Frank is now an Eagle Scout!Mira and I are so happy for him, and proud of him! He earned Scouting’s highest award in three years of advancement! His service project was a restoration of a memorial to Suffern resident and BSA co-founder Daniel Carter Beard. Troop 21, Frank’s […]
Delighted to premier on the website Where Peter Is with this haibun-reflection! Thank you Mike Lewis and all of the wonderful editors and staff there! The later-afternoon sky fills with cirrus clouds again. The expected snow has not yet arrived, but my rheumatic joints inform me that it’s […]
“The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert…” MK 1:12 “Go!” This joyous fullness drives me on. Abba’s luminocity, the descended Ruach-as-dove: now, they’re a driving whirlwind, an inferno. “Go!” I stagger. Stumble. Drop to one knee. Rise up. Continue. To the desert. Where my forty-day fast awaits. […]
I embody it. Yes, ever-yielding, always giving way: Nonetheless, I conquer. Ask the Appalachia. They towered over Everest once. Until I fell, storm after storm, for aeons. Now, their rounded peaks, bent like geriatric backs, no longer stab the blue above. Ever the softest, yet even the diamond-hard […]
Hope you enjoyed your moon gazing / hawk-sighting, haijin! Congratulations to last challenges’ contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Tessa Dean2. s.s.3. Jules4. Eugenia 5. Jane Dougherty6. Sue Vincent7. anotherKate8. Petru 9. Goutam Dutta10. Li/Lisa Fox of W MI, USA Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead: (Author’s […]
Husband, Father, Writer, Teacher. American Haijin. Because Haikai matters!
