Push cart 2010

I want to speak for just one essay - 'The Sutra of Maggots and Blowflies' by Sallie Jiko Tisdale.In the essayists words it is a rewrite of Dogen's Sutra of Mountains and Waters as a natural history of flies, in Buddhist terms. I read this essay last night. And today I could make something of a housefly. I saw the four stripes on its gray thorax. I saw the 'halteres'. If I can tell that much of a fly, it has to be a dead one with its limbs detaching at the slightest touch. The fly is on a path of decay. The essay not only leaves you with the knowledge of what happens to our bodies when we die but it goes into suffering identified by Buddha.
It is a long essay. If you cant get your hands on it, you should read the excerpts of it on 'Dharma Rain'. [...]. After reading this essay I was reminded of an essay 'Not found Not Lost' by Joel Agee.

Other essays that I liked and recognized from magazines: 'Time and Distance overcome' by Eula Biss and 'How to succeed in Po Biz' by Kim Addonizio

Jul 17,2010

A poem by its other name

This poem with title 'race' had me guessing the end with some injustice. Race is such a high power word that it masks its homonymity.
Homonym

A summer day

we felt a cool breeze
like we were by the beach
As unbelievable as the mirage
it did happen

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