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.