Whether it be the Berlin Wall, apartheid, the bad old coercive Soviet system, or our own bad old coercive business systems, it seems that any foundations not now built on the realities of human relationship are being swept away by the forces of our time. - Crossing the Unknown sea, David Whyte.
Standing the test of time or falling under.
Net Galley Challenge
Friday, February 18, 2011
Restrictions
.. but even during Lithuania's relatively benign interregnum golden period, quotas limied the number of Jews who could practice law. - Al Jaffee, Mad Life
The illustrations in this book are unique with all the mischievous acts that the author was upto as a child.
Kaunas
Prognathic
Keds
Lithuanian Lapta is similar to Indian Gulli danda
How did you view adults in your childhood? Al Jaffee was anti adults.
The illustrations in this book are unique with all the mischievous acts that the author was upto as a child.
Kaunas
Prognathic
Keds
Lithuanian Lapta is similar to Indian Gulli danda
How did you view adults in your childhood? Al Jaffee was anti adults.
Fish pond
.. the powers that be decided to poison the pond so that they could get rid of pickerel and bass and horned pout and turtles and stock it with trout. - Mark Vonnegut, Just like someone without mental illness only more so
one question that all adults like to ask kids , 'What will you be when you grow up?'. Mark's 'I should have been a doctor' at 25 from his 9-10 yr old self, made him a doctor.
Once Mark Vonnegut brought home RSV. Contagion does not fear doctor. Therese J. Borchard calls the playroom as 'pink-eye pit' in her memoir Beyond Blue
I talked with Lincoln and Twain
and Dostoyevsky and played
saxophone with Coltrane.
- Mark Vonnegut.
Tree of Hippocrates at harvard from a sapling from Kos.
First do no harm
- Hippocrates
Applies to engineers too. Dont break things while fixing broken stuff.
one question that all adults like to ask kids , 'What will you be when you grow up?'. Mark's 'I should have been a doctor' at 25 from his 9-10 yr old self, made him a doctor.
Once Mark Vonnegut brought home RSV. Contagion does not fear doctor. Therese J. Borchard calls the playroom as 'pink-eye pit' in her memoir Beyond Blue
I talked with Lincoln and Twain
and Dostoyevsky and played
saxophone with Coltrane.
- Mark Vonnegut.
Tree of Hippocrates at harvard from a sapling from Kos.
First do no harm
- Hippocrates
Applies to engineers too. Dont break things while fixing broken stuff.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Art
Netsuke in The hare with amber eyes
The family tree spanning two sides of the page is scary. It begins in Japan. Then theres a map of Paris.
Flaneur
The family tree spanning two sides of the page is scary. It begins in Japan. Then theres a map of Paris.
Flaneur
Monday, February 14, 2011
Does a North rough winged swallow
feel the loss of a feather or two
As the bird whizzes from one end
of the steps to the other, on the bank
does it recognise the feather sailing
like a dart due to reflection
does it feel the loss as much as that
of a flying insect that escapes it
does it feel like the loss of a
toe-nail or an eyelash?
Two owls drop me an insect
when I look at them
How do the birds detect insects?
What is the insects defense?
Crickets are chirping away in India
Is it getting hot?
feel the loss of a feather or two
As the bird whizzes from one end
of the steps to the other, on the bank
does it recognise the feather sailing
like a dart due to reflection
does it feel the loss as much as that
of a flying insect that escapes it
does it feel like the loss of a
toe-nail or an eyelash?
Two owls drop me an insect
when I look at them
How do the birds detect insects?
What is the insects defense?
Crickets are chirping away in India
Is it getting hot?
Seurasaari
Seurasaari as an open museum, is not going well with me. What are such other jarring notions?
Museums are wonderlands. Salarjung museum is the first one I have been to. As a kid I liked the ceramic dolls.
Why would a cold country celebrate the end of summer? That too with a Bonfire.
The poem reels us in with the mention of place and Vendace but fails to take us along.
Ivory chairs in Salarjung museum.
Museums are wonderlands. Salarjung museum is the first one I have been to. As a kid I liked the ceramic dolls.
Why would a cold country celebrate the end of summer? That too with a Bonfire.
The poem reels us in with the mention of place and Vendace but fails to take us along.
Ivory chairs in Salarjung museum.
Stains
Shrimp stain shows on white
Flesh color cloth would hide it.
white school skirts
stained by mud splash
on rainy days
Flesh color cloth would hide it.
white school skirts
stained by mud splash
on rainy days
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Relative colors
After looking at Taupe and Sepia apartments
the eyes liken the green of the golf course
to an olive drab
the eyes liken the green of the golf course
to an olive drab
Lake walk
The lake smells of water after sitting with it for a few minutes.
A kid likes throwing weeds into the water. Dried Leaves.
Swallows disappear. Their chatter emerges.
Cormorant flies low. Dunks.
Coots beak into the water like chicks. Shriek.
Men bicycle on water. The bank hides their water-bike boat base.
A Gila woodpecker ona stump is larger than when close to the canopy.
The reflection of an upturned end of a feather along with it makes it look like a dart, an aphid with imaginary feet out for landing.
A cash dispenser of an ATM under repair. Its sensors are weak.
A bubble floats on water momentarily.
As the water moves
so do the contour lines
A kid likes throwing weeds into the water. Dried Leaves.
Swallows disappear. Their chatter emerges.
Cormorant flies low. Dunks.
Coots beak into the water like chicks. Shriek.
Men bicycle on water. The bank hides their water-bike boat base.
A Gila woodpecker ona stump is larger than when close to the canopy.
The reflection of an upturned end of a feather along with it makes it look like a dart, an aphid with imaginary feet out for landing.
A cash dispenser of an ATM under repair. Its sensors are weak.
A bubble floats on water momentarily.
As the water moves
so do the contour lines
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Work
When I came across Snowdonia in Crossing the unknown sea, I thought it was a made up name. It reminded me of Caledonia
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Memoryscape
Phyllis Theroux views her brain as an unevenly frozen pond.
If I were to see my memory scape in geography, it would have some chasms and some crumbling edges, nothing that I would be scared to revisit. Two years ago, when we went to the Havasu falls, after going half way into that convoluted tunnel, my legs started shaking and when I was told that I had to climb down facing the rock, I gave up. I will try again. I want to go beyond and see the cascade falls. I want to see the wilderness.
If I were to see my memory scape in geography, it would have some chasms and some crumbling edges, nothing that I would be scared to revisit. Two years ago, when we went to the Havasu falls, after going half way into that convoluted tunnel, my legs started shaking and when I was told that I had to climb down facing the rock, I gave up. I will try again. I want to go beyond and see the cascade falls. I want to see the wilderness.
Animal Affinity
I saw Mark Twain's Book of Animals, a while ago, but the text seemed dense. It opens an unknown side of him.
Mountains
When I saw Mt Humphreys in Early Days in the Range of Light, I wanted to know of what others thought about it. After looking at the Married Mens point, I know its not the same mountain we are talking about.
Food Tunnel
If Anthony Bourdain liked his swearing 'Sparingly' in Medium Raw, it would be easier. But thats not going to stop me from reading it. The Last time I read his The Kitchen Confidential, I alienated my friends getting busy making alist of all the French dishes he was talking about.
I like his beginning questions, Why cook? Why cook well?
I want to retain a paraphrased version of it - Why write? Why write well?
no-necked strangers.. unclicheing the cliche
Wiffle ball game
When reading of how Mario Batali wouldnt throw the towel in because of the many people dependent on his kingdom. I wanted to know about his employees
Bottle service
I like his beginning questions, Why cook? Why cook well?
I want to retain a paraphrased version of it - Why write? Why write well?
no-necked strangers.. unclicheing the cliche
Wiffle ball game
When reading of how Mario Batali wouldnt throw the towel in because of the many people dependent on his kingdom. I wanted to know about his employees
Bottle service
The Brouhaha of memoirs
Some bashing of memoirs
What if I want to write without any healing stories? The power of memoir, a How to Write your Healing story.
After looking at Getting a Grip of Monica Seles ( the cover picture reminds me of the lead singer of Maroon 5) and Open of Andre Agassi, I want to know all about them but not putting in so much time.
Reading a description of Getting a Grip, it seems like a revelation that Seles had to be away for a while. Human behavior is so underknown. As a child, it is understandable that a stab to a sportswoman would just mean a trip to hospital and getting well. But even now, it wouldnt follow for me the emotional requirement to understand the stab event, react to it and heal from it.
In so many events of the last century, there were crowds taking part in the same. When it is a personal event, it must take alot to eve know your coordinates. In the cairo event, looks like in the spirit of crowd, things are taking their course but there is the aspect of some families with loss.
What if I want to write without any healing stories? The power of memoir, a How to Write your Healing story.
After looking at Getting a Grip of Monica Seles ( the cover picture reminds me of the lead singer of Maroon 5) and Open of Andre Agassi, I want to know all about them but not putting in so much time.
Reading a description of Getting a Grip, it seems like a revelation that Seles had to be away for a while. Human behavior is so underknown. As a child, it is understandable that a stab to a sportswoman would just mean a trip to hospital and getting well. But even now, it wouldnt follow for me the emotional requirement to understand the stab event, react to it and heal from it.
In so many events of the last century, there were crowds taking part in the same. When it is a personal event, it must take alot to eve know your coordinates. In the cairo event, looks like in the spirit of crowd, things are taking their course but there is the aspect of some families with loss.
Not made up
I do not know why I am not open to reading made up stories on events in life. I was just about to drop this book when it said it had all of it. It meant in the diary form. Is it fiction? Lets find out.
After coming across Isle of Mull in The Journal Keeper, I looked for a photo of it in the google maps and found Carsaig of Arches. What a landscape in green and rock.
Perelandra
Thurber's bear story
Passion vs love. I would bet on passion that I can light than on love that others quell.
After coming across Isle of Mull in The Journal Keeper, I looked for a photo of it in the google maps and found Carsaig of Arches. What a landscape in green and rock.
Perelandra
Thurber's bear story
Passion vs love. I would bet on passion that I can light than on love that others quell.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Training
My dad taught me
to figure the days
in a month
by situating them on the
crest or trough
of the knuckles and
in between.
I am told infants
explore them all
till they reach
the thumb
to figure the days
in a month
by situating them on the
crest or trough
of the knuckles and
in between.
I am told infants
explore them all
till they reach
the thumb
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Variable lives
One cannot insert a dead friend back into ones life
Imagine our lives as tooth paste or fancy perfume bottles. There are some which have more glass than mercury. How much of it do we want, as much as our bottle can fill.
Imagine our lives as tooth paste or fancy perfume bottles. There are some which have more glass than mercury. How much of it do we want, as much as our bottle can fill.
Dictionary
Lookign at the chromologically arranged poems of George Herbert, I feel like using a dictionary as the starting point to write on. Some use for the foreign ones piling up.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Should he close the nose?
"Close his eyes" says
the calm dog owner
A pitbull is climbing
onto another dog
even though a leash
and the owner struggle
to bring him to ground.
the calm dog owner
A pitbull is climbing
onto another dog
even though a leash
and the owner struggle
to bring him to ground.
Radio waves never die
- Jeffrey Koterba
Universal truths
Sun rising in the east
Our dreams, our visions
Our intuitions, Our flow
from dead or fellows
Hemingweyian origin
Universal truths
Sun rising in the east
Our dreams, our visions
Our intuitions, Our flow
from dead or fellows
Hemingweyian origin
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Objects of our affection
Hepplewhite cabinet
Noritake
White and blue Canton from Kwantung
sea burial
Minton set
Looking at Chinese wedding lamps, I am reminded of another tradition. Korean wedding ducks
Doulton
wedgwood
Staffordshire
Spode
Quartermaster
Dorothy Draper
Hepplewhite cabinet
Noritake
White and blue Canton from Kwantung
sea burial
Minton set
Looking at Chinese wedding lamps, I am reminded of another tradition. Korean wedding ducks
Doulton
wedgwood
Staffordshire
Spode
Quartermaster
Dorothy Draper
Pictures as story tellers
Hopi Summer
.. the Hopis I spoke with were fascinated to se historic images of their communities. - Carolyn O'Bagy Davis
The curiosity of one to trace photos of land and people connects the children to their roots and the lying rocks to once hoisted boulders.
I have a picture of a house and a tree in a book.
.. the Hopis I spoke with were fascinated to se historic images of their communities. - Carolyn O'Bagy Davis
The curiosity of one to trace photos of land and people connects the children to their roots and the lying rocks to once hoisted boulders.
I have a picture of a house and a tree in a book.
Borges Lectures
Seven Nights
Everything connects, but it is Borges alone who can make these connections, across cultures, across literatures, across languags, across time. - Alastair Reid.
Icelandic sagas
Everything connects, but it is Borges alone who can make these connections, across cultures, across literatures, across languags, across time. - Alastair Reid.
Icelandic sagas
Monday, January 31, 2011
Versatile Saramago
Jorge Amado
Apelles
Rita Levi
Teratology
Carlos Fuentes - Aura
Spiritual family of Saramago
Ramon Lobo
Enric Gonzalez - Stories of New York
I like the sound of Teide in Tenerife
Kerouac's diet
Which of Breughel painting has most life?
Like a Breughel painting, On the Road teems with life, celebrating our moments on earth even as it mourns them. - Jay Atkinson,
Paradise road
The first time I heard of Kerouac was in reference to the Death cab for cutie work being comapred to him.
Like a Breughel painting, On the Road teems with life, celebrating our moments on earth even as it mourns them. - Jay Atkinson,
Paradise road
The first time I heard of Kerouac was in reference to the Death cab for cutie work being comapred to him.
Colors and sounds
Henri cole
Pierce the skin
The poems recall the plains, managing to keep the interest of the poem in all of its breadth instead of just as a line coursing through the page, zig-zag, left to right and down, repeat.
Pierce the skin
The poems recall the plains, managing to keep the interest of the poem in all of its breadth instead of just as a line coursing through the page, zig-zag, left to right and down, repeat.
Listening to the lonely whistle
The Living fire
Maud Gonne
Rosicrucian
I liked 'Three Journeys'. 'Execution' and other poems which I would write in a single line show to elaborate on an experience.
A book that I will sit with to learn how to write.
Review
Maud Gonne
Rosicrucian
I liked 'Three Journeys'. 'Execution' and other poems which I would write in a single line show to elaborate on an experience.
A book that I will sit with to learn how to write.
Review
Reading experiences
My Reading Life
When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman - elegy on the death of Abe Lincoln.
A Dance to the music of time
"Pat, don't you think the passage of time is what all literature is really about? Poems, plays, novels, everything?"
- Gene Norris, Pat's English teacher.
When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman - elegy on the death of Abe Lincoln.
A Dance to the music of time
"Pat, don't you think the passage of time is what all literature is really about? Poems, plays, novels, everything?"
- Gene Norris, Pat's English teacher.
Millay
I like the courage in Interim
Back cover
Her elegies are good. 'still' appears a lot in her poems.
A maiden lost in love is not down.
No rose in a garden that ever grew
In Homer's or in Omars or in mine
-Edna St Millay
If memory worked differently
our poems would not end in
rhymes but begin with synonyms
or end with antonyms
If it remembered experiences with
varying degrees
our poems would end in
er and est
Her sonnets
Back cover
Her elegies are good. 'still' appears a lot in her poems.
A maiden lost in love is not down.
No rose in a garden that ever grew
In Homer's or in Omars or in mine
-Edna St Millay
If memory worked differently
our poems would not end in
rhymes but begin with synonyms
or end with antonyms
If it remembered experiences with
varying degrees
our poems would end in
er and est
Her sonnets
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Clean slate
The volley ball court
is sand raked
Three birds walked
towards the center
of a triangle
and then
they flew
is sand raked
Three birds walked
towards the center
of a triangle
and then
they flew
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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