Lunch Haiku
I’m taking my lunch
(no fun group restaurant time) –
Covid precautions
A Lunch Haiku
A Boo Haiku
A Boo Haiku
Boo won’t let me write.
He’s curled up on my paper.
Boo Radley said, “No!”
2021 New Year Haikus
2021 New Year Haikus
Dames Ferry State Park
camping Lake Juliette’s shores
new year welcomed here
camper fully stocked
sausage breakfast casserole
black-eyed peas and ham
Jacksonville beef brats
Taster’s Choice flavor crystals
Great Grains cereal
Duraflame gold bricks
here on campsite 23
host-delivered wood
full window lake view
dogs in our laps, watching ducks
locked and loaded growls
lunch at Whistle Stop
Bennett’s barbecue the choice
Fried Green Tomatoes
where’s our DVD?
watching the movie (again)
raindrops on the roof
Jensen tuned just right
we love the country legends
can’t beat classic rock!
reading, tinkering
relishing the disconnect
unplugged, loving life!
first day of the year
doing what we hope to do
more of through the year
there’s no substitute
for together time, camping
hitch up and let’s go!
Time
For Christmas, I received a pair of rugs my husband custom-designed for our camper entryways. In creating them, he put careful thought into how we enjoy spending our time together. On this first day of 2021, we sit here on the shore of Lake Juliette, listening to the raindrops on the roof, sipping coffee and admiring the beauty of the water, taking life lessons from the ducks who joyfully swim the lake in the rain. The rugs aren’t meant to last forever, but the memories will. Here’s hoping that 2021 is filled with more time spent being fully present in each moment.
“Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn’t to save it, but to savour it.” – Ellen Goodman, 1986
TIME
making memories:
us, one campsite at a time
a gift we cherish
Goodbye 2020
Goodbye 2020
seventeen hours: goodbye 2020!
not hello 2021. goodbye 2020.
goodbye covid
goodbye strange phenomena
no 2021 red carpet – just a 2020 eviction notice
pack all your crap and leave!
goodbye 2020 and all your baggage
leave nothing on the curbside
take everything – we’re moving on
you were a dumpster fire
leave nothing of your monstrous DNA
baby new year isn’t yours
and don’t play phoenix, either
pack covid and go!
2021 bears no relation to you
goodbye forever 2020!
1838: Lingering
1838: Lingering
MDCCCXXXVIII
Pictures tell the stories
Paris: earliest known photograph of a recognizable human form taken by Louis Daguerre
Appearance is important
The fellow was having his boots shined
Exercise
London in February: pedestrian walks backward 20 miles, then forward, in 8 hours
Save a penny for a rainy day
New Orleans: mint opens, making dimes
Notice the beauty in the everyday world
London: National Gallery opens
Appreciate freedom
Frederick Douglass, disguised as sailor, escapes slavery
Think things through
England: Silkstone Mining Disaster – floods drown 26 children
Pray for others
1838 / Follow the Star
1838
MDCCCXXXVIII
London: fire sweeps Lloyds Coffee House and Royal Exchange
medium roast coffee
Samuel Morse invents telegraph
thoughtfully brewed for me
First recorded lowest temperature: -60° in Yakutsk
warms my heart
South Africa: Weenen massacre
and revives my spirit
Maryland: Kentucky and Maine US Representatives have rifle duel (lobster loses)
in a world gone crazy mad
Trail of Tears: forcible relocation of the Cherokee Nation
in a cruel, unjust world
London: Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey
where I’m treated like royalty:
Frederick vessel first to accurately measure star distances
Chick Fil A nuggets in the cab of a
pickup truck, watching the
Christmas Star – the Star of a King
1841 El Camino?
1841 El Camino?
MDCCCXLI
James Morris’ diary: Groundhog Day
Fog City Golden Glue?
U.S. vs. The Amistad: Illegal slavery
The Farmer and the Felon?
Tower of London: fire destroys Grand Armoury
King’s Garden?
James Braid sees animal magnetism~hypnotism
Tangerine Turtle and White Rabbit?
London: Punch! first published
Tropical Haze?
President first dies in Office: Harrison (pneumonia)
Emerald Sky Drops?
James Clark Ross finds Ross Ice Shelf
Pacific Stone Blue Dream?
1845, Humming Tunes
1845, Humming Tunes
MDCCCXLV
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (The Four Aces)
Barrett sends Browning the first love letter
Come Together (The Beatles)
Uniform federal election day established
Freebird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
“The Raven” published in New York Evening
Mirror
Rubber Band Man (The Spinners)
UK: rubber band patented by Stephen Perry
Because He Lives (The Gaithers)
Finland: only country to have Easter Sunday
Fire (The Pointer Sisters)
Fire destroys Pittsburgh
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Wallace Willis)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
American Slave published
Mashed Potato Time (Dee Dee Sharp)
Potato blight begins famine in Ireland
America the Beautiful (Katherine Bates and Samuel Ward)
Concept of Manifest Destiny coined by John
O’Sullivan
1851 – Whale Tragedy
1851: Whale Tragedy
MDCCCLI
Portland Penny coin flip: Boston loses Oregon
Losers can be winners
Australia: Black Thursday brushfires
Temptations smolder and smoke
Western Union founded
Lifelines are essential
Charles Darwin’s daughter dies: depression
Even the fittest fall
Adolf and Lionel play Immortal Game of chess
Practice strategic forethought
America wins first ever America’s Cup
A victory lane awaits
New York Times founded
Progress is newsworthy
Moby Dick published
Don’t mess with whales
Boston: First US YMCA opens
Support others
Christmas Eve, Washington DC: Library of Congress burns
Resist the eggnog
Common Threads 