Keeping Calm

#Haiku Happenings #7: Toni Spencer’s latest #haibun for Real Toads’ Keep Calm prompt. (I’m so sorry for your loss, Toni.)

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For Sherry’s Prompt at Real Toads, keeping calm during the crisis of climate change.

Haibun: Keeping Calm
“The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you left behind want to stop living.” ― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry

Uh oh. Another one of Toni’s let’s get real and honest posts. With topics such as Trump, BREXIT, climate change – I find it hard to take any of it seriously. My husband died Sunday, suddenly, after a brief illness. I find it hard to keep calm in the face of a personal crisis. I don’t really care about a global crisis at this point. The love of my life died Sunday – a tall tree in a forest of fakes cut down in his prime. During his brief illness, I discovered again that…

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  1. kanzensakura Avatar

    Thank you for the reblog and for your kind words.

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    1. Frank J. Tassone Avatar

      You’re most welcome, Toni.

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