Sports and Games of the Medieval Cultures

Ashta Kashta (Ashta Chemma)
congkak (Vamana gunthalu)

The Matsya Puranam

Matsya puranam

A Philosophy of Walking

I love walking. A book on it - 'A philosophy of Walking' by Frederic Gros is welcome.
soon I realised that another major focus of the book is writers, my another favourite subject.

Delays in traffic jams got me started walking. Soon I got comfortable enough to stretch my walks to test how far I could go. Even though its such and individual, personal task. The author has made various thinkers and their philosophy of walking as the centerpiece of book. The only author in this book, I knew was big on walking - Thoreau. This book has great vignettes of writers and poets whom you know only so much reading up their bio. They become flesh through their feelings during walking.

"Lastly, you are not alone because when you walk you soon become two". This sums up the self-company of walking. As I kept reading, I kept thinking of the various places that I was hiking and the feelings talked about in the book.

The freedom to be

Reference to A Night Among the Pines of


Gyrovagues
Peyote walk
Homo Viator


Time in the philosphy of Gabriel Marcel

Amber Teething Necklace

Amber teething necklaces do they work

When a bowl breaks

In the daze of morning cleaning
I set a washed brown ikea bowl
bought as is
on an inverted black pan
relegated to egg boiling
I woke up to the
sound of shards

Can I put it back
like a wooden egg puzzle
or by Kintsugi 
The golden Repair  

The brown bowl revealed
the ivory within

Kansai Cool

Gratitude
hari kuyo - Festival of broken needles.
Suikinkutsu
Suzo  - ASU has one on campus.
Seeing the forest and the trees

What Makes This Book so Great

Jo Walton
Wooden egg puzzle

Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda_Triangle Exposed

has theories from two writers of

Route 66

Books referred

Plundered hearts

NYJournalofbooks

Letter Composed during a lull in the fighting

I heard of Yellow Birds on NPR but hadnt read it. I am glad to have the chance to read the author in poetry.
Kevin Powers
Washingtonpost

Title poem

Immagine & Poesia

Lidia Chiarelli
IMMAGINE & POESIA

The beginning poems and paintings with Emma Dickinson's
"Forever is composed of nows"
and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's epigrams set a stage that they later ones couldnt share.
The later half of the poems are about visits to the tourist spots in newyork. I was reminded of the time I spent visiting the city.
My NY Times Square poem in Urban Confustions summer issue 2011.

Foam flowers

mislead hummingbird

The Call of the Verdin

is irresistible
It continues till you
look for it
and then its gone

Leaving China

On Chinese scrolls being quiet and subdued but still so alive