Fate of my hear phones

Does any one know of foot resistant ear phones? I thought the last time I ill treated ear phones was smashing one of it under my heavy heels, not intentionally and not my fault too if the slender wire wants to dangle and touch the core magnet earth.
Not believing the chipped ear phone I have now, takes me back to yesterday's what seemed like a little over benign brush with it. My bare heel spelled doom on it.

Claims

of American coots over the lake as never before
of a kid on a table closest to him, his mini lunch case and father in tow
of two kids on their mini bikes as the father walks
of bikers on unpaved transverse paths
of a great blue heron on a rental boat
of a man fishing with two rods
of two girls on a magazine at a coffee shop while the father orders

How to appreciate poetry

Things I woud like to remember when I read the next poem:

Charles Simic - Poems are other people's snaphots in which we recognize ourselves.
Donald Hall - Literature starts being personal but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.
Literature is human inside talking to human inside.
Shakespeare - The truest poetry is he most feigning.
Oscar Wilde - Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell the truth
Ted Hughes - Perhaps its the need to keep it hidden that .. makes it poetry

Alone with all that could Happen, David Jauss

Animal world

Ringed seal
Ribbon seal

For later day

chocolate maki - use genoise
quenelle
almond tuiles

Tree World

Forest Redbud pansy
Hawthorn
Korean Dogwood
Pacific Madrone
Purple leaved thundercloud plum


This list here is to be populated with its sighting info.

Value of things

There is an illustrator who is more comfortable working on cheap paper as it does not come with the pressure of having to do it all perfect. Artists of olden times were at home working with valuable medium, either they were too skilled or there was too much raw material at their disposal.

Reading that crows and bowerbirds collect pretty things reminds me of a story in a book we read in elementary school.

Watchfulness

But there are many differences between the two species (crows and ravens), and if we can train ourselves to move beyond our overreliance on color in the identification of birds(as with most other things),it becomes clear that not all the differences are subtle ones.
Crow Planet. Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness. Lyanda Lynn Haupt. pg 21.

Art in movies

While watching a movie last night, The Doctor, a photo in his office caught my attention.

Building conservation

Has a building been built with future erosion in mind? Like how cup cakes are not filled with batter to the brim accounting for overflow. Will the pillars have to bulge out to look perfectly cynlindrical later on? When is that time? Dear Mr. Keats was your thing of beauty so from the moment you saw it and did it last long? Did the joy outlast the thing?

Discobulus is a copy of a lost bronze. The value of the found ones inreases with the knowledge of history of the middle ages[1].

1.In the course of the Middle Ages nearly all the bronze sculptures of gods,rulers and athletes that once populated ancient cities and sanctuaries had been melted down for weapons and wars. To wake the dead. Marina Belozerskoya. pg 12

Those little brains

Are Brussel sprouts shavings sweet and delicious?
Gourmet today

Staff at store

It should be easy to find brown sugar
in the same aisle as sugar
but golden brown sugar,
light brown sugar
dark brown sugar

Which of these is the
real brown sugar?
The lady in the blue walking
the aisle knew what goes
into a cake pineapple upside down

The Mountain and the Squirrel

This morning I was reminded of a poem when I came across - The mind is unaffected even by boons and curses, even as the firmly established mountain is not moved by the horns of a little beast in Supreme Yoga - and wondered if that was the first time I encountered the word mountain.
The poem had mountain and wind competing to prove their strength.

more on mystical brain

I asked my friend if she liked the next song as the singing song was reaching its end. Then followed an unexpected silence which is about to burst into a song, only I didnt place it in the automatic memory or the unconscious sequence, cause I never liked this song and always skipped it, loathed it enough to deny its existence on the CD.

Alates

It has always amazed me how alates get into the closed light fixtures after a nights rain.

10.27.12
Many have wondered about this. Tell Me if you have heard this one

Of animals

Not only does the body of this Tokay gecko look stuffed like a soft toy even the seams of its mouth seem to be stitched ending in empty pursed lips.
If man did evolve from monkeys, all the 'not-so-morning' persons must have evolved from the Owl monkeys and fake their ears.

Just when I was thinking that premonkeys look like pandas, they even eat like them - bamboos.

Brains secret desires

Like a cell going about its growth, autonomously there was a thread going on in my head of procuring coffee the way I want it and found myself in the cafeteria. Without having acknowledged to myself that I want coffee, I was in the deep of getting the taste sweet and the sip hot. Especially beverages, taste better when we have them after we want. So its a first to have it without thinking about it.
When I saw the pale cream shirt with horizontal stripes of brown getting darker as it goes down, I exclaimed," this is why I had coffee". Having seen this old navy shirt reminded me of coffee more as color links but not as a craving for it. clearly the color coffee - drink(noun) coffee - drink(verb)coffee was bypassed.
Can a part of us do things without being told to by ourself?

eats

Recently my roomates mom sent some home made goodies and she didnt know that they were called Chorafali. Gokarkaya is Guvar.

Let the battery die

In not so destructive terms, let your music player be devoid of charge (as it always must when you begin on a walk), else how will you listen to the chatter of the birds?

Shifting pain

two pains are unbearable
Get rid of one

If the other is annoying
exchange it for another

While balming one
itch under sole
dont get a severe another
pain in the arch

Todays Walk

Today I began the first long walk out of the season in day time. It being perfect weather of 81F highest, I saw a fellow lady enjoying the same in a white T shirt and jeans leaving behind her a big set of Purple Tires staked into the ground.

I saw some Kill deer on a lawn of a company(in flight) and at the lake. A male house finch near a lawn of resident property.

The lake has these nice words on a tablet. One of them listed all the birds that you could find there some time or the other. Phainopepla. Theres Mosquito fish too. Now their history aint very good aye(left over influence from last night movie. happy-go-lucky ). They took over the job of Rainbowfish and left them hungry and dead.

Equipped Vs Disadvantaged

When I read of Karen Wynn's work on infant cognition in Embracing the wide sky, it made me wonder what use is it gonna be knowing if infants can sort of count at that early an age. Other than the joy of finding and understanding.
Reading of all the wrong stuff growing in his head unbeknownst to Max Truex when he was alive and fighting Parkinson's and Jesse Gelsinger led into the cave of death without warning, I wonder if all the world's acquisition of knowledge is to solve some mutated cases, if experts can only chew on abnormalities, what happens to the normal lot? Or are the extreme cases many enough to keep the experts busy? How about lesser experts for finding solution to singularities, while greater experts work at lifting the whole curve up?

Multani Mitti

In ways we dont know, we pass the culture.
I read a line about the material available in unjab notlending itself to the usual sandstone Mughal architecture in 'the Majesty of Mughal Decoration: the Art and Architecture of Islamic India' by George Michell. I was intrigued about architecture in Punjab and was led to Multan. And turns out that its no new place, we have already used the clay from there.

Hazelnut Icecream

Mmm.. as the nuts kept appearing .. my smile kept getting wider.. still I wouldnt want to be 100.

When Tasteless is not bad

I recently tried Taro wafers. Now the first thing that happens to me, when I hear of Taro is the effect of tamarind and what curry it can become.. From the picture.. the taro cubes look more like baon cubes. The wafer tasted sweet and nothing taro...I dont know what to expect of finely powdered taro.. It just seemed more sweet...

Hot Wheels Marie

When I looked at Berta Marie biscuits(bought from Oriental Store), acclaiming themselves to be fashioned after Spain maria biscuits.. I was surprised to find that they looked exactly like the Britannia Marie biscuits I knew.... Heres's a product thats travelled from London to Spain, India and many other countries and retained its look and taste.