Zombity

I have never read Zombie lit. I thought may be its good to start younger version of it.

Jumanji

I saw the Jumanji movie yesterday. I know its ancient. I used to tink Jumanji is the name of  amonkey who is friends with the kids.

After the movie who is brave enough to play the board game.

The apple with a smaller core

Today I am going to eat the apple
a new way
one that promises no core
I have to eat it from top
I stare at the apple on the napkin
It has a scar
just like me
a sign of contact with hot oven

one fourth into apple eating
I found no core and then I
could peek into it
A tiny thread, I pulled at it
a seed was stuck to it
attached with tiny filaments

I had to spit out a
ball of core

The oldest cookbook

Archestratus

The Culinary triangle

Tragedy in a town

A tornado hit south of Dallas city

When something like that happens

In Tempe, a town, whole is affected

Phoenix is huge.

The breadth of a city. Its takes more than an hour

To get to the other end

 in 10 polish books you should be reading

Big picture press

Yellowstone

The flat

In the documentary The Flat, a coin with two opposing sides when whirred round, wakes you and takes you back to the moment where the journey began in the narrator's grandparents flat.
While going through the things, the family members find unprocessed furs. Thoreau writes that Penobscot Indians wore the furs with legs and tails dangling.
I am usually not comfortable with works on Holocaust but the general theme that we all have a past and the generational identities or the lack of it was clearly shown. The genealogy tree's significance is seen too. And strong bond sof friendship can travel up and down the blood line and lead to insights of the past.
When I look at literary magazines asking for work on themes of family secrets, I always wonder what could be in the past. This movie is a great answer to that. The narrator and his mother form a good explorer pair into his and their past.

The journey that he took was coveted by many. He had to make sure there were no stowaways after stopping at his son's school.
During the travles his 'ream of paper' drifted to cover the whole place.

 Sara Wheeler went by LOT Airlines to Poland.

Acorn coffee
Chopin manor in Poland. Chopin's sister was his first teacher.
Costive
Yahgan

Who is Schiaparelli?

Elsa Schiaparelli

Review

Wendell Berry on William Carlos Williams

Like always, I could see the cover better digital.

Rutherford like Thoreau's Concord

Rutherford, NJ has a Baby parade.

Handwritten sometime after 2007

By having a topic to write, do we just limit ourselves to that or whatever is lurking inside will make  a connection to it.
Wheat tortillas taste better than plain flour tortillas. They have a texture. They make you stop and chew while you keep having the flour tortillas without a break and are left bickering for taste. Is the taste in what lets you pause and reflect what is in it? For writing, it seems like I have to sit in a place and think. peripatetic writing seems so difficult.
Counting food is a pause too for controlling appetite.
Going to a new place, with directions is like solving a puzzle. As you keep reaching your turn points, its another tick mark on your sheet.
Houses next to a hill.
On the I-10 Warner exit, very small broken pieces of red and yellow lights were like broken glass bangles. Our mind is so resourceful. sometimes if it finds a solution, sometimes it prods us int he direction of a question.
Damselfly. Shoals. Food carts in canal.
We cannot stick to a routine.

Vermont nature

Imagine the immense frog with a porkpie hat and cigar and fishing for the author.
Mentioning Keats vale of tears, the author uses unKeatsian. It seems to be a more common word than I thought. Writers keep the thoughts of other writers alive including them in their own writing. Like sour bread incorporating yesterday's dough.

Stories illustrated