Haiku Summer

I think I will change the format for this blog for the summer. Summer Solstice is next week, and I am going to celebrate this season with Haiku. I taught a class on Garden & Nature Journaling last week. While I was doing research for the lesson, I remembered how many haiku poems I wrote while I was pregnant. I can bring up the whole memory of the instant I described in each poem so easily. Writing haiku is a good way to be present, and a great way to scrapbook your memories!

sunshine and cool breeze
blond curls with pigtail topper
giggles on the swings

Back in the Saddle

I am grateful for a kind, compassionate husband who runs to the grocery store at 5am for remedies to aid my stomach problems (stemming from drinking spoiled lemonade). I am grateful for breezy, cool, sunny days after a steamy heat wave. I am grateful for lazy, silly days with my 19 month old daughter. I am grateful that my daughter has a bit of the fae in her...she looks like a sprite or Pan, playing her recorder, dancing on tiptoe naked in her nursery! I am grateful that I have a chance to work doing something I love and am good at, bringing more financial stability into our home. I am grateful that I am supported in new endeavors by family and friends. I am grateful for Memorial Day dips in the Yellow Breeches at the boat dock. I am grateful for memories that I have of long ago friends who have suddenly been lost to us...too young to leave this world. Bright Blessings to you, Tami Lytle, as you pass from this world to the next. May the place you are going be beautiful and more peaceful than this one for you.