Pyrography

What is Pyrography?

To Dads

While reading about author's plane ride with his son, I was reminded of a time in the line at the airport security check. A quiet teenager had a comfort toy with her and a Dad. Reading all the stories and poems, I was reminded of all the books I read so far on disabilities - parents rejoicing when their disabled kids can do something thought impossible until then, parents finding them in their children's shoes and understanding their own disabilities, how some health conditions bar a normal life, parents inspired by their kids.
This collection too has stories from father's POV, appreciation of present fathers.
The Prosthetics Fitting Suite poem by Sam Smith poem captures a moment in life, when we come to realisations of huge consequence.
The most popular book about a disabled person is that of Hellen Keller. While there is a mystery element of how is a broken communication channel made up for, I have always read stories about how people overcome their disability and do wonderful feats like Erik Weihenmayer climbing Everest and later helping a team of blind children from Nepal do similar things. Parents and caregivers take upon systems to give their child the best care possible. Debunking the mom as primary caregiver of a disabled child, this book appreciated the Dads.

Mirror

1. A Tunnel reflection in water completes it
But a good look at the mirror reveals
who we are not
Two bamboo sticks in a vase
now four with a mirror

2. An elliptical mirror
looks like a circle from far
Distance reduces an ellipse's
ecccnetricity  to zero

The Solution Revolution

code that tracks salmonella outbreaks using government data
Office of social Innovation and civic Participation
Modern toilet
Data driven funding model

In this book, 'The Solution Revolution' you will read how citizens across the world are identifying problems, solutions and using the latest technology in that process. You will get an idea of the size of non-profit economy, companies which support common good. If you have read about companies like Zappos, Salesforce, then you already know about how the companies are moving ahead with big plans for communities and donating some percentage of time to volunteer work.
There are steps to start your own solution to a problem that you identify.

Women and Tech

Girlswhocode
Reshma Saujani

Freehand

       


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1. Unexpected detail .  Write complementary sections of a poem that bring out synergy by a tug-of-war.
2. Color accent. Let a section of a poem do double duty extending to another poem.

Data Driven Marketing

How do businesses know you moved and welcome you to the new neighbourhood with offers?
National Change Of Address

What is RFM model?

The common thing in religions

I came across the the ten paintings of the Ox and the Boy but didnt know its  significance. In The Oxherder and the Good Shepherd. author Addison Hodges compares the scriptures of a religion to the tracks left by the Ox in discussion. And who is the Ox in the paintings? The self.
In the series of the paintings is a well told story of taming your self.

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Lessons from  Lonely Planet's Best Ever Photography Tricks
1. A foreground and background to your poem
2. Transforming Power of Light. How does your poem change by day and by night?
3. Is your poem ever at crossroads?
4. Your Poem in Raw mode
5. Critique your poems objectively.
6. Adjusting exposure of your poem
7. Bracketing in Poetry
8. What is the flash for your poem?
9. What is the red-eye of your poem? How to reduce it.
10. What is your poem's blur
11.Does rule-of-thirds apply to you poem?

Where the Locals Go

How to Sell Well

This day and age when information is at the fingertips, sales people arent the ones with most data on a product. Its time to turn to social media for boosting the sales. This book, Revenue and the CMO by Glenn Gow of Crimson Marketing, stresses on the importance of collaboration of Marketing and Sales department and the need for presence on the social media to be with your
customers from the beginning to end of the buying journey.
The format of the book with fictional characters of representatives from Marketing and Sales of a sinking ship company trying to turn around, made the whole visualisation of what steps would be involved in turning to the model of sales people donning the new avatar, easy.
These days companies have new job postings like Virtual Sales specialist for improving their profile on social media.
How do you know this whole process is working? With your ability to forecast sales.

Epiphyte poem

While reading about Epiphytes in Mother of God, I wondered how an epiphyte poem would look.

Would it be like a beet ?
Coloring everything in its way

Can two poems mingle
Or are they better on their own.

For an Epiphytic poem to encroach
the roots of the other poem,
how do we recognize the root of a poem?

Can a poem be Grafting onto another?

Exercise:
1. Write an Epiphytic poem

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Aviation Quarterly

Mother of God

Paul Rosolie

Gliding ant

When the author says that he saw tropical birds as soon as he got out at the airport, it feels weird that what is a bird to the local is tropical to foreigners. From there begins the surreal journey of a teenager. while reading about his man eater friend, it felt like I could very well be reading a magical book or an Unlikely Friendship series.
Even though I had read about epiphytes, jaguars the silent ghosts (prowling in our very own Hollywood), author Paul Rosolie brought his verve into the subjects explaining the whys and hows. His love for nature and research shows through the poetic description of epiphytes tactics, gliding ants evolution.

To dream not just of glow worms but sleeping in the jungle.