A friend’s illness got me thinking, one, what could I do to brighten their day and two, how could I notice the little miracles that I simply don’t pay attention to in my own daily life. So, I am putting myself to the test. Can I create a haiku each day that interrupts my self-created busyness? While I don’t have something to say everyday in a blog, I thought a haiku would be perfect.
Haiku comes from a long tradition in Japanese culture that uses kanji characters to capture a felt-sense moment in time. Technically, a haiku is defined as a 3 line poem that uses 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second and 5 for the third. Some haiku books say this captured feeling one expresses is more important than the correct syllable arrangement. I think, for this project, the important thing is to stop and notice something in my day that perhaps reveals beauty, makes me laugh or reflects on how amazing things are always surrounding me, if I just am present enough in my life to notice them.
