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Johnny Bunko - Dan Pink

It's Johnny Bunko
teaching us about careers,
and all in Manga.

Posted by patti digh on June 14, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

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Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee

Aging professor
disgraced by desire, longing
after meaning, none?

Posted by patti digh on January 29, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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The Time of Our Singing - Richard Powers

Novel as rondo
race, time, and music repeat
again and again.

Posted by patti digh on January 15, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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The Child in Time - Ian McEwan

A baby taken,
a father's slow-motion trek
to live without her.

Posted by patti digh on January 15, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Art & Fear - David Bayles and Ted Orland

What stops an artist?
Is it fears about others
or about ourselves?

Posted by patti digh on July 06, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

Are you boy or girl?
We perform gender daily,
each gesture, each look.

Posted by patti digh on February 26, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

The Courage to Teach - Parker Palmer

To teach, we must first
connect head, heart and spirit
inside our own Self.

Posted by patti digh on May 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Impro - Keith Johnstone

Put down your clever
Let your partner affect you
Tenets of improv

Posted by patti digh on May 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Teaching with Your Mouth Shut - Donald L. Finkel

Teaching or learning?
Don't just Tell your students things,
help them discover.

Posted by patti digh on May 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Repacking Your Bags - Richard Leider

A bag full of stuff,
does all this make you happy?
repack and be light.

Posted by patti digh on May 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Recognitions - William Gaddis

Artist or forger?
Recognizing what is real
is never easy.

Posted by patti digh on May 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott

Write shitty first drafts,
take it one bird at a time,
this is how to write.

Posted by patti digh on May 06, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)

A Whole New Mind - Daniel Pink

Left brain and right brain
which side is most important?
the artsy side wins.

Posted by patti digh on May 05, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lundgren

Red hair in pigtails
her horse living in the house
she, the strongest girl

Posted by patti digh on May 05, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)

The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

When does change happen?

At what point do all things tip

Never to return?

Posted by patti digh on May 01, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Geography of Thought - Richard Nisbett

How do we think here?

And halfway around the globe,

are they different?

Posted by patti digh on May 01, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

Fast as a bunny

we make weighty decisions

but how do we know?

Posted by patti digh on May 01, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)

To entertain myself, I've decided to write book summaries in Haiku of every book that I read, a succinct 17 syllables to capture the sense of the book, relentless in its sparseness. Let's see what holds up under the pressure of Haiku...and what doesn't.