Dec

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make darkness your friend

the owl seems to hoot—

old Xmas lights

darkness friend rap

NOTE: Drying a tea towel - new method using tree branch and butterfly clip attached to halogen lamp This radical new setup catches the wind from the fan and the heat from the lamp more effectively than simply draping without wings. Greatly reduced drying time. Patent pending.

MEMO: Christmas celebrates the light of the world returning, once again, out of the bleak dark of wintertime and with the seeds of spring stirring in response, in the black. With the promise of eternal life, the cold solstice marks the turn into the year's 'light half'. Both religiously and in terms of nature's rotation of duty, the people celebrate into harmony and alignment.

XMAS LIGHTS: Often the lights we string over the tree, or the walls, or the roof... go on the blink, especially the ones from a few decades ago when we bought them for nothing. Usually a faulty bulb needs replaced to complete the electrical cirsuit. We set up our Xmas lights (old or brand new) to simulate the return of the sun god and also, at a deeper level, to challenge and defend against the enveloping darkness of mystery all around our existential log fire.

However, the (pagan: 'country dweller') owl seems to have a better idea - a more mature alignment with the yin and with the yang, perchance. . . .

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"We balance the living moment with the living past and with the unborn

to come, and with God's heights and God's depths, in this dreaming we

call life, and in this dreaming we call haiku." - The Unknown Haijin

/

an octopus pot ---

inside, a short-lived dream

under the summer moon

— Basho

http://bit.ly/TirNaNog 8

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Mad Magazine, 1973 (good ol' daze of sectarian consumerism 17

drunk Santa,

speaking fluent Klingon/Dalek —

bums for coin

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I was sent an animated Xmas card and this image suggested a haiku. Here's a plug

for the image's supplier.

NOTE

The MA in the image. Plato. Also, check Basho travels essays over at that site with

that spurious review : 1 2 3 (It is an ongoing series, so check their index.)

I N N E R L U D E

more 20

THE UNKNOWN HAIJIN

3-part series of interviews with

an adept of classical haiku. . .

1 2 3

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HANDY READ

English Punctuation: Italics, Capitalization, and Other Odds and Ends

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"At issue, then, is not nature or nurture but how

nurture becomes nature: the environment in which

children play and grow can encourage a range of

aptitudes or foreclose them." - NYT

gender apartheid

at the New Year party?

not really—

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