Tag: creative process

Summer Quartet IV: What Satisfies the Cat

Did anything about this summer surprise you? For this final installment of my “Summer Quartet” blog series, I’ll say that I had some insights from my summer outings. I also had some new thoughts upon coming home. Now in this haibun (prose + haiku) habit, I’ve been reflecting on the contrast … ~~~ What Satisfies... Continue Reading →

Summer Quartet III: Piney

What new thing have you found or made this summer? In this “Summer Quartet” blog series, you’ll see I’ve been pushing myself to try something new on my summer outings by bringing home haiku. Composing the haiku is a way of capturing things I encounter when I'm out and about, especially old, familiar things that... Continue Reading →

Summer Quartet II: The Drive

What kinds of things have you brought home this summer? With this “Summer Quartet” blog series, I’ve been challenging myself to bring home some haiku from my summer outings and add prose to develop them into the haibun (prose + haiku) form. Poetry amateur I may be, but I’m enjoying this summer hobby. ~~~ The... Continue Reading →

Summer Quartet I: The Pull of Needful Things

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What do you bring home from your summer outings? Postcards or mugs? Photos or sketches? Leaves to press and stories to tell?  This year I’ve been challenging myself with something unusual (for me). I’ve been bringing home haiku. Bear with me: I’m no poet. But I find those three short lines make the haiku form... Continue Reading →

On Ecclesiastes and Women

I’m trying to imagine myself among those gathered to hear Qohelet speak. (Qohelet, Koheleth, the Preacher, the Teacher – different translations of the Bible refer to the author of Ecclesiastes in different ways.) Would there be any other women there, and would we even have opportunity to experiment in the ways Qohelet says he experimented,... Continue Reading →

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