Todays review

Yesterday, I came across Peculiar life of Sundays book. It didnt go home with me. But here I am thinking of sunday, catch-up-with-the-world day. The world's fitness standard for a 'not poor' by push up numbers is way high. I am 4 times away from it. Leaning against a stability ball, feel like I have found a non-lazy hammock and with it a haven in the desert.

If childhood sundays were spent watching cartoons, here I am plotting ways to become one.

A bankruptcy idea. Who is willing to bet on not finding green bark many feet above the ground? When I saw a Jacaranda branchlet, green, I thought it might still be a branchelle and so its still in its baby colors. When I looked to the left and right, I found many other branches standing straight with their trunk parts a smooth betelnut color, devoid of leaves and the rest above was green. Have to make more observations and see what happens with these as they grow.

Bob Serger. Kenny Rogers.

Notes from the desert

Drinking more water than is normally possible.
Today the heat made pathy possible between the illegal immigrants and the border patrol with a warning out for the lives from the mercury touching the century.

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GulfCoast

Reading this essay, I am reminded of an incident when I was a child. A man who worked for the electric department, went up the pole to repair and died of a shock.



New letters

Notable essays 2008

Intimacy
How to succeed in po biz
Not found not lost
Luna park
High country news
The Sun magazine
The Chronicle of higher education
Rick Bass
Elizabeth Benedict

Architecture

Is architecture a way to fix the building in your memory?

Life out of daily

Around 5.15 I hear the mourning dove's awake call. Just like yesterday. Do birds sing like we think? All the time.

How can a jacaranda have just one clump of flowers? Difficult to trace in the evening, lost to the eye in the sky's same melding color.

Malvern Waters. Lycergus Cup.

A Womans Fate
Reading the poetry of Rilke Translated and edited by Edward Snow. Poetry in German on the left.

Now I am adding pineapple juice to agua to make it more agreeable. But a certain glossy repelled it.

Today I caught the 'try again' song on the radio. Long time ago, I wanted to know more of it. This time I caught more lyrics- 'you can dust it off' and try again. More clues. More likely to find the song. Then the RJ announced the song to be Aliyah's.
In the afternoon I fortified myself with a leche to stay till a meeting which was scheduled for a next week.

Patanera. Zarzuela.
Reading Iberia

Enoki Mushrooms or Noodles?

Universal machine

Looking at the capitalist organization of time II, it would be mind numbing to work with machines that make same kinds of dolls everyday. There should be a machine, that can make all things that a family will need. A machine like freshly ground peanut butter, which anyone can make for themselves as and when they need it. Like laundromats. Like custom teddy bear stores.
Or the workers get to rotate the machines they work on. Reconfigurable machines. Modules.

Mind matters

Looking at capitalist organization of time:
If a person has to work a lot, for a person who likes to keep himself busy, the work will not bother him. If a person has to appreciate idleness he should be conditioned to want leisure.

Giardia

Last week on a hike to Havasu falls, a look at the aquifer brought about a doubt if the clear water would cause Giardia. When I heard this word, I asked what it was, even after being told about it. Somehow, the word didnt seem it could mean that. Sounds more like a chocolate.

Recurrence

When I saw this picture on cacique crema box, I recognized Vicente Fernandez. I heard of him just a week ago.