Come, January / Begin with new beginnings / And a calendar!
Note on picture above: Calendar from Australia that hangs in my kitchen, and comes to me every January from my sweet mother-in-law who lives there.
Marking Time
Category: Haiku Love
My thoughts in haiku. And my thoughts ON the haiku: The integrity of the haiku lies not so much in the three-line 5-7-5 syllable scheme as much as in the meaning it conveys and implies.
Ooty's Booty
Two summers ago / Beautiful Ootacamud / Thanks for the good times!
Note on picture: This collage was created today by a very creative person who shares a roof with me! These are postcards of the lovely hillstation, Ootacamund, aka, Ooty in the state of Tamilnadu, India that we visited two summers ago. The botancial gardens were especially beautiful as were several other sights in town.
Beatitude: Take That To The Bank!
Turn’d the other cheek / Consider us now even / Balance is restored!
First posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 9:39am
Et tu?!
Do not suffer fools / Unless you count yourself one / Or wish to be one!
First posted by Smriti ‘Simmi’ D. Isaac on Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 11:50 am.
Death, Where Is Thy Sting?
Karma, take a seat / Forgiveness and redemption / Are my cup of tea!
Note on picture: This picture was taken by my friend C. Desmond on his travels to Mexico. This haiku was originally published in the Fall of 2009 in my private blog.
Partial Or Not!
Contradictions have / No positive solutions / Basic math concept!
The "Gerig Way"
Sometimes it is best / To deal with a tough problem / With benign neglect
Note on picture: This is a tribute to Dr. Donald Gerig, pastor of Huron Hills Church for many years, and one of the first to welcome me into the church when I first stepped foot inside the building in early January 1999. Over the years, Pastor Gerig and his wife Carolyn were important influences in the life of my family and myself as they served to minister to us each Sunday. Even after Pastor Gerig’s retirement and their moving away to Indiana, we kept in touch, and it was a sad day when I learnt of his passing away.
During a memorial service held in Huron Hills some weeks later, our current Pastor, Ken White mentioned that Pastor Gerig had a very wise way of dealing with problems that sometimes didn’t seem to have any clear or easy solutions. In his unassuming way, it seems that he would often say that “benign neglect” is sometimes the best way! And how true that is! What we often rush to address with words and actions sometimes just need “letting be”.
Donald D. Gerig, 08.07.1939 – 02.23.2010
