Steven Forth

1st lines

My way doesn't lead past your house.
My way leads past nobody's house.

And yet I keep going astray
(especially in the spring)
can't help yearning for company, like
a dog beneath the moon.

Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Christopher Whyte, May 14, 1920

#poetry #1stlines #Moscow #translation

Very fresh corn only needs to be boiled for about two minutes!

I became aware of this book through American writer and translator Lydia Davis essays. She highly recommends it.

Thankful rain on
Dry grass before the
Fires take root

#poetry #haiku #summer #rain #wildfire

Cod sizzling
In bacon fat with
Green tomatoes

—

Corn boiled
Two minutes served
With salt

#poetry #haiku #summer

Design books

Artful Sentences - Syntax as Style by Virginia Tufte

www.edwardtufte.com/book/artful-...

#Booksky #design #designbooks #writing #patterns

from Calls This - Abacus 1987

innocence or incoherence in the attempt,

I have a shelter.

the air too thin

to carry sound.

#poetry #naming

Two books, connected series ... with repeats

#Booksky #2books #connected #waka #tanka #Japan #nagauta

Beyond the native repertoire Design of T cell receptors by artificial intelligence is poised to accelerate cancer immunotherapy

The design of T cell receptors by #AI is poised to accelerate #cancer immunotherapy.

Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/47832vh

Lucy Abraham | IAQ Profiles | Inuit Art Foundation Inuit Art Quarterly - Artist Profile

Inuit art is more than sculpture and prints.

Lucy Abraham make delightful objects that looking at I want to pick up.

www.inuitartfoundation.org/profiles/art...

#art #objects #Inuit

The Highline garden in NYC is one of Piet Oudolf's best known designs.

oudolf.com/garden/highl...

#design #gardens #NYC

Alberta’s Perverse New Barriers to COVID Vaccines | The Tyee The virus hits the old and poor hardest. The province is erecting hurdles for granting them protection.

Alberta's Perverse New Barriers to COVID Vaccines by Andrew Nikiforuk. Alberta's UCP are a danger to the people of Alberta.

via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

#Canada #Alberta #politics #Covid #UCP

Farm milk

Summer butterfat
Some grass taste in the milk
Some clover

#poetry #haiku #summer #milk #farm

In This AI Age, How Best to Handle Patient Health Data? | The Tyee An ethical debate pits privacy against medical advances. Here are five key recommendations.

In This AI Age, How Best to Handle Patient Health Data? by Udoka Okpalauwaekwe.

Shares by principles for managing health data including treating data as a relational good.

via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

#healthcare #AI #privacy

I am trying to map out how I read, how one book follows another.

Design books

What art does - an unfinished theory by Brian Eno and Bette A

www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #art

1st lines

No need for shame, my Russian land!
Angels have always gone barefoot...
Boots are footwear for the devil.
Now who's shod is to be feared.

Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Christopher Whyte 2020

#poetry #1stlines #Moscow #Russia #translation

Two books, connected series ... with repeats

#Booksky #2books #connected #waka #tanka #Japan

Coming to a Summit Avenue near you!

Piet Oudolf has transformed garden and planting design in a way that makes it more connected, seasonal and perennial.

oudolf.com

#design #art #gardens #plants #perennials

Design books

Designing with Plants by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury

gardeninacity.com/2012/11/08/b...

#Boosky #books #design #designbooks #gardens #plants #Dutch

A Brilliant Community Farm Rises from Brambles | The Tyee Sechelt imports almost all its food. This Indigenous-led effort wants to show a better approach can take root.

We need more local food, local energy and local manufacturing. BC is too dependent on mega projects.

A Brilliant Community Farm Rises from Brambles via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/WhatWorks/20...

#Canada #BC #farming #Sechelt #food

from Calls This - Abacus 1987

and draw a thread of cotton

from your nose

down through the anus

made whole the measure

of your need

#poetry #naming

1st lines

Vagabond, with no memories of a family! -
Youth! - I remember: a blizzard of snow
in which the heart sang. From a sheltered room
I carried you outside into the storm.
...

Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Christopher Whyte March 1919

#poetry #1stlines #Moscow #Russia

Two books, connected series ... with repeats

#Booksky #2books #connected #renga

YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB) Portrait of a Genius: The Extraordinary Story of Francis Williams

@neildegrassetyson.com I hope you have already come across this amazing discovery: youtu.be/eZEAiXl6hNY?... ... would be lovely to watch a discussion by you and Dr. Dabhoiwala about it.

Neither did I, just discovered this.

blue nineteen: Library of Babel

When Shane Parish offered me the debut recordings from a new improvisational trio he had formed with cellist Emmalee Hunnicutt and double bassist Frank Meadows, though, I was blown away.

Manu Dibango Check out videos with legendary Manu Dibango. From old classics to new exclusive videos with the musical trend-setter. Soon celebrating his 80th anniversary! Listen to his latest album here - https:...

Sunday morning, doing some work before heading out to the Powell Street Festival. Listening to Manu Dibango

www.youtube.com/user/manudib...

#music #Africa

How I’m Preparing My Parents—And Myself—To Be Fluent in AI On a family trip, I got locked out of the latest technologies. Here’s what it taught me about AI literacy.

Interesting exploration of culture, cultural context and how to become AI native.

every.to/p/how-i-m-pr...

#AI #China #skills