Journal

             "Every season has a reason

             — even a blanket of snow

             keeps plants and trees warm."

                   —Robert M. Hopkins

"Your daily life 

is your temple and your religion. 

When you enter into it 

take with you 

your all."

—Khalil Gibran

 "Don't let the noise 

of others' opinions drown out 

your own inner voice."

—Steve Jobs

Haibun Poetry

                        Autumn Sky

Stepping outside into our roof-top garden, turning browner and sparser by the day, I look up into the glorious autumn sky — so clear and blue, and eye-squinting bright from the morning sun, I almost gasp at the sight of a new tenant, already making itself at home: a big garden spider, suspended high over my head in the center of an audacious web that spanned, not alongside the periphery of our patio, but right across the center of it — from an overhanging eave of our apartment to a small tree alongside the north-view railing. After a cursory glance of it's monumental scale, and before I could even take another breath, an unsuspecting guest arrived, proving only too well, the terrible efficiency of its design.

                        unbroken web —

                        a stinkbug freezes 

                        in mid-flight

                                 —Robert M. Hopkins