Hume for lunch

Hume - How do we know a bread is nourishing other than from past experience?
Why elasticity, gravity?

Walking on a pavement, I see a stop sign and realise that this symbol will mean the same thing always. There is no hidden thing in it.

Chose reading him over walking even in a good breeze.

Elasticity allows for a thing stretching to become an another still retain its original shape and content. Stretching our mind to believe in the mutability of things.

Getty Villa

While reading og the compluvium and impluvium, I was reminded of my uncle's house in a village, which had such a thing. Sure enough, it had a grill too like the olden Roman times.

Imagine paitings on your
wall

Sticks and Bears

A sloth bear grabs a branch
with all its limbs in a forest
Tamed, knocking door to door
it hugs a stick
a bride on her way to new home

Letter to Marge Piercy

Stone, Paper, Knife

Dear Ms Piercy

tears as an act of aggression in Ragged ending
make me wonder why men dont cry.

When I lingered at
What you have abandoned
is not behind but far ahead
where we shall never
now arrive

the ending of your poem Being Left

I understood it more.

Reader

Size a nation

As kids, we have read how Japan did a turn face after the war. In all these mentions, they do not tell you that it is a small country. And because of the size, it is easier to work constructively like in Singapore.
Global Sociology

Volatile Karma

Can all the world's
wrongs be absolved
by asking
those who suffer
willingly

Sin eaters

Penns Woods West

Penns Woods West

The introduction celebrates 'the Good land'
Ed Peterson's teacher Miss Murphy made him see the importance of taking care of the land - Penns Wood west
The book begins with a good look at the Leo constellation that augurs spring.
Sugar camps with the maple sap collection portray the sweetface of seasons of February and March
Thorn creek - In all the walks, the description of the colt foot blossoms, bluets evoke the place in front of us. With the sunlight and shade variations on the kind of blooms it is a 3D experience.
After the hike to Mt Davis, the author looks to the skies and reads the clouds. In his cloudwatching, he talks about what the cirrus and cumulus clouds mean for tomorrow's weather. all the great poets had something to say about the cumulus.

Aug 6,2010