Please see the new page (link here) for a haiku a day. Toward the end of 2020, during the Christian season of Advent, my sister Deb and I determined to write a haiku each day until Christmas. We shared those with each other along the way, in the process sharing a fragment of a moment real as real could be, a window into the world each of us had witnessed or experienced that day. It was fun. But more than that. This project takes off from there – a haiku a day through the year. Won’t you join in? Don’t worry if you’re not starting precisely on January first. For one thing, who says what’s the beginning of a year? Are there not beginnings at every moment? This one can be yours. The only “rules” for this project are those you take on for yourself. For me, they’re three: 1) The haiku conforms to the tradition of three lines, the first composed of five syllables; the second of seven; the third, five. 2) Something concrete (i.e., some thing) from the nonhuman natural world anchors the haiku. 3) No judgment. That’s it.
Now, a haiku to close out 2020:
Pebble in my shoe,
With each step you remind me
How I am alive.
