Aneesh Sathe

As I start to build up my web presence during, what seems to be the fall of twitter, coming across article like these is heartening. Glen says: The hardest thing we can do, but the most vital, is to start building amateur websites again! […] Building amateur web pages increases the quality of content on the web as well. A status update or a tweet on a huge social network is a lot like fast food; it’s immediately satisfying, but it’s not good for you, and ultimately leaves you feeling empty. But writing content for your own site - something that you feel so passionate about that you needed to …

After an unusually wet season the wildflowers have gone into a superbloom. I can’t seem to get enough of them.

Little feet waddle over the bookshelf. Little hands grab books made for little hands. It’s his favourite, a cardboard box of four books: numbers, animal sounds, alphabet, and objects. Illustrated by Eric Carle, each page has one a lovely illustration accompanied by one or two words. We pick a book, as we do several times a day and what feels like several hundred times on the weekends. Usually the routine goes we open a book, I point at the picture and say the word often with some sound effects. Usually Aarin makes encouraging noises, stays till page four then goes and does the next thing but …

We've been around since dawn And our day is yet long We were lucky To have Orcas In the afternoon Before our huts Of fire, steel, and stone This Earth strode alone Palaces Of light, blood, and bone Ever changing, yet ever same Characters with shared masks But a different name At the tips of pyramids, The giants dance. Even as we steal the bricks, For a second Of prosperity's glance Our murderers are microscopic, They train their harpoon. We were lucky To have Orcas In the afternoon

I carry, The world’s sounds with me. A cat’s satisfied purr, On a hot day the fan’s whirr