It was just a normal day until I found this sweet, little book hiding on the back wall at Barns and Noble. I squealed with excitement and hugged it all the way to a little corner to do a quick "should I really buy this" reading... followed by "a-yea, you should really buy this" thought and now it's mine, all mine! There's something about a haiku that makes you stop, think and refocus on the essentials. Three magical, tiny lines that turn the ordinary into extraordinary. Patricia Donegan refers to them as "naked moments" and suggest that we could all do well if we lived with the "haiku mind," the ability to see the world and be awake to its simple, pure truth. I thought it would be fun to share of few of my haiku with you, so every once in a while (if I'm brave enough) I think I just may...
Here's one to get my courage flowing--in fact, it's my very first haiku, one I wrote years ago:
Tender branches bend and sway
stirring azure sky;
The roots are longing.
~Heather Westover
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