Some packing space

On wednesdays we wore white canvas shoes with green soles

Olivine

Olivine is soothing to look at.

I love books with maps

When I started reading the book, at the line 'The Grand Bazaar itself begins on the other side of the Egyptian bazaar,..' .. I had to stop reading. I couldnt resume without fixing this place on map. Had I flipped through the next few pages, I would see this nice blown up map of the bazaar showing details of the kind of merchandise sold in the streets.

Descriptions of travelling merchants using the bazaar for safekeeping sent me imagining to the extent of seal done in lacquer.

Imagine a real procession.

Some pictures are like that of a minaret lying on a table, view of a local bazaar through a hatch grilled window(so much easier to draw) will make you want to know more about them.

Jul 25,2010.

Advantages of Google books

1. You can use them as inspiration for your own writing
2. You can make up stories for kids using it as a starting board.

Fact and fiction

Sometimes when I come across fiction and have read of a similar situation as a fact, I just think that let the fiction writers imagine, then they will show you the best and the worst possible of the world.

In 2009, we have heard of the sole survivor of a plane crash. I was reminded of this reading of Hatchet.

Reading a fictional story The Age of Analysis, I was reminded of Growing up Jung.

Apprehensions of a new sibling in Julius, the Baby of the world are not very different from that in "the wing Rocker and the Baby" in Discovery

How long is the spelling of your city?

Yesterday I was looking at a map and found a place called Truth or Consequences. Its long name kind of got me interested in it. Theres a story there. If you lie, you die?
Does anyone remember the town that changed its name to Google for a while.
But there are places with even longer names.

Sorry for the interruption

I find it funny imagining the 'desrt rose' song being played when a radio has technical issues.