Apron Anxiety

Peanut utter candies dipped in chocolate to look like Buckeye

There was a call regarding 'Bodies the exhibition'. Poetry is a dumb-ass spider  speaks to it.

Endings that take you to the beginnings

For most poets, the poem starts after the loss or destruction of an object.  In The Albatross, the poem begins with the invocation of the object and reaches its abrupt end.
In Ballad of Birmingham too there is a sudden break, while all along it seemed like a old goose rhyme.

Some men use leather jacket wipes to clean the car glass. There are leather protector sprays to protect them from rain.
Wilsons Leather

Pink-collar worker

Lidia's child - Restaurant man

When the author talks about cleaning his father's restaurant with Lye, somehow fires came into my mind (like the ones in my dream where it would spread fast but was not destructive or explosive).

Guazetto sauce

Cevapcici and ajvar
Boccie court
Chinotto (soft drink)
Cima alla genovese

Joe Bastianich jumps right into the business of restaurants. He talks about how much your food should cost to reap profits. 

Its ironic that army-navy sales club the surplus from both while they fight it out at army-navy games.
Parachute pants
Needlepoint

The author must have seen a lot of movies to keep referring to its and pieces of so many of them.

Melange of fragrances

I smell good
When I bring my wrist
close to my nose

When I walked into the store
An aged assistant took my
left hand and rubbed a body
cream like she was at my
Haldi ceremony

As I stopped at different scents
I applied different lotions
and now I can tell the one
I like but not by its name

Bath and Body Works

Curry leaves

Today my colleague left me branches of Curry leaves at my desk. Reading about its history that Johann Gerhard Konig was the botanist who identified it. I was reminded of how European countries sent their naturalist to the occupied countries for new samples of life and plants in 

Curry podi is a good use of it.
Sometimes they are banned from travelling states as they are detrimental to oranges, if infected.

Glass magazine

Drinking tea in a glass glass. Dont you want to see how much of tea is still there to enjoy.


This Testing on steel and glass, a small poem has rain anatomy in it. Island of reil, I would have at the most stretched my imagination from a physical location to an imaginary one in Greece. Thinking of Olympics, of all the feats that humans can do, do animals have competitions among themselves? Well, mating is one kind of Olympics. Back to the brain, which is also the home for Fissure of Sylvius. Mixtec.
The title reminds me of engraving done on glass in Things remembered. Once the engraving was done, I asked of the font on the glass. Vanessa. Just what we chose for our gift. Now I want to read Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

Fragment

After a walk, I retained  a small fragment of a rock. What astonished me of it was the thick white contour lines on a reddish brown rock.
Anacreontics
Qarrtsiluni theme

Volunteer

Candy striper
Carboy
Jerrycan
Carpet bag

Hiking National parks in one year

To get  a Mulligan
Children are not self aware.

Boiled eggs

I was peeling boiled eggs yesterday and felt that we should e in touch with poetry of everyday things. The usual
poets.org and poetryfoundation.org had more on other kinds of preparating of eggs - deviled eggs, scrambled eggs, eggs of birds.
How to boil an egg
Imagine stain glassed egg shell.
An interesting superstition about cracking a oiled egg shell to pieces. The article refers to a magical relation etween children and eggs. Our first is Humpty Dumpty.


Billy Collins elicits a mental laughter again.

Women in ballet

stop having periods
cannot have breasts

Omega 3 Vs Omega 6

Ancel Keys denounced fat in the diet as the culprit for heart diseases. His study is challenged by the authors of this book. He lived to see his 101st birthday. There must be some truth to his finding. It would have been more acceptable if it promoted a 'sin' - like a person who lived long despite smoking. 

Omega-3 is healthy to us, but not friendly to the 'food makers' in packaging, with its over reactiveness.
The relation between lower-body fat and DHA and its relevance for pregnant women is interesting.
Caesarian births, fistula without proper obstetric care, mothers plight with big babies in early history.
Leptin

Applying to pots and pans

The first page which began at 2/3rd mark did not grasp me. To be fair few sentences is not enough to grasp a person into the book but if the author bemoans her state in the first page there is not much to do going on with her. I couldnt pass the 'learn to cook' it in the subtitle of the book. I wondered if I would be lucky enough to just spot the cooking chapter. This book has words for chapters instead of boring, impersonal numbered chapters.

In the section on how she learnt to cook, the author begins with her infamous sandwich that her then boyfriend threw up after getting out of the house. Realising that cooking can be a useful arrow in her quiver when it comes to attracting men, she joins a cooking class, takes down notes feverishly. Starts easy with salads, takes a class to put together a thanksgiving meal. In the end she has a wonderful meal with her mom even though the hours leading her up to that point involve she and her mom at loggers with each other fighting for the stove.

I also didnt read the rest of the book as it was about finding a partner. Patience wears thin for the journey of finding partner for its fickle nature.


. The single and the rest are two camps - the residents of each, their own defenders.

- A  book, by the time you get it into your hands, you would have done away with the expecting, delivering of a baby and probably the nourishing part too.

Parenting worldwide

Parents for kids - About the book

1. Sleep

Different methods of sleep: Ferber method or the cry-it-out and Weissbluth method

  Ferber vs Weissbluth cry it out smackdown

Cucurbit


- for steaming vegetables for baby.

2. Food
Singing 'The chicken song' and 'The Rice song' to the baby depending on the food. (other food poems. songspoems and food-poems)

Chef Ann - The Renegade lunch lady

- Training chopsticks for kids.

- Baby shampoo hat


- Training potty seat with handlebars. Just like a mom pushing needs some place to hold on to.


- Teether toothbrush



 - Pacifier thermometer.

- womb doll to record utero heartbeat

3. Potty training
Chinese training pants

potty training early
quality care for children

Hikes

I suddenly realised that the first time I went hiking was not when my colleague asked me to join  her one summer at South mountains. Long time ago we had hiked  Khetri fort to see khetri mahal. One of the first historical places where I imagine dhow was the place when it was inhabited.
Another free style hikinh in Kulu Manali. Once when my leg slipped, I just realised how it could have been dangerous. A friend wanted to recall the mission. When we turned our backs, we realised how tough it is to climb down.

Akanksha clinic
an article

The author finds that colours in India are like in Frank Stella painting.
cashew curry
parval kurma
Lake Pichola
Lupron
zoladex

Franzen Closer

In Masafuera while chasing a rare bird Masafuera Rayadito, the author Jonathan Franzen compares his solitary life during that trip with that of Crusoe.
runlet

Roquentin like Robin Crusoe. Its ironic that Crusoe should fear the footprints of another person while from Cast Away that company is welcome.
Gesamtkunstwerk
song bird hunting in Cyprus
The Hundred brothers
In 'On autobiographical fiction' he answers four questions novelists are asked. He says that 'All loyalties, both in writing and elsewhere, are meaningful only when they're tested. being loyal to yourself as a writer is most difficult when you're starting out - when being a writer hasn't yet given you enough of a public return to justify your loyalty to it.'
Chinese Hwamei
Japanese White eye
The Chinese Puffin
He sells Alice Munro's Runaway.

By writing of the guilt felt in reading fiction, the author gives voice to my thoughts.

Judging chef-testant

Kibbutz

Why chef have buttons on both sides of the uniform?
Sea bean
Maitake Mushroom
Spanish inspired - using local ingredients to mimic classic dishes of foreign cuisine
Cooking under pressure that's reality
Endometriosis
Hamachi
short order cook
flavor profile
Water puppetry
Milk jam - Dulce de leche
After looking at Zucchini bread, I wondered if we could make cucumber bread
Kasha
calcot
barigoule
Tsukiji fish market
Ben Thanh Market
cha ca la vong
Carry over cooking
cyclo

hear

In hearing, i find that there is a window. when something is said at the moment when I think of something, I follow the rest but fill what has been said in the beginning.
impair and repair
Disease burden
Deaf culture
I took a online hearing test and there is no loss.
projectdeafindia.org

cost of obesity vs Hearing loss expense

Privacy and Publicity

buzzmachine

seeclickfix

privacy was once free publicity was once ..
German spas

Who not to tip?

Wow. There are so many people to be tipped at the hotels. Even maids at the motels.
The author visits various establishments with services that entail tipping. he suggests a reasonable percentage for each. he asks each of the service person how they would retaliate against a bad tipper.
Coffee cupping at Ristretto

Vienna

Alois Riegl - Each period has its value system
Oskar Kokoschka. His sculpture. Previous page has description of it. With its imperfectness, it is more open to the viewer. A perfect sculpture stops you at the surface.
Its interesting that Humphrey compares Nadia's abilities to prehistoric times, when we could have been autistic according to him. He says we exchanged the natural drawing abilities for language.

How much are birds like us?

Manuka tree

Ponga fern

What is it like to be a bat?
Birds can sleep with one eye. Their eye size can rule when they begin singing in the day.
Lombard effect - Birds sing louder in a noisy environment.
Sylph
Birds and taste buds
Looking at this cover, my dad asks me if it is a kind of a bird. He tells me that ducks sleep with their bills stuck in the feathers. He inquires if I didnt watch it at the birdwatching place that I took him to.

There are certain things in the realms of ornithology which commonly pass as instinct for want a better of name, but which really are a recognizable part of a bird's economy [way of life].  - John gurney.

The flamingo's smile - Gould's essay.

Birds hearing fluctuates over seasons. Imagine all of us not being able to hear for some time.

Thus spake objects

Mayan creation story - Man made from Maize

Sphinx of Taharqa

Clay model of cattle
Sutton Hoo
Lothair Crystal - I was thinking of the 2D pictures inside glass. Now you can make 3D too.
Chinese tang tomb figures - Heads always white.
Blue and white porcelain
huastec goddess
Bima puppet
Kakiemon elephants
Jahangir's memoir - gosa'in jadrup



Europeans discovered smoking very late - Neil MacGregor
Smoking began as a religious thing and then turned commercial. So did chocolate.