icicles drip on the silla pile of bills waitingto be paid
leaning backin their chairsold friends reunited
Carolyn Hall from A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices (Red Moon Press, 2001)credits: ”icicles drip” - Acorn 3“leaning back” - Frogpond XXII:3
Snowmen always make me smile. Ever since I encountered the idea of a Snow Buddha
in the haiku of Kobayashi Issa, I have been fascinated and delighted by the concept.
Although I’m not a buddhist, I concur that there is no intermediary between the individual
and the divine, that we each need to strive to be “awakened” and enlightened, and that
impermanence (flux, change) is the state of all things. [Buddha is not God; the word means
“awakened one.”]
For me, a snow Buddha represents creativity and play, along with the cycle that returns
all things to their original state and begins anew. The end of one year and the beginning
of a new year seems like an especially good time to think about — and, if possible, make
— snow Buddhas. So let’s end 2004 and begin 2005 with thoughts, photos (click for the original,
full-sized versions), and haiku featuring snow Buddhas. May this annual cycle bring enlightenment
and joy!]
Photo-Haiku Gallery by drussell
In two verses of his Remembrance of Buddha, Rev. Tasogare Shinju tells us:
The snow Buddha knows something
Water and air.
I need to breathe and drink,
so hurry up and melt.
Impermanence,
Who can say it.
Already gone.
Great compost heap.
original photo by Alison Shumway, via Chad W. Shumway
Naturally, Kobayashi Issa has some interesting perspectives to add:
first snow–
even a lump of it
is Buddhafirst snow
making a Buddha of you
is hard tooa sparrow chirping
in his lap…
snow Buddhanaughty child–
instead of his chores
a snow Buddhahe’s holding one
snowball…
the Buddhaguard the haiku
I beseech you!
snow Buddha
Kobayashi Issa - translated by David G. Lanoue
- click here for two dozen snow/buddha haiku
just enough snow
for a Buddha –
too much snow
wintry mix
the kids make a snow buddha
and a mud buddha
unseasonably warm
a puppy laps up
our snow buddha
snow turns to rain -
our Buddha’s visit
cut short
………………….. by dagosan / David Giacalone
first snow…
the children’s hangers
clatter in the closet- click for orig. photo-haiku by Michael Dylan Welch
after snowfall
a Buddha on the lawn
with coal eyes
……………………. from Presents of Mind, by Jim Kacian
watercolors
strung across the art room–
winter rain
driving from the beach
in winter twilight
…the sky today
wind chimes
sharper, clearer
after snow
credits: “watercolors” & “driving” - simply haiku (Oct. 2003)
“wind chimes” — the heron’s nest VI: 6 (June 2002)
I don’t understand why Prof. Bainbridge advocates using the phrase “the dead constitution”
to describe his approach to constitutional interpretation. Do he and Justice Scalia really think
the Founders wanted a “dead” document? Does the phrase sound especially catchy? Give me
a living constitution any day — with the original DNA, it will still live and grow.
conjures up deposed monarchists hoping to return someday in glory.
(by definition) not condoning the actions of the subject institition or people. It’s kind of scary that
young lawyers and law students seem to need emoticons to get an author’s gist.
update [7 PM]: Special (Legal) Ed? In addition to emoticons, Energy Spatula seems
to need captions explaining the topic being covered. Apparently, I should have said
(slowly, with tiny words): “I am not talking about whether AL is funny or likeable
or good at what he’s doing. The topic of this blurb is whether a satirist agrees with
the conduct described.” [Midnight]: E. Spats is learning!
With all due respect to Eugene Volokh and Mark Twain, Twain’s quip “History doesn’t repeat itself,
but it rhymes,” does not mean the same thing as Volokh’s observation “Tomorrow’s problems
won’t be identical to yesterday’s; but they may be similar enough.” Rhyming has no necessary connection
at all to the meaning of “rhymed” lines or events. History may not repeat itself, but it does get paraphrased.
There’s lots of historic homonyms, too.
very first question was whether the students are at HBS for reasons other than wanting to become
rich. Sahlman’s answer began, “I have never known a student who came to HBS to become rich per
se” — they come because they want to do something that interests them. Consider your Editor’s
eyebrow raised. I wonder if Sahlman ever gets over to the Law School
watercolors
strung across the art room–
winter rain
driving from the beach
in winter twilight
…the sky today
wind chimes
sharper, clearer
after snow
credits: “watercolors” & “driving” - simply haiku (Oct. 2003)
“wind chimes” — the heron’s nest VI: 6 (June 2002)
to describe his approach to constitutional interpretation. Do he and Justice Scalia really think
the Founders wanted a “dead” document? Does the phrase sound especially catchy? Give me
a living constitution any day — with the original DNA, it will still live and grow.
conjures up deposed monarchists hoping to return someday in glory.
(by definition) not condoning the actions of the subject institition or people. It’s kind of scary that
young lawyers and law students seem to need emoticons to get an author’s gist.
update [7 PM]: Special (Legal) Ed? In addition to emoticons, Energy Spatula seems
to need captions explaining the topic being covered. Apparently, I should have said
(slowly, with tiny words): “I am not talking about whether AL is funny or likeable
or good at what he’s doing. The topic of this blurb is whether a satirist agrees with
the conduct described.” [Midnight]: E. Spats is learning!
but it rhymes,” does not mean the same thing as Volokh’s observation “Tomorrow’s problems
won’t be identical to yesterday’s; but they may be similar enough.” Rhyming has no necessary connection
at all to the meaning of “rhymed” lines or events. History may not repeat itself, but it does get paraphrased.
There’s lots of historic homonyms, too.
very first question was whether the students are at HBS for reasons other than wanting to become
rich. Sahlman’s answer began, “I have never known a student who came to HBS to become rich per
se” — they come because they want to do something that interests them. Consider your Editor’s
eyebrow raised. I wonder if Sahlman ever gets over to the Law School
only crumbs
on the Christmas platter –
in bed, alone
dagosan [dec. 30, 2004]
Got the mid-holiday doldrums? If you believe that misery loves company,
you’ll love the company of America’s favorite ex-country-rocker, mystery-writer
raconteur Kinky Friedman:
“The period between Christmas and New Year’s can be a rather lonely
time for those of us married to the wind. Old people living alone tend
to leap from their top-floor balconies in greatly incresed numbers,
sometimes taking until Purim to hit the pavement. Young people who
feel alone see the holiday season as a pretty good time to end it all before
it begins. They hang themselves while listening to albums by Whitesnake,
overdose on St. Joseph’s baby aspirin, or just wander away, having always
dreamed of someday seeing themselves on milk cartons.”
Kinky Friedman, from Musical Chairs, as excerpted in the unique
by Mike McGovern (1999).
New Year’s kite–
out of green leaves
then back in
New Year’s pine decoration–
alone, listening
to the night rain
no one to give
New Year’s presents to…
little hut
Kobayashi Issa translated by David G. Lanoue
only crumbs
on the Christmas platter –
in bed, alone
dagosan [dec. 30, 2004]
Got the mid-holiday doldrums? If you believe that misery loves company,
you’ll love the company of America’s favorite ex-country-rocker, mystery-writer
raconteur Kinky Friedman:
“The period between Christmas and New Year’s can be a rather lonely
time for those of us married to the wind. Old people living alone tend
to leap from their top-floor balconies in greatly incresed numbers,
sometimes taking until Purim to hit the pavement. Young people who
feel alone see the holiday season as a pretty good time to end it all before
it begins. They hang themselves while listening to albums by Whitesnake,
overdose on St. Joseph’s baby aspirin, or just wander away, having always
dreamed of someday seeing themselves on milk cartons.”
Kinky Friedman, from Musical Chairs, as excerpted in the unique
by Mike McGovern (1999).
New Year’s kite–
out of green leaves
then back in
New Year’s pine decoration–
alone, listening
to the night rain
no one to give
New Year’s presents to…
little hut
Kobayashi Issa translated by David G. Lanoue
. . . a resolution I plan to keep.
first light
a grouse stepping
around snow
first blossoms
my cell phone
set to vibrate
credits: “first light” - from A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices; Snapshots 6
“first blossoms” from Walking the Same Path; Heron’s Nest VI:4
. . . a resolution I plan to keep.
first light
a grouse stepping
around snow
first blossoms
my cell phone
set to vibrate
credits: “first light” - from A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices; Snapshots 6
“first blossoms” from Walking the Same Path; Heron’s Nest VI:4
Let’s spend part of our winter holiday in Wales with
winter light
smoke shadows drift
over the water tower
New Year’s Day–
bleaching work shirts
back to white
steeltown Christmas
drizzle blurs
the neon welcome
by Matt Morden
credits: “winter light” - The Heron’s Nest (Dec. 2001)
“New Year’s Day” - The Heron’s Nest (March 2003)
“steeltown Christmas” - The Heron’s Nest, Valentine Award (March 2002)
by dagosan:
children awash
in christmas gifts –
tsunami on tv
[Dec. 28, 2004]
I don’t believe that there are any particular deception problems posed by anonymous
authorship of a weblog — once you know the writer is anonymous, you are (or certainly
should be) duly warned about the potential for fictionalization.
A lot of the worries about whether a weblog is “true” or “fictitious” could
be solved if weblog editors made it clear — as is done with all books — whether
the content is “fiction” or “non-fiction“. Some weblog writers might need
to make this disclaimer one post at a time. We all know that there is often
much “truth” in fiction. However, if a writer is making up facts, he or she
should not be implying or declaring that the work is non-fiction.
Rights report, co-drafted by then-Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that seems to propose
that the age of sexual consent be lowered to 12 in a statute covering federal territorial and
maritime jurisdiction. In my experience, there did exist an overlapping group of feminist
and children’s rights lawyers in the 70s and 80s who insisted that the age of consent for
females should be lowered from 16, because adolescents were “women” who should be
allowed to have control of their own bodies. Another reason may have been helping to
assure “reproductive rights” to females at the earliest possible time. However, many would
have balked at twelve I bet — at least, as soon as they became mothers.
Reynolds’ point that Hewitt gets it: ”the vast hordes of small blogs with a few dozen readers
are more important than the small number of big blogs with hundreds of thousands of readers.”
I also think it’s ironic that Hewitt’s book does not permit Amazon.com’s Look Inside feature.
checking out this topic, I learned the new word portmanteau, and I ain’t ashamed to show my
ignorance. (some would say I do so daily) Good word.
who are not appropriate recipients on drugs, for far longer than would ever be appropriate.
The fact that the drugs are often 10+ times more expensive than less risky and more appropriate
drugs, which are as effective, makes this problem even worse. That the patient asks for the
televised drug and can get it elsewhere is no excuse for the individual physician making an
inappropriate prescription.
This is a good place to remind you to check out Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs website:
Here are links to some of its first Press Releases.
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Consumers could save as much as $1,300 a year by switching to a less expensive cholesterol-reducing medicine.
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An over-the-counter medication to treat heartburn and acid-reflux is available for under a dollar a day.
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Relatively inexpensive, safe and effective drugs to replace highly-advertised drugs to treat arthritis and pain.
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Let’s spend part of our winter holiday in Wales with
winter light
smoke shadows drift
over the water tower
New Year’s Day–
bleaching work shirts
back to white
steeltown Christmas
drizzle blurs
the neon welcome
Yesterday, 