Laine's Blog, Thinking Out Loud

Earth Day and Poetry

 

 

A fallen blossom

Is coming back to the branch.

Look, a butterfly!

 

                                                                                by Moritake (1473-1549)

 

Happy Earth Day!!!

Of course, everyday is Earth Day!

And since April is National Poetry Month,

here is a Haiku from a book I have had with me all of my adult life,

One Hundred Famous Haiku

Selected and translated into English by

Daniel C. Buchanan

It is divided by season.

This is one for Spring.

 

 

 

Butterfly shot at the Key West Butterfly And Nature Conservancy, © Laine Quinn 2008.

A Life...

 

 

Have you ever listened to someone's life story and thought,

this can't be true?

How could she have done all of those things in 55 years?

 

Well, wait until you are 60,

you realize that - yes -

it was all possible and true!

 

The butterfly lives for a very short time,

but we get to do a lot of lot of things

in our relatively short lives.

 

Pretty cool!

 

 

 

 

Butterfly shot at the Butterfly Exhibit in Key West by Paula Post and used without her permission!

(And my knee is much better today, thank you!)

 

Losing Streak Ended!

 

 

Poker with the girls last night (not pictured here!),

and you know you're in good company when you offer to lose

just to balance things out and the dealer says,

"Oh, no, we'll pick your pockets clean next time, don't worry!"

 

The yin and yang of life.

Sometimes you win

and it feels really good!

 

 

Sculpture of card players found in apparent scrap yard in Key West, Florida

 

 

Reprinted from LainesBlog, May 2012, with different title! May is a good month for winning!

How We Learn

 

"Mom, that is so cool!

How do you do that?"

 

 

 

Free range chicks in Key West.

Drink It Up!

 

 

If the energy that propelled the universe into existence

is love,

and there is a unique alignment of energies

on a day such as 12/12/12,

then love is in the air

in a profound sense

and we might as well drink it up in big gulps!

 

Here's to love,

to life!

 

 

Thanks to Paula for the beautiful photograph, " Sunrise at the Sculpture Garden," Anastasia Island, St. Augustine Beach.

Winning Streak

 

 

Poker with the girls last night (not pictured here!),

and you know you're in good company when you offer to lose

just to balance things out and the dealer says,

"Oh, no, we'll pick your pockets clean next time, don't worry!"

 

The yin and yang of life.

Sometimes you win

and it feels really good!

 

 

Sculpture of card players found in apparent scrap yard in Key West, Florida