Taken in July of 2015 near Manali
DAILY PHOTO: Deodar Forest
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DAILY PHOTO: Ganga Aarti Brahmin
POEM: Blender Manual
I read you like a person reads
his blender manual.
It’s a necessity–legally obligatory.
But meaningless because if a word falls
in a blender manual, does anyone read it?
No one cares until someone loses a thumb.
Words are nudged and danced
into perfect clarity in seven languages.
But it’s 100 pages for a three button machine.
“Frappe” must have a long and convoluted definition.
[Poem #2: National Poetry Month]
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POEM: Eustress
I stress that eustress
is the best stress.
From time to time,
I must confess
I’ve made a mess
doing more
succeeding less.
In a mad dash to impress,
badgered by self-duress,
taking matters to excess,
brewing up toxic distress.
Assess,
progress,
but don’t obsess.
[Poem 1: National Poetry Month]
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DAILY PHOTO: Pink
DAILY PHOTO: Frangipani Flowers
Taken in March of 2015 at Savandurga
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POEM: Neurochemical Grace
Dopamine Model; Source: Wikipedia
I’m grateful for the ability to be grateful.
For gratefulness causes dopamine and serotonin levels to rise.
I’m grateful for the fine people in my life.
For delightful company causes oxytocin and vasopressin spikes.
I’m grateful for my health.
[Or am I healthy because I’m grateful?]
For gratitude correlates to superior health across several indicators.*
I’m grateful for my food,
which is well-balanced to provide the brain glucose,
while offering all the
vitamins, minerals, and amino acids
my neurochemistry needs.**
*Sansone, R.A. and Sansone, L.A.2010. Gratitude and Well Being. Psychiatry. 7(11): 18-22.
**Gibson, G.E. and Blass, J.P.1999. “Nutritional and Functional Neurochemistry.” Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Aspects, 6th ed. NCBI: Bathesda, MD.
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POEM: Bats Over Bangalore
dusk descends
&
bats wing away
abandoning bamboo stanchions
that flex, creak, and groan
during their daily hang
flying like waves of B-52’s
on a doomsday run–
buggy Armageddon
but bugs are too numerous
and
small-brained
to be decimated
it takes giant ganglia
to produce a proper doomsday
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DAILY PHOTO: Random [but Colorful] Group Photo, Savandurga
Taken in March of 2015 at Savandurga
Occasionally, I get asked to snap a picture of people I don’t know. Usually this happens in off-the-beaten path locales. In this case, it was Savandurga, a hill in the countryside between Bangalore and Mysore that’s a popular day trek destination.
