i find

those with a flair for the dramatic–quite magnetic

look elsewhere for your god

Do not try to find Salvation with your friend or lover. Be satisfied with a human being in this relationship and look elsewhere for your god.

Indeed. We  put expectations that could bog down a deity on mere humans…

Business wasn’t all he knew. He knew music, art. Had a heart.

[Keen and lovely man moved as in a dance]

by Lorine Niedecker

Keen and lovely man moved as in a dance

to be considerate in lighted, glass-walled

almost outdoor office. Business

wasn’t all he knew. He knew music, art.

Had a heart. “With eyes like yours I should think

the dictaphone” or did he say the flute?

His sensitivity—it stopped you.

And the neighbors said “She’s taking lessons

on the dictaphone” as tho it were a saxophone.

He gave the job to somebody else.

Source: the treasurebox

*Review to follow later today

Srinagar, dal lake : Road Trip to Kashmir Valley

Srinagar, dal lake : Road Trip to Kashmir Valley, originally uploaded by dushyant_fst.

I came upon this while searching for snapshots of Ladakh and Srinagar.

Its such a life-affirming picture–nature, color, and beauty all rolled into one!

R.I.P. J.D. Salinger

what my copy looks like

Here are some of the words that stood out…

“It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so–I don’t know–not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid, necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless–and sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.”
- J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

Ben Spungin at The French Laundry, c. 1998

Ben Spungin at The French Laundry, c. 1998, originally uploaded by shunafish.

Gems in the virtual wasteland

This is where I’ll be sharing articles, blogs, and thoughts of interest that I’ve come across recently.

The philosopher-citizen by Charles Taylor

In our time, we can almost fear that the public intellectual is an endangered species. On the one hand, the role can be trivialized by the proliferation of collective petitions for fashionable causes which it is very easy to sign. On the other, in the making of policy the intellectual is often replaced by the expert, master of some narrow field, who is rarely asked to decide on the use to be made of his expertise. . .

Courtesy : Chapati Mystery-Sepoy’s post titled Word

Comments to follow soon.

Farmer’s Market

Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket Produce Scan of the Week, originally uploaded by ranjit.

There is a Farmer’s Market that is set up nearly three times a week close to where I work. I plan to drop by today and check out the sort of veggies are in vogue this winter. My guess would be tons of magenta-red bunches of radishes, floppy heads of lettuce, and of course, carrots.

stars that you are

I was looking over the ever-expanding list of poems ,filed under the green poetry tab in my G-mail in box, when I realized a pattern emerging. Stars. Most of these have something to do with stars, the cosmos, or at least some mention of them.  Also, those very verses or stanzas end up as a status msg on g-talk. I think I’ll share them here; they might entice another web-lurker’s imagination, like they did mine.

jotted down…

I have a pocket-size notebook that holds unedited moment-captures like this . I wish that someday (soon) I will  have the patience and the persistence to re-work them.