Posts tagged ‘Haiku’
Jan 28
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Jan 26
“Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.” ― Kellie Elmore
Welcome to our countdown to the day of reckoning. During this week, we’re keeping an ear to the ground, listening for leaks of a possible early end to cold affronts felt in the global village neighborhoods of Canada, Greenland, et al. Watch this space.
“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
― Kenneth Grahame
Dec 19
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” ― Herman Melville
In the twinkling of December’s Eves, happy miracles in the offing, we search our archive for answers to the question: If the laws of karma have us do it again, how would we face the morning after?
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
— Victor Hugo
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Nov 14
“All dreams spin out from the same web.” — Hopi proverb
This work beats the shamanic drum of the Great Spirit that inhabits the dreamscapes of the free and the brave. Any similarity between spirits of dreamscapes and their shadows on landscapes is auditory.
Word to the wise: It would not be wise to tune-in to shamanic drumming on YouTube before reading at least the quotes in this post, lest you get carried away.
The drumming is not “making music.” It is a means of opening a doorway through sound.
— Robert Moss, Conscious Dreaming
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Oct 26
“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.” — Edward de Bono
Images and words are processed by, respectively, the rear and right, and left and front lobes of the human CPU. Those in this series are processed by the fan. A cool processing unit reboots all the lobes and makes your brain laugh.
We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.
— William James
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Jul 20
“The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.” — Nostradamus
Will it be wine and roses, or milk and honey?
Back when TVs and phones sprouted rotary dials and hearses grew tail fins, Marshall McLuhan observed: We look at the present through a rear-view mirror, march backwards into the future.
What kind of future are we backing into at present? For answers, a great jovialist consults a prophet of doom.
“For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.”
— Nostradamus
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Jul 2
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” — Rumi
Following our previous post, “True Tile Tales,” we picked these tales up off the cutting-room floor, and the tiles came with them. A little bird told us they wouldn’t lie. So, truth be told…
Some stories are true that never happened.
— Elie Wiesel
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“There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? … To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Our myths glow, as tiles made of clay and compassion, with the fire of gods.
“The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.” —Auguste Rodin
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May 29
“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.” ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Waiting for a gift from the sea” is a metaphor of practicing patience as its own reward, as virtue must be, for goodness’ sake. If inner strength and endurance are among all good things that come to those who wait, well, a gift from the sea is worth waiting for.
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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May 12
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