A crash course to Creativity

Stanford has an online course A crash course on creativity taught by the author Tina Seelig, author of the book A crash course on creativity. Interesting ecorner.

In the book, the author asks us to come up with as many uses for a paper clip or piece of paper.

Bespokeinnovations
Reading like a historian
Powers of 10

While searching for , I found

and started reading of Chindogu on the net. Which is what the next para of the book is about.

Hobby horse
TRIZ

Make space

Reading early

Read this 'Goodnight, Goodnight Construction site' book at a friend's house. The book has lots of details but in endearing sketches. The author Sherri Duskey Rinker on  How to raise a reader.

If battered books were a sign of reading, my daughter is a scholar.

Enter into the world of Dragons

Why I left Goldman Sachs by Greg Smith

The book has an imersion journalism feel to it like letting you into a reputed culinary school for the first time and show you what goes on inside.

Capital gains tax exemption related to government service

And now deep thoughts about deep thoughts
Kinds of poetry criticism
why write sestinas
Stupid writer tricks

With a stiletto

Caravaggio tore up

His painting of Lazarus

Raised

Modeled by a corpse

Life size, receding

We are all

Raised

after birth

Lazarus in the book Kore caught my eye. Lazarus also happens to be the theme for TH 23

In the movie 'New York' a grille on the pathway reminded me of how a woman's stiletto was stuck in it on the ground. After scale, I have been thinking about what is life size? Other than the magnitude, whatever brings a thing to life, its ness.

This pieced together shard makes you wonder if 'wholeness' of a thing is imaginary like the line. 

What essays do?

Make the reader realise
1. That we gather corners of pages Next page clicker.
2. merry-go-round is cousin of horse ride.
3. Buttery helium balloons cling to roof for about a week.
4. sobs feed uncontrollably on sobs
5. Vending aura is to be blamed for the unintended shopping.
6. Why mom 365 makes cold calls
7. Desiderata Vs Deteriorata

In the 'Portrait Inside my Head' I skipped the landscapes section which seems to have a backstory mentioned in

Reflection and retrospection a pedagogic mystery story

On the necessity of turning oneself into a character

On going a journey
Fight
First Acquaintance Poets
On the pleasure of Hating
The Indian Jugglers
Death of a moth
Essay resources
Prompts
syllabi

On contrariety -
Against nature
Against Interpertration
Against poets
Against love
Against Joie de Vivre

Experiment

The consistent style of the poems in the first section mixing prose and poetry balances the reality and fantasy tones of the medium.

Meme

A helpful review

Propertius

men and gun

All you words

In From A to ZYXt essay, Nicholson Baker writes of an interesting project of reading the words of a dictionary aloud.
Kabul express happens to be the movie where I related journalist to journal. And thence onto difference between journalist and reporter.

I watched Kabul Express last night. First thought, with such beautiful mountains around, why fight instead of hike. When the father meets his daughter after a long time, no words, he places some money on a rock an a paper weight on it. I was thinking how would this seen be rendered in words. would a book do as well as a film in the portrayal of this scene. Extending this in I said to myself essay, Nicholson Baker, shows the power of Indirect thought offered in books.

In Narrow ruled, the author talks of how writing down the lines that grab you in you reading offer a climate to interact with the writing. And there's a caveat to not overdo it. 

When the author says the earplugs keep the world at bay, its reminiscent of the apps that get highlighted on the computer or smart phone screen. 

One Summer. There are many paragraphs in this essay. 

Scale

Miniatures
A tiny lamp with a pull down
in the palm of a lady with her
other fist controlling

The cynosure object

magnifies the fist in foreground
to the back of a person
with the hair in foreground
the erstwhile finger
a hand now

A lamp is always a lamp

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If you have like faded art - the one which seems to have a clear pattern overriding a nondescript background - here are the techniques to create them.


Darlene olivia mcelroy
Sandra duran wilson

Still in 20th century

Period poetry
Where poetry meets reality for the current generation readers, having read of or being able to relate to the events in this century.

Moon makes anybody poetic. yesterday, a friend told me about the moon -lunatic link.
Another prose writer goes poetic with vultures. Natural history
'The old Moscow woman' by Ralph Gustafson
Tar by C.K.Williams - solid form
Cumberland station - rich form
The Water Diviner -(dwr is Welsh for water)
Space opera in Consider Phlebas in Waste land limericks
Cabinet paintings -Hillard in In Modern dress - lengthy inquisition of a worm
History. the book adds a footnote that graham's rhetorical question 'who/will tell the children/fairytales?' indirectly restates Theodor W. Adorno's dictum that to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
While reading 'the Quick an the dead' by David Constantine, pitting the Pompeii against Hiroshima-Nagasaki, it is a wonder that poetry existed in those times or in the Anne Frank time or the one about Rutherford.
test-tube baby pioneer a Meliorist? from Cousin coat.
Down by the station, early in the morning - form , also a song
Zoom can be a primer to look from the outside.
Parenthood and other funny poems
When I grow up - also a song
Timur the lame - poets poem
A fable





Exercise:
The curiosity shop gets as surreal as it can. Take the tangent to any oridnary occurence in your poem.
Cinnamon peeler. stories of Profession's ramifications.

To read

orion article

How to critique a memoir

Light poem with synonyms from rogets thesaurus

Personality poets: Yeti poet and  poet crab

Dear Superman

Ten oxhearding pictures
sonku
God poem

definition

Grandma we are poets

She died in peas

She found the doors of heaven by the smell of honey. After having her customary tea, her day and life felt unmoored to time. The only time when she ever considered giving up tea was post visit to the dentist, imagining tea-stained cup.
She is survived by her pantry and pots. Cake decorating kit that she never used. Assortment of passed down gadgets.
She never liked frying. Her husband found it ironical that she should love murukulu. It wasnt about fried vs not fried. It was savoury vs sweet. She watched what she ate when it came to sweets.

What would your food obit say?

Watching the world

Jim Rogers - Author of Street Smarts and Adventure Capitalist

Short selling
If only 25 investments...
He bought Lockheed when it was a $
concentrate on what you know
Cincinnatus
JimRogers investments

Taming the market

Sell side analyst

The trade market is rife with numbers. When the brain is provided that much data, it sees all kinds of patterns in it. Peter Phams ’The Big Trade’ is about moving away from the data, trying to box the whole market vagaries in a model. The author provides us a way of reaching a percentage of confidence regarding the upward or downward trend of the market from the past performance, trying to simplify the data, following Auction Market theory.

Without getting too lost, the author uses small sets of data to prove his point on watching the performance of a company stock and boxing it.

The techniques in the book are easily adoptable.

Alphavn

The happening floor

Questions while reading the book:

Can I start a bank?

It follows
Secondary Market offering
bond funds to avoid as rates rise

Book discussion questions

After the awards, talk to Edison too

You might recognize these Loomi light from the mall. Have you seen Urbio wall garden on shark tank or 'The Chew'? What do these products have in common. They have used Kickstarter.

Don Steinberg has written The Kickstarter Handbook about the success stories. All success stories are not made the same. This becomes apparent in the Frantic Finish chapter with graphs showing the percentage of goal met as the deadline approaches. You have been approached with the tortoise telling you how far its come and how much of the way is left.




The author supplies most of the information of setting the goal, pledges and rewards (like cold water or baked good sale donations), through interviews and quotes from the successful kickstarters.

If you like ideas, their presentation or implementation, you will like this book.

10 things to know about kickstarting a book

Getting the baby to say Oui

French Twist by Catherine Crawford

A humorous book leaning more to the differences in the American and French birthing-mothering cultures (frowned upon baby showers). It pans out in the order of pregnancy - no-nos from ob-gyns, big list of shopping for the baby .

A mom on NPR  about an experiment on her kid, letting him play with ipad resulted in a natural decay of interest with time. Author Catherine Crawford allows them only on weekends. A rule is set. So kids already know the zones.

Author's way will give parents time and kids are actually on their best behaviour to spend time with adults. Sounds too good.

Article that made me want to look up writer

An article on simplicity of a product by the authors of  'Simple: Conquering the crisis of complexity'.

I have heard of an OXO product but not this one with its no need to pour out or in several times to measure the exact amount.

Target's Clearrx

Series of get over for babies

Reading the book made me feel like it was a mini pacifiers anonymous.

Fiction in storytelling

While the story is about sharing, it is kind of sad if the fish has to tear away its permanent scales to have friends. May be the story could start with the fish putting on the colourful scales somewhere, so it is clear that it wont harm the fish to give away its scales.

Rainbow nails dont look off.

Reading wishlist

Google books preview of Measurement

How to write about mathematics tweeted by Jen Luc Piquant who could easily be my favourite character in a novel.

Recently I had read about a book by a physicist.

Pyjama strings vs Book mark

Tug of war poetry - Me, myself and Irene?
Telegram poem - Buffalo war

As possible as yeast - first line of poem 'i am not done yet'. This poem compares with Emily D's work.

Can you imagine Luiclle's two headed woman? Will two headed shark give you a clue?

Confession. Conclude something in each stanza, let your last stanza be the collection of the above conclusions.

Sorrow song. Duty of a poet. Be the hundred voices.


Grange hall  in White America

Pomo Shasta Esalen
History as baby


Her endings
1. For the mute
'too many languages
for one mortal tongue'
2. If our granchild be a girl
'the feast of women,
the feeding and
being fed'


I knew of a couple of famous poems by Lucille Clifton but never felt pushed to explore her work further. Looking at this collection, I gave up even before trying by the enormity of the book. But after being lured into other collections, I have realised how an authors whole body of work speaks in a definite voice. With most poets, we need guides. Not with Lucille Clifton, atleast to enjoy it in first reading. Direct to reader poetry. 
The verse is so light (all simple worlds) that its hard to believe that one can write on weighty issues and still write on/from dreams, poetry for relatives and a letter and followups to Superman - not in the tone of 'Rescue me'. She taunts the forces be to topple her like those dolls that will never touch face with ground. 
Repetition used to good effect of gaining familiarty and belongingness.

A title begins with ellipsis leading to God.

I am about to attend a class on how o write something special for your family.
It must refer to On birth of bomani and salt.

Poetry exercise: As in the salt poem, can you think of a same thing that is different to all.