Spare them Animals

When I came across ligers, my imagination went really wild and I thought it was lizards crossed with tigers, but the hybridisation by accident or intent is between lions and tigers.

From what they sing

Listening to a dog in the neighborhood dog bark, along with Grover Washington's jazz, the bow wow wow seems musical. Music with its variations, is such an accomodating art that you can go at it as cotton candy and keep filling your bag and keep it light. How you hurry to share what you find in a song to tell someone of the form that a thing has taken. A form enough to be what you would have told if you knew it well enough yourself. By latching onto one form, you have beaded it into your hair for ever, looking for the matching beads on others.

Color blurs

As I look at yellow Gazanias and then white ones with purple streaks out of the core, I wonder why or how there are two flowers of same kind but different color. I am then reminded of yellow Columbines that I saw on a hike followed by a picture of a purple Columbine Thinking if such a thing is possible in birds.

History in Brand

I looked at Barnum's animal crackers in the afternoon on a colleagues desk. Later in the day I came across P T Barnum in Wild Blue
Thinking about infamous eponymous historical events, Madoff pulling the Ponzi scheme. Madoff's name will be lost but for the good, history does not have to be record of every event, especially if its something we are better off without those events.

Hope for Animals and their world

When I first saw the cover of this book, I dont think I was ready for the book to read a tome of a single person and a chimpanzee. It is possible cos of the experience of Wauchula Woods accord book about retired celeb animals did not leave a good taste. Charles Siebert's writing was good but the meaning he found in his encounters with the animals is locked in him.
When I read of Jane Goodall being the first person to notice that chimpanzees do 'tool use' in Timeless Earth, the neglected book got a 'pop out'. The book greatly enchances the knowledge of dying species, lost and found species. The efforts of some people in saving species are commendable. Sometimes people come up with such ingenious methods - like feeding ficus to an animal which likes gooey stuff, condors end up feeding glass and other dangerous stuff to their babies, these were removed by the enthusiasts monitoring their entry into wild.

The writer as migrant

I have never thought about what it means for a writer to write in a second language.

The Professor and other writings

The essays on Art Pepper, Georgia O'Keefe and Agnes Martin are about the artists with a person side to them.

The joy of knowing

I think today I understand the meaning of The Good bad and the ugly , not all of it, but I have made peace with the good and bad, need more enlightenment on spotting the ugly. The fun and fat of Mayonnaise.

Why we need flowers?

Few days ago while leaving the apartment for work, I looked at a tree in the yard and wondered what it was. Today while running errands of tugging the grocery in, amidst a zigzag of branches I spotted lavender flowers and now I know the tree.

More claims

A man used a stick to urge him forward on a skateboard instead of his foot. This is paddle skateboarding. The stick was stuck into a tennis ball.
A kid whose steps were balancing the heavy box he was carrying. I peeped a little to find a pet pup in it.
A dog with a pig snout.