be a nightmare for anyone to think of a non-allergic edible menu. Even if you do, thats all good on paper but what of all the contaminations that you have to take care as to not let even traces of allergens into the food. Such is the tough life that Beasley calls her own but that has turned her into an expert scrutiniser of contents of a prepared food and a foodie.
This book has a timeline of breakthroughs in allergy studies, extra paperwork that parents have to go through for the special care allergic children need, changes in laws and health plans for the allergic, peanutpedia, media perception of those who suffer with allergies, the rise of soy, current research towards solution and the extent to which parents go while taking care of kids with food allergies.
I liked the chapter on ritual of eating, how allergies much like 'to follow' diets wont let you mix well with people. The author's disapproval of a 'allergen-centric' mentality chef inspite of the limited food field available to her, brings out her passion for food even if Sandra-friendly without having to make substitutions. For someone with no 'Achilles heel' in food, the book shows you how having a food allergy dictates a person's life as part of society, more so in teenage life. Beasley's participation in various social gatherings is like Cindrella's clock ticking to 12 anytime.
Declaring ingredients for safety Vs secret recipes.
The book is a good balance of statistics, research studies, food trends, vital role of food in culture and personal experience.
Ferris Bueller's Day off
sunflower margarine
Youth allergies
Red Rover game
Biphasic reaction and Anaphylaxis
Stramonium
Leukotriene
Mast cell
504 plan
IHP
EAP
asthma in school
Nut free mom
Wheat in play doh
Soy Doh
Pyrazine
Allergy service dogs
Flint napping
In every family, at some point you must face your ability to disappoint one another
- Sandra Beasley
National peanut board
Skink
American vegeterian society
The road to Wellville
OAS
peapod
Shout
Allerglobal
Selectwisely
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Jimmy Stewart and his poems
German brown
Beau poem
The top step in the hotel in Junin is mean is a very funny poem.
German brown
Beau poem
The top step in the hotel in Junin is mean is a very funny poem.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
When wanderers case to roam
Alexander von Humboldt
Not sunny Donegal Bay
pony glass
hosta plants
A mosaic of routine and ordinary feelings, things, exotic hike aways, facts about travellers who 'stay put'.
The illustrations of different mud land, different rains with the drops gathering in puddles, sliding down the window or sticking slantly have a momentary quality.
Colorful mittens, shoes, tea cups all urge you to get snug in a comforter with loads of tea.
The illustrations are not all in colour and on paper - Taking a blind cat to a garden so it can sniff the flowers - imagining this leaves the reader with an image of a making of their own.
Alexander von Humboldt
Not sunny Donegal Bay
pony glass
hosta plants
A mosaic of routine and ordinary feelings, things, exotic hike aways, facts about travellers who 'stay put'.
The illustrations of different mud land, different rains with the drops gathering in puddles, sliding down the window or sticking slantly have a momentary quality.
Colorful mittens, shoes, tea cups all urge you to get snug in a comforter with loads of tea.
The illustrations are not all in colour and on paper - Taking a blind cat to a garden so it can sniff the flowers - imagining this leaves the reader with an image of a making of their own.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Table Talk
After Derek Walcott's, Horoscopes for the dead by Billy Collins was a welcome.
The Flaneur reminded me of his consolation poem about a missed vacation. Making the ordinary as preferred as the other.
My favourite poem in this book is Table talk
The Flaneur reminded me of his consolation poem about a missed vacation. Making the ordinary as preferred as the other.
My favourite poem in this book is Table talk
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Harvest poems
Vachel Lindsay
Villon
coin of the realm in Now they bury her again
When the coin reaches the stem of the funnel, it increases in size.
Vachel Lindsay
Villon
coin of the realm in Now they bury her again
When the coin reaches the stem of the funnel, it increases in size.
No prairie up to the stirrups
A Sand County Almanac begins with a strong wake up call like Rachel Carson's of there being no spring and birds.
I was told there'd be cake
I was told there'd be cake by Sloane Crosley
The pony problem starts as a simple cleaning papers after the final breath. The author ties that lose end by getting rid of it and this would be the time where a revelation would have occured to her about the importance of the collection she was going to sever had she not known about her obsession with the collection. People always wonder about how to dispose or to hang to the ancient heirloom things but is that just a case of the gone to face up to their hoardism with meaning only to themselves. Atleast her progeny wont go through that dilemma.
Christmas in July begins with her pyrophylic parents.
The pony problem starts as a simple cleaning papers after the final breath. The author ties that lose end by getting rid of it and this would be the time where a revelation would have occured to her about the importance of the collection she was going to sever had she not known about her obsession with the collection. People always wonder about how to dispose or to hang to the ancient heirloom things but is that just a case of the gone to face up to their hoardism with meaning only to themselves. Atleast her progeny wont go through that dilemma.
Christmas in July begins with her pyrophylic parents.
Wild Mind
When you take care of something, it lives a long time - Roshi
Its a simple fact but needs to be put in words.
My colleague gave me a pot with money plant in it. It seemed like it reached its height of growth. Another coleague thought it needs some soil.
Few days of watering, all the leaves started sprouting new leaves at the stem.Some long weekends, I forget to water it and there goes the growing spree flat. It does amaze me that nutrition any time makes them grow unlike us you have lost the chance after 18.
Its a simple fact but needs to be put in words.
My colleague gave me a pot with money plant in it. It seemed like it reached its height of growth. Another coleague thought it needs some soil.
Few days of watering, all the leaves started sprouting new leaves at the stem.Some long weekends, I forget to water it and there goes the growing spree flat. It does amaze me that nutrition any time makes them grow unlike us you have lost the chance after 18.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Triumph of the city
Its a well heard complaint from home owners that new homes should not be built in this economy, but according to the author Edward Glaeserwhen the demand for a city rises, prices will rise unless more homes are built. When cities restrict new construction, they become more expensive.
Hausmann
John snow's cholera map
why clean water?
Its a well heard complaint from home owners that new homes should not be built in this economy, but according to the author Edward Glaeserwhen the demand for a city rises, prices will rise unless more homes are built. When cities restrict new construction, they become more expensive.
Hausmann
John snow's cholera map
why clean water?
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
While reading Sex and the River Styx, palimpsest in last but fourth line intrigued me.
Palimpsest in The Memory palace
Palimpsest in The Memory palace
After Derek Walcott's, Horoscopes for the dead by Billy Collins was a welcome.
The Flaneur reminded me of his poem about a mised vacation. Making the ordinary as preferred as the other.
The Flaneur reminded me of his poem about a mised vacation. Making the ordinary as preferred as the other.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Sex and the river Styx
Gooseneck lighting
nattering
cambium juice
Polliwog
Windthrow
Margay cats
Aoudad
uncosseted elk or mule deer
rassling a steer
Green up
sibilation
Tessitura
Fatback
Abyssinian chronicles
Wole Soyinka
Elechi Amadi
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Okot p'Bitek
Peter Abrahams
nostrums
Shadbush
Grim Reaper
The method of nature
The Broken balance poem
The Broken balance article
Thoreau
When I confused Edward Hoagland with Edward Hirsch as a poet, 'Sex and the River Styx' became my to-read book. I am glad about the mix-up.
A look at the contents, 'Small Silences', 'Last Call', 'A Last look around', 'Endgame', 'The Glue is Gone' - this cant be good.
"Rising land of course will lift our spirits too".
"the immensity of winds, stars and trees, the infinity of unlobotomized animal species, the intricacy of landscapes, the galaxy of scents and shapes in natural creation, that we are losing, or just no longer sense or see". The author's lament on the status of man-nature relationship, the loss of adventure and mystery in the exploration, is the common thread through most of the chapters. His life and aging experiences have shaped his views on this part where "We do our turn, hang upside down or somersault or walk a wire, then bow out of the limelight."
Ascribing pinnae, whiskers, antenae to humans, the author maintains the continuity he feels between the woods and the house. The book is full of striking metaphors like planetary Lou Gehrig's disease, a cross-stitch of mercenary and sexual greed.
A proud Earthian who wishes to become a limestone if he can remain affixed forever to earth, in this age when we are planning for a dream vacation to other planets. The authors views do make us sit up and ask ourselves if there is anything we can do. If corn for fuel is obscenity to the author, what might he think of the test tube meat?
Thinking about this book, I wondered what the man who fell the first tree felt.
I have my hands on Hoagland's earlier book, 'Notes from the century before' - A journal from British Columbia.
Gooseneck lighting
nattering
cambium juice
Polliwog
Windthrow
Margay cats
Aoudad
uncosseted elk or mule deer
rassling a steer
Green up
sibilation
Tessitura
Fatback
Abyssinian chronicles
Wole Soyinka
Elechi Amadi
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Okot p'Bitek
Peter Abrahams
nostrums
Shadbush
Grim Reaper
The method of nature
The Broken balance poem
The Broken balance article
Thoreau
When I confused Edward Hoagland with Edward Hirsch as a poet, 'Sex and the River Styx' became my to-read book. I am glad about the mix-up.
A look at the contents, 'Small Silences', 'Last Call', 'A Last look around', 'Endgame', 'The Glue is Gone' - this cant be good.
"Rising land of course will lift our spirits too".
"the immensity of winds, stars and trees, the infinity of unlobotomized animal species, the intricacy of landscapes, the galaxy of scents and shapes in natural creation, that we are losing, or just no longer sense or see". The author's lament on the status of man-nature relationship, the loss of adventure and mystery in the exploration, is the common thread through most of the chapters. His life and aging experiences have shaped his views on this part where "We do our turn, hang upside down or somersault or walk a wire, then bow out of the limelight."
Ascribing pinnae, whiskers, antenae to humans, the author maintains the continuity he feels between the woods and the house. The book is full of striking metaphors like planetary Lou Gehrig's disease, a cross-stitch of mercenary and sexual greed.
A proud Earthian who wishes to become a limestone if he can remain affixed forever to earth, in this age when we are planning for a dream vacation to other planets. The authors views do make us sit up and ask ourselves if there is anything we can do. If corn for fuel is obscenity to the author, what might he think of the test tube meat?
Thinking about this book, I wondered what the man who fell the first tree felt.
I have my hands on Hoagland's earlier book, 'Notes from the century before' - A journal from British Columbia.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Two poetry bird titles
White egrets by Derek Walcott
Eumaeus
Manchineel shadows
Recanati
Leopardi
Canaletto
Hayrick
Soutane
I found this book very difficult to read.
Swan by Mary Oliver
Morning Glory cloud
Tom Dancer's gift of a whitebark pine cone
essential sparrow and necessary toad
Eumaeus
Manchineel shadows
Recanati
Leopardi
Canaletto
Hayrick
Soutane
I found this book very difficult to read.
Swan by Mary Oliver
Morning Glory cloud
Tom Dancer's gift of a whitebark pine cone
essential sparrow and necessary toad
Monday, May 2, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Found Fount
yesterday I found a fountain in the oddest of places. I was waiting at a gas station that I usually go to. Its next to an auto service station. In the boom of people walking in and out with their quick reasons to stop on the go, was a weak fountain surrounded by huge stones. I was reading of skating from a soprstwriting book.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Parenting and eating
Melanie Rehak mentions a baby crawling backward first in Eating for Beginners.
In the introduction, the author describes her confusion in choosing what to feed her child with so many ways to go as in parenting itself in a rather heightened emergency way of hitting a wall.
Lowboy
M F K Fisher mentioned in maya Angelou's book Great food, all day long along with Elizabeth David, Jessica Harris, Margaret Visser, Jacques Pepin as writers who loved food.
Wyatt Prunty's A Winter's Tale
In the introduction, the author describes her confusion in choosing what to feed her child with so many ways to go as in parenting itself in a rather heightened emergency way of hitting a wall.
Lowboy
M F K Fisher mentioned in maya Angelou's book Great food, all day long along with Elizabeth David, Jessica Harris, Margaret Visser, Jacques Pepin as writers who loved food.
Wyatt Prunty's A Winter's Tale
nature looking out from the cheekbones of EberHart
The Groundhog. Compare this experience with William Stafford's 'Traveling through the Dark'.
Eberhart's line ' my stick had done nor good nor harm'- The stick like stylus to turn the words up and down, in and around the coils to see what one side wont reveal, the other hides.
Compare them both with The Wellfleet Whale of Stanley Kunitz.
cute collection likeWWF cards of poets and their poems.
I like this poetry site
I am looking for 'the Swallows return' by Richard Eberhart. His line 'death is available to birds as to man in all weathers'.
Gnat on my paper. Its usually spider on my paper. Tiny ones. The penultimate one I saw had 8 legs with symmetry around the central axis. The ultimate one had a leg sticking out extended like a long-legged? It was light brown in color with dark spots at equal intervals. I was looking for the kinds of spiders and found that the legs dont have to be symmetrical. One species has pairs of legs grouped like a cross.
21st century man with his poem tampered and Long term suffering with 'time's up, put your pens down'.
Correspondence
I am looking for 'Coast of Maine ' poem too. Eberhart has written more on Maine
Design y Rober Frost.
PS: For title refer to The hard structure of the world poem by EberHart.
Wellfleet oysters in Fannie's Last supper
Eberhart's line ' my stick had done nor good nor harm'- The stick like stylus to turn the words up and down, in and around the coils to see what one side wont reveal, the other hides.
Compare them both with The Wellfleet Whale of Stanley Kunitz.
cute collection likeWWF cards of poets and their poems.
I like this poetry site
I am looking for 'the Swallows return' by Richard Eberhart. His line 'death is available to birds as to man in all weathers'.
Gnat on my paper. Its usually spider on my paper. Tiny ones. The penultimate one I saw had 8 legs with symmetry around the central axis. The ultimate one had a leg sticking out extended like a long-legged? It was light brown in color with dark spots at equal intervals. I was looking for the kinds of spiders and found that the legs dont have to be symmetrical. One species has pairs of legs grouped like a cross.
21st century man with his poem tampered and Long term suffering with 'time's up, put your pens down'.
Correspondence
I am looking for 'Coast of Maine ' poem too. Eberhart has written more on Maine
Design y Rober Frost.
PS: For title refer to The hard structure of the world poem by EberHart.
Wellfleet oysters in Fannie's Last supper
Monday, April 25, 2011
William Stafford
Josephine Jacobsen
Larches in Lines to a Poet
Last night I wondered about a favorite poet. Yu can always find a poem of a poet that you like but stafford's most poems are all likeable.
on writing A poem a Day
The current under the frozen river
corn and sunlight in Level Light
pattern, sequence, recognize, breaking line, darkness deepening like running water cutting the earthA Ritual to Read to Each Other
Traveling through the dark and more from One Poets Notes.
On Muse
Larches in Lines to a Poet
Last night I wondered about a favorite poet. Yu can always find a poem of a poet that you like but stafford's most poems are all likeable.
on writing A poem a Day
The current under the frozen river
corn and sunlight in Level Light
pattern, sequence, recognize, breaking line, darkness deepening like running water cutting the earthA Ritual to Read to Each Other
Traveling through the dark and more from One Poets Notes.
On Muse
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Delhi
Author Sam Miller sees ring roads as carotid arteries in his book Delhi- Adventures in a Megacity. Yesterday I saw a medium sized white, narrow oval plate with a navy blue ribbon through the slits in the plate that was neatly tied in the ribbon like the pink lacing through the white holds in this unhappy man's neck.
Poet Foxy
In Literature Alive, The Golden Touch story of Midas's daughter turning into statue is Nathaniel Hawthorne's spin.
Raisin in the sun movie
My Last Duchess
esculent in There was a child went forth
Like this stack of Bremen Town musicians, yesterday while looking for a gift I found a stack of a pig on a something on a cow.
Fox in The Little Prince of Antoine de saint Exupery is a poet.
Raisin in the sun movie
My Last Duchess
esculent in There was a child went forth
Like this stack of Bremen Town musicians, yesterday while looking for a gift I found a stack of a pig on a something on a cow.
Fox in The Little Prince of Antoine de saint Exupery is a poet.
New
Luke Johnson
I think I saw Two tailed swallow tail today. Must be the trees around.
Dik Dik looks like an alien or he/she seen an alien.
Brocket Deer
Calamian Deer
I think I saw Two tailed swallow tail today. Must be the trees around.
Dik Dik looks like an alien or he/she seen an alien.
Brocket Deer
Calamian Deer
What business?
An inmate tells that he is in A business. When asked about it, he says he is not in the A business. He is not even in the B or C or D business. Reminded me of Billy Collins
Bread and the Knife poem
Bread and the Knife poem
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Corposant,
Coffles
in Middle passage
What I remember the writers telling me when I was young
eldritch -eerie in the The Diver
Hurdy Gurdy in Homage to the Empress of Blues
Coffles
in Middle passage
What I remember the writers telling me when I was young
eldritch -eerie in the The Diver
Hurdy Gurdy in Homage to the Empress of Blues
Beat
The beginning lines
The plain was grassy, wild and bare reminded me of The woods are lovely, dark and deep poem. Somehow the lovely does not fit there, I'd like it better with lonely. Similar one There was atime when meadow, stream and grass.
The tabor in this poem, with tom tom reminds me of seven caveats in May by Maxine Kumin.
Another beginning line with a Heavy hand is Sometimes in the heat of the snow
The plain was grassy, wild and bare reminded me of The woods are lovely, dark and deep poem. Somehow the lovely does not fit there, I'd like it better with lonely. Similar one There was atime when meadow, stream and grass.
The tabor in this poem, with tom tom reminds me of seven caveats in May by Maxine Kumin.
Another beginning line with a Heavy hand is Sometimes in the heat of the snow
Friday, April 22, 2011
Menippus
His work nekyia or necromancy.
There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbors baby is scary fairy tales.
I liked the 'Incident at Sokolniki' story. Even dead people seem to need the last rite done well that they are haunted by the lack of observance of the rite.
There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbors baby is scary fairy tales.
I liked the 'Incident at Sokolniki' story. Even dead people seem to need the last rite done well that they are haunted by the lack of observance of the rite.
References
Comparing mom's multi tasking to a thousand armed Guanyin in Years of Red Dust- stories of Shanghai by Qiu Xiaolong
The stories are such that you read them in one go.
All the Chinese proverbs and sayings fit in right well except for two references of River styx and Furies.
A guest comparing his family crab dinner to the one in
Dream of the Red Chamber
Legend of white snake
Walls have ears. Indians and Chinese too have this saying.
Chinese have Five Evils. Different from Sikh'sFive Evils.
poet Bai Juyi
The stories are such that you read them in one go.
All the Chinese proverbs and sayings fit in right well except for two references of River styx and Furies.
A guest comparing his family crab dinner to the one in
Dream of the Red Chamber
Legend of white snake
Walls have ears. Indians and Chinese too have this saying.
Chinese have Five Evils. Different from Sikh'sFive Evils.
poet Bai Juyi
Hark to the Lark
Bald Coot and Screaming Loon even though compiled in a question answer format, it is not academic, thanks to the informal tone of the Niall Edworthy
Tube noses
Fieldfare
Dovekie
The book is about birds and what they eat(or what we should or should not feed them), where they live and all the other things they do. He degrades them in the beginning to put them on the pedestal after the introduction.
I have read a Q&A book on birds before that didnt sustain my readership for too long. Compared with that, this book is an eye candy with accurate, lyric and funny illustrations. Its an ear candy too with the poems in it. My favourie is Dixon Lanier Merrit's poem in which he rhymes pelican with '(his bill can hold more than his)belican' and '(But i'm damned if I see how the) helican'.
If you are a beginner, you will learn a lot about how the birds 'flying' rules all of its other activities - molting, what organs it can or cannot have. For a bird with scavenging habits, you cannot have feathers on your neck. The most amazing fact to know for me was the duration of day that it takes to make an egg. Again its the need to fly for food. Bird mommy gets no maternity leave. That they discard their nitrogen in a way very differet from mammals which again goes back to how it cant bloat itself so that it can fly. Dusting. Anting and many other phenomenon.
If you have not done birdwatching before, theres a how to.
With so much going on about air controllers caught sleeping while on duty, a patrol crane with a stone held in its feet might have a way out for waking when you fall asleep.
When the author describes how the birds drink water, from what I have seen or remember, I think they posess a soaking ability. I will have to watch more keenly and look for them to hold their head back to gulp it down.
If you are not a beginner, still there are many new things that will you make you wonder about the bird world. That swifts cant walk very well like other birds, having chosen the fast life. The technique of Albatroses and others with their tubenoses that desalinate might help us too. If you knew all this about birds, there are still many quotes, poems and anecdotes to enjoy. The best i like is by Emily Dickinson - 'I hope you love birds,too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven'.
I have added a new item to my wish list. To watch a mass migration.
Beauty brains
Tube noses
Fieldfare
Dovekie
The book is about birds and what they eat(or what we should or should not feed them), where they live and all the other things they do. He degrades them in the beginning to put them on the pedestal after the introduction.
I have read a Q&A book on birds before that didnt sustain my readership for too long. Compared with that, this book is an eye candy with accurate, lyric and funny illustrations. Its an ear candy too with the poems in it. My favourie is Dixon Lanier Merrit's poem in which he rhymes pelican with '(his bill can hold more than his)belican' and '(But i'm damned if I see how the) helican'.
If you are a beginner, you will learn a lot about how the birds 'flying' rules all of its other activities - molting, what organs it can or cannot have. For a bird with scavenging habits, you cannot have feathers on your neck. The most amazing fact to know for me was the duration of day that it takes to make an egg. Again its the need to fly for food. Bird mommy gets no maternity leave. That they discard their nitrogen in a way very differet from mammals which again goes back to how it cant bloat itself so that it can fly. Dusting. Anting and many other phenomenon.
If you have not done birdwatching before, theres a how to.
With so much going on about air controllers caught sleeping while on duty, a patrol crane with a stone held in its feet might have a way out for waking when you fall asleep.
When the author describes how the birds drink water, from what I have seen or remember, I think they posess a soaking ability. I will have to watch more keenly and look for them to hold their head back to gulp it down.
If you are not a beginner, still there are many new things that will you make you wonder about the bird world. That swifts cant walk very well like other birds, having chosen the fast life. The technique of Albatroses and others with their tubenoses that desalinate might help us too. If you knew all this about birds, there are still many quotes, poems and anecdotes to enjoy. The best i like is by Emily Dickinson - 'I hope you love birds,too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven'.
I have added a new item to my wish list. To watch a mass migration.
Beauty brains
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Mariposa
Blue Morpho
Laparus Doris
shoemaker
Bamboo page
Nymphalid
owl butterfly
Southern cattleheart
swallow tail
from the world of butterflies
A recent dream of mine had a butterfly with a beautiful pattern just on one side.
Laparus Doris
shoemaker
Bamboo page
Nymphalid
owl butterfly
Southern cattleheart
swallow tail
from the world of butterflies
A recent dream of mine had a butterfly with a beautiful pattern just on one side.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Notes to the reader
1. If there is a meeting of people, then there is going to be parting.
If Dream interpretation is the popular genre in prison libraries, what is the popuular dream?
If Dream interpretation is the popular genre in prison libraries, what is the popuular dream?
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
What we hoard
When Graham finds a stash of biblical notes in Legacy of a Pack Rat, I didnt realise the significance not knowing that Billy Graham was an evangelist.
Choice
What element of myth is picked from the myth orchard for your wreath, brocade?
Ichor in Death by Aesthetics poem by Mona Van Duyn
words like chirreting,unchinking logs,
Ichor in Death by Aesthetics poem by Mona Van Duyn
words like chirreting,unchinking logs,
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