Title

of a poem. Lets you choose which one to read.
Poem for S about the power of alphabets.

picture 2. What do we want in childhood?

Musings of the day

Today I saw the picture of lake solitude in Yellowstone mountain. And another of the mountain snow reflected in the lake. I dont think I have seen that ever before.
Looking at the blue, red, yellow birds on Audubon calendars I wondered how the colours that I knew for birds until then were only black, grey, white, green.
I dreamt of rattle snakes, must be the effect of the news of it being found in some one's home. guess what I could do in this dream, fly higher than above. Then I found myself smoking. And a new big home. Some one else's.

Bloggers

Author: Hugh MacLeod

other blogging success stories  :

avc - venture capitalist

John t Unger - iron firebowl sculptor

Austin Kleon - artist and writer

Megan MacArdle - economist

First hike

I had to wake up at 4.30 to make it to the hike. I slept early at 9.30. At 12.30 I woke up and could not sleep till 3.30. My friend and I were late. we reached the parking lot at 6.30, while we should have been there at 6.00.

Jun 2007

Stripped of shots

In the recent past, I had trouble cherishing my favourite White Mocha. Towards the end, I could not have it anymore and the effects of caffeine would roll in- like my heart beating in my stomach.
Yesterday, I came up with a brilliant idea of having the cake, without hurting the tooth- the shots had to be put to sleep. The drink has now bared to white chocolate.
Makes me almost think that another barista's shots (forgot)

Miniature

Fascination

A train on a bridge stalls
with water in the lake still

Water floods a tunnel elsewhere
another yesterday

My illogical nostalgia includes stories from school but does not end with it. Weeping Willow was the last story in the text book of that year. 

Books

from a family thrift shop.
I bared the heat
and a pulled tooth

Object of Suspicion

In Roald Dahl's 'The Umbrella Man', the twelve year old girl says that her mother is especially suspicious of two things - strange men and boiled eggs. While these are not the only things, one should be wary of.. One thing that every woman should put to a strict test is that shoe.

Condescendingly the torture born
skin worn

with the shoe worn wears  skin on the sides and other points of contact if any.

Fables and foibles

A while ago I was asking my mom for folk tales. After a week she recalled a camel and fox story. (second in the link). The only change being instead of eating chickens and vegetables, in the story that she read as a child, the duo target a sugarcane field. This version makes the fox more human with its sweet cravings.
Two animals crossing the river reminded me of scorpion and frog story in

. This story, Wilson says is a fable about the dark side of human nature.
A while ago I read 

and always used to wonder how are we to understand humanity through another species. But recently on NPR I heard of observational studies of puffins and then it flashed that when we find some interesting behaviour in another species, we start to look around and explore other birds around. To understand the behaviour, we translate it into our life and know about ourselves as humans.

A review of Wilson's book

Ground zero

Five men agree to stand directly under an exploding nuclear bomb reminded me of  24 season 2

Puppet playing Red Chamber - A horror

Red chamber has 400 characters in it. Curious about Mahabharatha, I see that it has about  110 Characters not counting the 100 Kauravas.
The book could use some character merging for modern readers.

When you are up for equations

I hadnt heard of Midas equation.

Falsifiability

Paper quilling

When I saw this paper quilling piece at 6bittersweets, I didnt give much thought on how its done as it was late in the night. Now I see that it uses a tool and paper strips.

Words meet

I was trying to answer What word will you rarely/never use in a poem?. The correct answer is a word that I dont know. But for kicks, I opened the dictionary to find a word that I hate. I came across nurse maid and then 'milk maid' figured. Milkmaid as a conjunction of two words. In that dictionary search, when I came across 'Mongoose', it seemed like I was looking at a stranger I was tring to place.

While thinking of folktales, I was reminded of  Burra katha. I watched it once as a kid in my grandfather's village during Dussehra late night.

The scale in this cover page being different fits well into the picture, breaks a barrier in our head and creates an alter-image of the distorted proportions. Mind morphing without the unease of surrealism.
Now I am interested in knowing how surrealists think.

Barge pole

When a reviewer talked of books that 'I wouldn't touch with a barge pole' in writing book review, i wondered what a barge pole is doing here and learn that its part of an idiom.

When nature takes over

One morning, I looked up in the restroom, I was shocked a bit. There was a hole with brown and metal stuff. I forgot that the leak from the top was being worked at. How horrible should one find sinkhole under a home?

Lots of good points

Margaret Overton

There is stable writing. But no great hook into the future of the book.

I like how she makes observations from her medical professional life.

She is candid about how ugly the end of a marriage can get.

Witty biography

Author: Alexander Masters

The novelty of the biography with the subject and the biographer in an interactive mode wore off after a while. The sketches are page turners, some math is well shown in figures.

Grief in words

The line length in this book reminded me of  

Both are of grief due to parental loss. One is prose and the other is poetry but the length of thought is similar. 

I shuddered from reading the prose, as it is full sentences that can hold you caged.

In Morrison's poetry, the thought is contained in the line instead of extending into the next lines but an abstractness protects the reader.

How brave and trusting are the poets who leave a word of a sentence as an overhang into the next line.

Another went both ways of writing prose and poetry : Meghan O Rourke

Its in the eyes

Many Blue eyes of Aequipecten irradians

Copepod telescopic eyes
pupils - oblique, w shaped
Leatherback turtles secrete viscous tears to remove extra salt and so bottlenose dolphins.
artifical tear drops
some animals have no eyelids

Movie jig saw

At a get together we saw Bobbili Raja. It was like guess which movie has this scene been snagged from. The songs are good but the rest of it seems like a badly crafted serial.
Water collecting scene is from The Gods Must Be Crazy.

sunshine law