poems

Both these poems have been used as epigrams in Anne Lamott's 'traveling Mercies' book.

Another quote used in the same book.

Spider Monkeys

I wasnt prepared for a shrunk image of monkeys at the Monkey Village. In 'Wild Justice', a study, it was interesting to read of one of the priviliges of affiliative behavior. A point that I liked in this book of two opposing concepts of Darwin's survival of the fittest and Kropotkin's Mutual Aid's role in evolution.
Phoenix zoo had whistling ducks too in the exhibit as both come from the same South America.
Unwanted Norway rats. Hanta Virus.

Listen to your author

What is the difference between an accomplished writer and one who is interested in writing? For one, he can say what a novice only thinks he wants to say and two he can convince that it had to be said. He can write what he thinks and just call it a book. Although I would not call it a book in the regular sense, I would like to read what an author like him thinks. Is he the thinker who writes?
Moral of the story. Man has made a big mess of the earth. Not new to our knowledge. But authors writing on an issue in current life makes them so easy to relate to.
12.31.05

Yesterday's question

Reading of a book in NYTimes, I wonder what might ethics in archaeology refer to. Terry Tempest in Refuge with her frequent digs, hints in pg 190 and I get that the excavators could appropriate the digs before they get into Museum Inventory Management System

sense and predation

While deer evade us through their sense of smell, another set of life, mosquitoes find us through the same sense.

Smell is not the only sense that aids animals. What does heat sensing fall under? 'moment of Impact' video on PBS about snakes thermal mapping and woodpeckers with their flexible tongues that wrap around their skulls to handle the pressure while they tap at the wood made me wonder how todays generation can learn so much more.

In Remembering smell, in the 'smell, memory' chapter, author Bonnie says that, Memories are remade with each act of rememberance and its evolutionary purpose was to enable learning; thus it must be highly fexible and subjective.

Experimenting even when the lab shuts down. olfactory cuisine. Achatz survived tongue cancer.

Word book

Meaning of Tingo

This book has words from other languages for which there are no equivalents in English.
The words have been sorted into chapters with hello ( the first any one should know in any language),clothing,love,marriage,divorce and so on...in the order they occur.
There are boxed English words 'False friends' which mean quite something else in other languages.
It is extremely interesting to see some 20 odd words for camels, snow and Thailand's capital when spelled totally takes up three lines .

June 8, 2006

Essay series

Best American Essays 2007

Afternoon of the sex children - Mark Greif
Shakers - Daniel Orozco
Passion flowers in Winter - Molly Peacock

writing:

Dragon Slayers - Jerald walker
Disappointment - Richard Rodriguez

May 24, 2010