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Haiku # 145
Another birthday and a world without you in it is still a hard world to navigate at times. Not a day goes by…
Haiku #144
New Plumeria and learning inspired haiku!
Haiku #143 (For Mom)
The picture says it all and is worth far more than a thousand words.
Haiku #142
I miss my little friend. My daily tern greeting will be missed for quite some time and never forgotten.
Empty Branch
Part of my daily commute to the school where I teach consisted of being greeted by a family of terns over the past couple of months. Particularly a new baby that I observed from egg to chick. One day before wing feathers, the baby disappeared. My days do not start as happy as they once did.
Haiku #141
Paris. 2004. Original photo is a Polaroid picture taken by a man near a crepe truck in front of the Eiffel Tower. This spontaneous photo became one of of our favorite photos from that trip!
Under the Southern Cross
One of the things I like the most about living so close to the equator is that, even though I am on the very edge of the Northern Hemisphere, I can often view the Southern Cross in the early morning sky. See this gem of the Southern Hemisphere always gives me great comfort.
Haiku #140
The rain has been falling here in the Pacific. And April is Poetry Month!
Tethered Forever
I captured this beautiful moment between mother and daughter for my friends the Gerber family. And they kindly gave me permission to use this photo for the poem that they inspired.
A Thousand Miles from Kansas 