Trish and Alex

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Greatkids Outdoors. Now I want to read that Before they are gone.
Children and Nature
Nature rocks

Time to write by the author of Your creative writing masterclass

A flower

A flower’s
track of
fragrance
attracts
a train
of bees.

The moon
ripples

the rocks
next to
the water
reflect
the moon

4.16.2008 10:43pm

Book list

story

Now I get to read Up and The Man who planted trees from Wish list but more add to it.

I want to read
Apron Anxiety
How to Cook like a man
Homesick and happy : How time away from parents can help a child grow

Essays

Pulphead
As said in this review, The final comeback of Axl Rose essay is very well written. Makes Axl interesting for those who know an dont know him. His At a Shelter (After Katrina)
deposits you in the place ravished by nature. His Michael essay makes Jackson human and liberates the artist of any judgement. Unnamed Caves essay and the pictures of Mud Glyph Cave.
Cumberland plateau

Mysterious insects

Sex on six legs

I have heard of Dung beetles on NPR. Just snippets here and there, so I didnt catch the part about the great good they do cleaning up the planet. There are numbers to show the benefit in terms of money. This metric is use di this book for many other activities of insects.

Last night I slept reading of Pestival's homage to Michael Jackson with a moon walker Vegetable Wasp. Sure enough I dreamt of being on a tram where Michael Jackson was doing an exclusive song-dance and we were all about to crash.

As kids we were told that cockroaches were resilient. They could survive the deserts and the freezing Antartica. Just when the roach was getting the 'Super insect' award, an Emerald wasp hypnotised it off-stage.

Zombie Caterpillars. Wow now dont we pity the caterpillar a natural death by another insect.


Delhi Sands flower-loving fly

Evidence of counting in insects
Training bees to recognise faces

Lingual Journal

Recently we had a hailstorm. The papers referred to it as winter storm.
And an unpredicted rainbow too.

Hailstones the size of blue berries filled the little patch of garden like it has been sp(r)ayed with fertilisers.

I was thinking of how it is easy for us to subtract something and still make sense but harder to think of addition of something to bring out another meaning.

I was thinking like if there's an opposite. Epenthesis is the linguist's answer.

A while ago I was thinking how will I teach my child of Sandhi where two words add and at the juncture a different letter comes in. Epenthesis seems to retain all the letters in most cases instead of gobbling up some letters as 'service fee'.

My mom was telling that padava thargathi (tenth class) is now being referred to as pado thargathi ((still) tenth class). Spoken is taking the matter in its hands from the written.

I am worrying about teaching difficult concepts in Telugu, my mother tongue to my child but I am far losing touch with it. Few years ago, my uncle said that it was my accent, I am holding onto each sound. But now I know it even in the construction, I am filling in a lot of letters to communicate what I like to say but it all come sout in words that do not belong to the language except for the main verb. Makes for a good laugh. But what will the child learn from my garbled utterances? And Hindi, it is so taking the back bench in the brain. I am putting in English while speaking Hindi afraid to take the liberty of modifying it like I do to Telugu. I have learnt written Telugu only till 5th grade. I learnt written Hindi from 6th to 10th grade. I learnt spoken Hindi as a kid but forgot it by the time I came to high school. When I relearnt it, I didnt do learn it alright(Elision!).