snow mountain

The clouds behind the superstition mountain in a higher cone like a shadow.

Evening

Eating samosa yesterday, aloo with the amchur taste. When we eat things, over many times, at different places, the sameness of the encounter of a familiar food on the buds, builds on and you havent had the samosa just that one time but over years, the affair has been going on, reliving it each time.
At the end of it, we would have had a huge samosa like the big biscuit ad of a car insurance company. Like how a bunch of candles fuse into one in the heat. In an imaginary funeral rite, it would be a mighty bolillo roll and a half chewed milk truck. Add to the list,Giant apple, orange like Roald Dahl's cherry.
Talking of which, a limo followed by many cars flashing their hazard lights on the highway, was the first time I saw it being used as the exit chariot.

Many Loves, a poem by Allen Ginsberg sung on A prairie Home Companion.

Seraphine

Books

at the library book drop.
The Agony and the Ecstasy, a biographical novel of Michelangelo by Irving stone.
The Butcher boy

What lies ahead?

on Berchtesgadener Hochthron mountain in North face movie, Kurz and Hinterstoisser look like they are at the edge of a ship. Mountains as look out points.

Azzannare (Italian)

to sink ones teeth into

This has been todays motto until the visix Imaging software let 18 pictures of my teeth be mounted on it. If the xray machine could wonder, it wouldnt pass up thinking if the tube holder was focused on the right end of the dental patient. this patient would not mind if told that the teeth xray actually showed toes. Humors the dentist too. Whne I asked the assistant what the film holder was called.
'Rinn'1 she said.
'Wren' I heard.
Rinn expected a wide mouth. For a narrow mouth, resourceful assistant came up with a 'Snapper ray' which looked like a mix of clothespin with a sharp snap, geometry compass. Life saver.

Dental terms: Occlusal, Lingual, buccal, Overbite.

I saw a gray bird with black on the tail end. May be catbird. It played with the air for a while like it were dribbling.

1 Rinn

When they report

All the media, newspaper and radio were trying to open my ears to the 'construction sounds' going on in the neighborhood, or wait is it in the world cup? I cant believe I bore that noise thinking that the sawing was going on at some building.
All in a click.

wordy distraction

This morning between birdwatching and making a lunch appointment, I had some miscalculated time on my hands. I had books but I didnt have the space. When I took the via point as a starbucks in a safeway, I was hoping for a place to sit. There were places to sit with either too much sun light facing east or no natural light inside. Shade of a tree next to a bike rack was the pit stop. When I had enough sun that I could take, I shut off boston cream pie's chatter and went with Tiramisu cake. Before billing , what should catch my eyes, a shelf full of books under the reading tree program. So now I have a Collins Italian- English dictionary to pair with a websters Spanish-English one.
A Different Angle - Fly fishing stories by women -
Wild Animus - Rich Shapero
Free falling and other student essays
1989 Europe- Fielding guide
On the road with Charles Kuralt
52 Florida weekends - Janet & Gordon Groene.

That was aperfect distraction for a time that I would have suffered to spend inside missing the sun. I was so much into sifting the books that I missed an announcement about some cake, which my Tiramisu reminded a lady next in line.

During a dry spell of new non fiction

Alive Day - Tom Sullivan
A blind man and his dog. Does the dog understand that his friend is blind? What about blind animals? Atleast for rats, rabbits and dogs there doesnt seem to be much future if they are blind in both eyes. Their behaviour has been reported in popular science monthly Nov 1902 - Apr 1903
(Science gleanings in Animal Life - John Gibson)
Blind fish in mammoth caves. Flat fish. Is there really a cap on snakes venom production?
Proceedings of the society for Experimental zoology and medicine is a very easy to read science book.

Older adults

Recently I heard that IV therapy was not recommended for an elder person. I did wonder why. The V in it has the answer. With varicose veins and complications of overfluiding and haematoma, it does sound like more trouble. Growing up, paediatric is a much loved subject, but geriatrics seems like a field on its own.

Under test

I am undergoing a test now. Test for TB. I havent reached the quarter mark. An interesting day at the clinic. I learn a thing about my self. My left little finger does not pulse. Should I believe the Finger pulse oximeter? Mostly because its all bone. Its a pity that little fingers and toes get so undermined. Ever notice how the tiny toe gets squeezed and out of shape with no 'leg room'.
The doctor asked if I took BCG. If I were from my parents generation, I might have scars, the vaccination marks to tally. I just read of the small pox vaccination and the bifurcated needle. You dont want to know any more of it. If you thought this calls for the curtains, we should all throw a brownie party to whoever replaced
tine test with any other test. Why positively its like four dentists at work on your teeth. That experience is its own story.
I ask about BCG. I find it fascinating that there are ways to learn of vaccines administered, other than the marks. I have not thought much about vaccines other than that they need to be taken. But on careful pondering over it, it seems like staging a drill in your body for a fire or such adverse event. Its a watermark that stays in your body for as long as you live.


How about a scare tactic to make children learn their geography? BCG vaccine's efficiency varies with longitude.

A parent tried many visits to a government hospital for BCG to her kid, but they were always out of stock.

The Images we carry

long narrow roll of paper, Rene used as a stethescope

Stop and smell the flower?

is not a good idea for all
If a plant is on the left
on the lunch table and you
are leaning to the right,
with your nose suffused
with the natural smell
Now you know another reason
for the artifical in
the flower vase.

once for all you will know
to stop and smell the flower
or not
If the bees didnt swarm
the flowers, an allergic person
could help Solomon
sometimes bees swarm people

Gag gift

A colleague once gave me a pack of wood shavings claiming it to be a mensa puzzle. As kids, we marveled at a perfect peeling of a wooden pencil with the sharpener, hoping it wouldnt break off.

Habitational Expressionism

I came across this term in this book weird California. I have seen auto dealers offices each replete with a theme. One office was a mini Monroe museum. Another had a 5 feet model of an airplane hanging from the top. I am likely to store parts of a tree - seeds, pods, flowers - collected on walks.

Yesterday while taking the turn to Mission Viejo, I wondered what laguna Niguel on right had. This weird CA book had the answer. I heard of the annual event last July, but did not register the name of the place. In Old town San Diego, a look at 'Whaley House' had me thinking on the lines of what cuisine it might be while the building seems to be content haunted. Same is the case with Hotel del Coronado.