Category: Daily Haiku

I adore the simplicity, as well as the challenge of Haiku. The constraints focus my mind, seeking out the essence of the moment, feeling, notion, distilling it to brilliant singularity.

My goal: to post at least one haiku a day.

Career Meditation: Accepting what I don’t know 

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Embracing my fear
Stepping into the unknown
So much I don’t know

I realized this morning how much I’ve struggled with my new job. I’m in a new industry and doing very different work.  And i’s been a long time since I’ve stretched myself like this. It’s been fearful, but good. I need to push myself forward. It’s far too easy to settle into easy, no risk, safe work. I need to push through that fear and keep growing, stay alive and vibrant. 


Arguments On The Internet: A Haiku

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Online arguments 

Publicly correct their faults

So tempting sometimes 
Irs so easy to get caught up in how wrong some people can be that we lose sight of our deeper values. 

A Meditation On Beauty, And Our Cruel Nature

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Life’s immense beauty
Gets overshadowed sometimes
By crass destruction

It concerns me, at times, how much we prefer destructive rhetoric over the positive. There are times I wonder if we, as a group, know how. 


Time to Awaken

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Time to awaken
Put my feet upon the floor
Go forth and do things 


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