Striving to write haiku, within the traditional guidelines, has given me a great deal of pleasure and repays the effort, even though most of my poems rarely make it into the realms of ‘proper’ haiku. I’d like you to discover that joy, too, if you haven’t already. So this post adds a few How to guidelines to the Why’s and What’s of my previous haiku posts.
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Does anxiety ever hold you back? Is your life affected by someone who’s crippled by it?
My daughter and I both suffer from anxiety and I’ve coached lots of folk whose lives are coloured by it. Many anxious people talk a lot, often too much. We try to make sure folk ‘get us’, we have an [...]
I admire…
Folk who can take stunning photos
Folk who can frame and enhance them beautifully with Photoshop
Folk who can find other people’s stunning photos online
Folk who can resize and upload them without taking five hours to do it
Some day I’ll practise enough to learn and get better, but until then, I am so thrilled [...]
My inboxes are all at zero. The kids are at out with friends. The house is empty, and it’s fresh, cool and drizzling outside. Pizza soon and a family DVD with wine. I’m surprised you can’t hear my contented sigh all the way over there…
I had fun talking about my garden yesterday and got inspired. We ate outside after [...]
I haven’t posted for a few days because of a nasty bout of flu. Being forced to stay in bed has taught me a lot.
It was a relief to be told to log off and get to bed, to read books and not blogposts; to silently rest and heal and know that the world would [...]
It takes courage to speak out, to challenge conformity and tradition; to go first and weather the attacks, ridicule and criticisms of others; to be different. It takes courage to be free, to claim our voice, to own our power, to let the world hear the music inside us. ~ Lance Secretan
I’ve had a great [...]
I take thirty words to say what genius poets and great thinkers can say in a heartbeat! I think that’s why I’m so drawn to quotes. Some have a kind of distilled essence that comes from having been lovingly shared and passed around for years, like a worn wedding ring or a sea tossed pebble. [...]
Desiderata is Latin for ’desired things’. I first heard this famous piece on the radio in the early seventies, read aloud as a spoken song. Back then, we all thought it had been found in Old St Paul’s Church, Baltimore, but we now know it was written by Max Ehrman. I bought the poster, framed it and hung it [...]
I was meme-tagged by Marc over at Welshscribe. He’d been tagged by Sean at Blogopolis Blueprint. These are two good guys, freelance ghostwriters I respect and trust. If you click those links, you’ll find out much more about the whole concept. I was a bit hesitant to begin with, but then I read other folks’ meme posts [...]
