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.

Conversions

If you have to make a decision between a recess can and pendant light and f it seems like a now or never decision, you can freeze. But what a relief it is, in those heaps of Lowe's ads lies music with a kit to convert recessed light to hanging pendant. 

Mailing in the returns to save some money, I had to guess how many stamps would go onto the envelope. I wouldnt have to if I had a postage scale. It requires

ring magnets. Did you see them maintain a distance.  

If you have your tinkering shorts on, here's a book with a persistence of vision clock, dart clock 

Animalcula young scientists guide has a section on 'The Role of creativity in Science' where the author asks the reader to draw a clown. Recently a friend asked me to draw a dog. He had some mini dog sculptures. but I had to do it without looking at inspiration. As I drew, I knew that the boy wasnt that of a dog but of sheep, but I couldnt draw it otherwise. The author says yes you have to draw to be a real scientist 

Paglum imiitates whats closest to it. A good character for children book. The piece by Seth Fried begins with a list of animals. I wondered why. Now I know. Its fiction.

Made to measure. Sue Allison

Helen keller answers the iron

Integrity

Power. We learn about Marie Curie's invention, but not all of the story.

Robert Hass points out that Adrienne Rich's poems go further than other poets.

internal gaps in Upper Broadway. I go to the next line too fast. By maintaining the gaps, there is a tension between what would have been hacked lines.

Diving into Adrienne's work

Her poetic modes

The spiders genius

'To spin and weave in the same action

from her own body, anywhere -

even from a broken web' - Adrienne Rich.

Nature - our hope stash.

My baby puts forward chewed chapathi into my mouth.

Party in progress

10 Little Hot dogs

When the book jacket read ten little hot dogs going to sleep.. I started wondering well thats not new.. Ten little monkeys on a bed start rolling out of the bed one by one reducing the count of the ones on the bed. And the answer is: You count up and then down. And each hot dog brings something to the party on the huge plush chair. To make the read more challenging, you can point the colour of things being added to the party. You can then point to similar colour objects in the room or spot the objects in the room. As the whole situation goes on in the same place, the illustration does not get too different from the previous page other than the addition of the hot dogs and the objects they like to play with.
If you like more variations on the animals going to sleep. There's seven Little bunnies by Julie Stiegemeyer.

Seven ways to sleep

Seven little bunnies. They all fall asleep in the end, the same way cozy, dozy, drowsy... but each gets there having tired themselves out with different things. The illustrations are colourful. As each bunny plays different game, the picture changes quite a bit with each bunny falling asleep. Since the book starts with seven bunnies, you can ask the child pointing to the bunnies already asleep, how many are still awake? The rhyme is not quick, that difficulty might make it better for an advanced reader, in which case you can use one bunny's story a day to put your little reader to sleep.

If you are interested in variations of animals going to sleep, there's 10 little hot dogs by John Himmelman.

Super marble

I saw a kid aged eight walk into a party with a book. I half expected it to be 'The Diary of a Wimpy Kid'. I asked him if he knew how to play the game of Marbles. He didnt. I explained what I knew of it. Later I found him reading the book. Asked him for a summary. He told of a competition between Arthur and Grandma. Arthur learnt the game from Grandma but she hasnt taught him all the tricks. Then he asked me to guess who wins. I said grandma and then recalled the title 'Arthur loses his marbles'. 

Why write

Why these famous authors write

You will like this book if you are new to writing or you are intrested in the specificity of
 the authors in this book.

Options

While choosing design options for a home, sections of friends houses say a gourmet kitchen, pendant lights in one house, their neighbour's backyard fan, a desk in the kitchen of a house started falling in mind as jigsaw puzzle pieces.
When I went to a relatives house with same builder, it felt like I had an answer sheet to the question paper.
The non rectangular sink is basic.

After project management, I can understand why changing options is expensive. It is to curtail frequent changes which can derail the projec schedule.

Musings

I like how Japanese and Chinese art with its simple lines can evoke emotions.

What were your favourite toys as kids? Now I like miniature stuff.

Today I heard the chanting of a mouring dove on a pole. The one on the next pole had the same things to say. The me bird in visual.

daily dozen something like Surya namaskara

Daisy wheel printer

Dakhma. Tower of silence.

Damp box - Wow, wipes can stay moist now, even in summer.

Damp dry - When dry clothes are being ironed in India, a splatter of drops through your fingers makes them enough damp dry.

Danaus

Dancing frog

From Kitchen chemistry, Dave Barry might be lost in the kitchen. My husband likes to help me in the kitchen while I am cooking, but I find it so much easier to chop/cook on auto pilot.