Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine. William Feather today's rain today's sunshine ...
Life begins as a quest of the child to become a man or woman and ends as a journey by the man or woman to rediscover the child. Laurens van der Post to...
<http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EPsPGZDHI6o/T5zhDjldobI/AAAAAAAAkFw/tNxJ_zwUWoA/s1600/yaezakura%2Btakitani.jpg> Yesterday I observed some dark pink yaezakura and...
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure. Patch Adams - the...
<http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SW2gpNOpIxI/T6JBTT-HEPI/AAAAAAAAkTY/t4ApRoDA9g0/s1600/bamboo%2Bshoot.jpg> bamboo shoots - the more I look the more I find today we...
Will any type of bamboo do for shoots to eat? I have some coming up in my yard. Elaine ... Will any type of bamboo do for shoots to eat? I have some coming up...
Hi All Two resources for bamboo shoot info: http://agsyst.wsu.edu/bambroc.pdf http://www.bamboo.org/FAQ.html#CanIEatTheShoots bamboo groves in backyards...
Oh, thanks Tom! And the info is from U of WA (I'm in Tacoma)! ... Oh, thanks Tom! And the info is from U of WA (I'm in Tacoma)! On May 3, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Tom...
Recently, the New York City Japan Society had a haiku contest, hana + haiku, as part of the April 14 j-CATION festival. I somehow wound up as one of the...
Thanks. We got two cherry blossom rice bowls with fancy chopsticks. Here is my current favorite cherry blossom haiku, because it seems to me to typify the...
By the way, Ms. Gross' haiku: Briefly uplifted, Petals swirl across the square With fast food wrappers was presented by her at the Japan Society haiku workshop...
spelled out in chalk high and wide on the sidewalk: F R U H L I N G ! (I don't have the means to put the umlaut on top of the 'u', but if I could, that would...
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frog concert in a pitch-dark night - to each his own voice . My Karl the Froggie . <http://happyhaiku.blogspot.jp/2005/07/karl-froggie.html> . voice of Buddha,...
Dear Gabi: Really? This reminds me of Stein's ever-famous line: a rose is a rose is a rose. Hemingway, playfully, provocatively..., tried to "stir" Stein's...
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