Net Galley Challenge
Monday, May 11, 2015
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Selling Your House
The book runs in a very interesting manner about what months are likely to be well received in terms of home selling. Did you know that your home owners insurance might not be valid if its vacant? Have you heard of transfer tax, discount brokers, listing agreement (which is better - exclusive right to sell, exclusive agency, open listing), FSBO (For sale by owner), broker's tour, seller rent-back.
Should you stage your house?
The book is also interesting because of the numbers. For example, staged houses moved 87% faster.
Should you hire an agent?
89% do. Why not?
With these statistics, you get a good grip of the real market and buyers profile. You will be surprised at the number of contingencies a house sale could face.
Redfin - hybrid model
Poetry in Medicine
"The cry of a door is a pitiable thing." - Thomas James, In Fever.
the only parts of the body the same size at birth as they’ll always be.
Mummy of a lady named
Pathology of colours
Ode on my belly button
Fear of Grays Anatomy
Clarinda Harriss
I'm like a rifle that's a little out of date but very accurate: when I love, there's a strong recoil, back to childhood, and it hurts
Epilepsy petit mal
"the plastic tubing whispers blood through
her flesh, .." - Transfusion, Kate Kimball
more brain mashed because of the probe’s braille path;
The Urine Specimen
Ode on my episiotomy
The Urine Specimen
Ode on my episiotomy
"and the faith of that stranger
who answers when my name is called" - Dennis Nurkse, Things I forget to tell my Doctor
But someone I know is dying- And though one might say glibly, "everyone is," The different pace makes the difference absolute.
But someone I know is dying- And though one might say glibly, "everyone is," The different pace makes the difference absolute.
"When we are sleeping
alone, and we wake, and the walls are breathing
and they are the company we keep" - Florence Weinberger, Getting in Bed With a Man who is sick.
poetry prompt
1. Nude Descending. Write a poem with a title after a painting title or inspired by it.
Friday, May 8, 2015
Excuses
Chicken Biryani rife with spices
tastes good with hot peanut chutney
A spoon of chutney left on the plate
begs for a helping of chicken biryani
Some left rice on the plate
calls for chutney
tastes good with hot peanut chutney
A spoon of chutney left on the plate
begs for a helping of chicken biryani
Some left rice on the plate
calls for chutney
Morning walk
The girl who walked to school yesterday
is late today
I meet her at the corner as opposed
to the dead end
The sophomore who biked yesterday to school
isnt out yet or has left already
The neighbour who dropped her kids yesterday
and said hi
has just entered the community today
Morning walk puts you
in the routine of others
The pole hides the flag
The wind reveals it
is late today
I meet her at the corner as opposed
to the dead end
The sophomore who biked yesterday to school
isnt out yet or has left already
The neighbour who dropped her kids yesterday
and said hi
has just entered the community today
Morning walk puts you
in the routine of others
The pole hides the flag
The wind reveals it
Baby is not in your tummy anymore
Come bathe me
Baby is not in your tummy anymore
Sit with me on the floor
Baby is not in your tummy anymore
Can you lift my scooty over the threshold
This is what my daughter says after her little sis is in her hands.
Once she asked me if the baby will go back into tummy.
Digital nest making for babies - unsubscribing from all groupon and other daily emails that are anyways not used during the first 6 weeks immobility of having a new baby.
Baby is not in your tummy anymore
Sit with me on the floor
Baby is not in your tummy anymore
Can you lift my scooty over the threshold
This is what my daughter says after her little sis is in her hands.
Once she asked me if the baby will go back into tummy.
Digital nest making for babies - unsubscribing from all groupon and other daily emails that are anyways not used during the first 6 weeks immobility of having a new baby.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Poems that make grown men cry
She was deep within herself, like a woman heavy with child
Ithaka
Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad
Peer Gynt: The Priest's Monologue
while grass and buildings and the somnolent river, who know they are allowed to last forever,
- Not all rivers are allowed to last forever. Our village's river has dried up.
That everything's remade With shovel and spade;
No painting had ever made me cry
The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. What instruments we have agree The day of his death was a dark cold day.
"Paternal Love will only use Force in the last resort On those too bumptious to repent."
So many poems about the deaths of animals. Wilbur’s toad, Kinnell’s porcupine, Eberhart’s squirrel,
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Photorealism
When a photo is taken in a studio, some elements are crafted. Will it make us understand photorealism better that it is an inclusion of everything in daily life without craft?
Paintings of still life that at once look real and as a photograph are very often in your mailbox forwarded by friends who cant believe that paintings can be done so realistically. Photorealism is one subject which divides a clear line between those who get it and those who dont. For one side if its skill and tradition, for the others it lacks artists perspective. For such a disputed topic, 'Photorealism: Beginnings to Today" has a great section of Artists Biographies which summarise the artists view of why they do photorealistic paintings.
For one artist, "changing the size of an object lets them explore its reality" like Georgia O keefe's flower paintings, for another, "cropping of the subject enforces tight composition", yet another shows "how people need chrome in a painting to see themselves". One artist convinces himself that he is creating everything he is painting.
For such a divisive topic, I would have liked more essays than available in the book.
In 'the Ignorant Maestro', Itay Talgam asks "How would you like walking into a Van Gogh exhibition in which all the paintings had recently been "upgraded" so the gaps between the painter's view of the landscape and the "real" view we know from everyday experience has been eliminated?". Perhaps the photorealistic is to show that there is always a gap, even if the painter tries to make the painting seem real, as there is his interpretation present in it always. Zeno's paradox.
poetry prompt:
1. Aging, Beauty and Appearance
Find groups of three words from dictionary that make for an interesting beading.
2. "By radically changing the size of everyday objects we can get into them and more easily explore their surfaces and construction -their reality" - Charles Bell
3. Black Glass Still Life with Fish, Pear, Skeleton
What are you likely to compose in your still life?
4. The cropping of the subject enforces a tight composition .. according to Gus Heinze. What would you choose to crop out?
5. It isnt the reflective quality of chrome as a painting that interests me - its the evidence that they need a certain amount of chrome in their lives, in a figurative sense, in order to see themselves"
What else do people need to see themselves?
6. When I paint water, rocks, sky, trees, chairs, etc., I must imagine touching them, convincing myself, as it were, that I am creating these things in a very real sense. The magic occurs when I believe I have done this
What would you paint to create?
Paintings of still life that at once look real and as a photograph are very often in your mailbox forwarded by friends who cant believe that paintings can be done so realistically. Photorealism is one subject which divides a clear line between those who get it and those who dont. For one side if its skill and tradition, for the others it lacks artists perspective. For such a disputed topic, 'Photorealism: Beginnings to Today" has a great section of Artists Biographies which summarise the artists view of why they do photorealistic paintings.
For one artist, "changing the size of an object lets them explore its reality" like Georgia O keefe's flower paintings, for another, "cropping of the subject enforces tight composition", yet another shows "how people need chrome in a painting to see themselves". One artist convinces himself that he is creating everything he is painting.
For such a divisive topic, I would have liked more essays than available in the book.
In 'the Ignorant Maestro', Itay Talgam asks "How would you like walking into a Van Gogh exhibition in which all the paintings had recently been "upgraded" so the gaps between the painter's view of the landscape and the "real" view we know from everyday experience has been eliminated?". Perhaps the photorealistic is to show that there is always a gap, even if the painter tries to make the painting seem real, as there is his interpretation present in it always. Zeno's paradox.
poetry prompt:
1. Aging, Beauty and Appearance
Find groups of three words from dictionary that make for an interesting beading.
2. "By radically changing the size of everyday objects we can get into them and more easily explore their surfaces and construction -their reality" - Charles Bell
3. Black Glass Still Life with Fish, Pear, Skeleton
What are you likely to compose in your still life?
4. The cropping of the subject enforces a tight composition .. according to Gus Heinze. What would you choose to crop out?
5. It isnt the reflective quality of chrome as a painting that interests me - its the evidence that they need a certain amount of chrome in their lives, in a figurative sense, in order to see themselves"
What else do people need to see themselves?
6. When I paint water, rocks, sky, trees, chairs, etc., I must imagine touching them, convincing myself, as it were, that I am creating these things in a very real sense. The magic occurs when I believe I have done this
What would you paint to create?
Map
Ballad
Understanding Wislawa Szymborska
Conversation with a stone
".. lake
that goes unnamed
and doesnt exist on this earth, just as the star
reflected in it is not in the sky." - Water
Fish to Fish
Inventor of Zero
"The boat from which he stepped into the world, into un-eternity" - Born
Census
The legend of Owl was a baker's daughter in Beheading
children of Vietnam
Thomas Mann
The Cave
Map Collected and Last poems of Wislawa Szymborska begins with her work from 1944. I am glad I stuck to the book. From Salt 1962 is when I started reading the book with fire. From then on, each poem had something to offer.
If the poet Wislawa Szymborska were a painter, her painting would be a montage that morphs from a hyperrealistic painting to a revelatory painting, retaining only the necessary objects.
Her poems deal with plain opposites - In 'To My Heart, On Sunday' - its the restlessly working heart on Sabbath rest day.
Her poems deal with movement - In 'The Acrobat' - movement in time (present and future) and space. Sometimes calculated like this and other times, its a huge push to future of
"Nothing - but after us,
who were here before
and ate our hearts
and drank our blood" - Cave poem
Her poems, zoom in on a single in a multitude in 'Snapshot of a Crowd'
Her poems use literary devices like alliteration, string of words
"Moraines and morays and morasses and mussels,
the flame, the flamingo, he flounder, the feather-" - Birthday poem
Her poems usually a page and a half long arrive by the end of the page, the next half is a bonus. Unlike some poets, you dont have to wait
till the end.
poetry prompt
1. write an Inverted poem
2. write a Soliloquy
3. I prefer earth in civvies. Write a 'I prefer' poem.
4. I am Tarsier. Write from a different point of view.
5. To my heart on Sunday. Heart works endlessly even on Sabbath rest day. Any such opposites strike you?
6. The Acrobat places the performer in time and space, weaves through it as he moves. Are you amazed by any movement?
7. Snapshot of a Crowd. Multitude to a single. Can you zoom in on a tree in a forest, grain in sand?
8. Dinosaur Skeleton. Addressing in many different ways, mocking the addressed.
9. Pi
Understanding Wislawa Szymborska
Conversation with a stone
".. lake
that goes unnamed
and doesnt exist on this earth, just as the star
reflected in it is not in the sky." - Water
Fish to Fish
Inventor of Zero
"The boat from which he stepped into the world, into un-eternity" - Born
Census
The legend of Owl was a baker's daughter in Beheading
children of Vietnam
Thomas Mann
The Cave
Map Collected and Last poems of Wislawa Szymborska begins with her work from 1944. I am glad I stuck to the book. From Salt 1962 is when I started reading the book with fire. From then on, each poem had something to offer.
If the poet Wislawa Szymborska were a painter, her painting would be a montage that morphs from a hyperrealistic painting to a revelatory painting, retaining only the necessary objects.
Her poems deal with plain opposites - In 'To My Heart, On Sunday' - its the restlessly working heart on Sabbath rest day.
Her poems deal with movement - In 'The Acrobat' - movement in time (present and future) and space. Sometimes calculated like this and other times, its a huge push to future of
"Nothing - but after us,
who were here before
and ate our hearts
and drank our blood" - Cave poem
Her poems, zoom in on a single in a multitude in 'Snapshot of a Crowd'
Her poems use literary devices like alliteration, string of words
"Moraines and morays and morasses and mussels,
the flame, the flamingo, he flounder, the feather-" - Birthday poem
Her poems usually a page and a half long arrive by the end of the page, the next half is a bonus. Unlike some poets, you dont have to wait
till the end.
poetry prompt
1. write an Inverted poem
2. write a Soliloquy
3. I prefer earth in civvies. Write a 'I prefer' poem.
4. I am Tarsier. Write from a different point of view.
5. To my heart on Sunday. Heart works endlessly even on Sabbath rest day. Any such opposites strike you?
6. The Acrobat places the performer in time and space, weaves through it as he moves. Are you amazed by any movement?
7. Snapshot of a Crowd. Multitude to a single. Can you zoom in on a tree in a forest, grain in sand?
8. Dinosaur Skeleton. Addressing in many different ways, mocking the addressed.
9. Pi
The Lost Perfume
Did you get the whiff of
gift perfume that
cleaved from its companion
traveled in my pocket
and went back with me
Months and years later
its gone
gift perfume that
cleaved from its companion
traveled in my pocket
and went back with me
Months and years later
its gone
Ten Windows
On Ten Windows
Language wakes up in the morning on poetrys speaking
1. The stillness of the world before Bach . What will your 'before' poem be on?
Saturday, April 18, 2015
The last two seconds
Lions and Tigers
Excerpt
ivory figurine lady doctor
Poetry Prompt.
1. Both these poems below have their first lines as a rephrase of their titles. As if it were a question- answer response type or title standing out as something that came into place after the poem has happened.
The perpetual night she went into
Except for being it was relatively painless
2. Look at long explanation of words and see if they strike a chord
Close Observation Especially of one under Suspicion is from the dictionary's meaning of Surveillance
3. In Had there been, there is a corner, a murder takes place. Poets have a thing for corners.
In Sketching for poets, robert hass talks of a corner as an inspiration for a poem.
Do you have a corner like that?
4. What do you think of anything?
since a symbol is nothing but an illustration
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