{"id":4063,"date":"2005-09-07T19:34:29","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T23:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/09\/07\/holding-on-to-summer\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:26","slug":"holding-on-to-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/09\/07\/holding-on-to-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"holding on to summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have had the best weather of the summer over the past week <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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here in Schenectady (blue skies, not too hot, not too humid).  I’m <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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very reluctant to think about the all-too-imminent arrival of cold <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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weather here in Upstate New York.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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So, let’s find a piece of nature and take a stroll with our Honored Guest <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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paul m<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>, using his <\/FONT><\/FONT>award-winning book finding the way<\/EM>.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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summer’s end—<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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riding a borrowed bicycle<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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past the graveyard<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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noisy jays<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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blueberries twist easily<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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from their stems<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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no moon as yet<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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mosquitoes rising<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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over a field<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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last picnic<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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stones along the riverbed<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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give way to sand<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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paul m<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> from finding the way: haiku and field notes <\/EM>(Press Here, 2002)  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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I’m sorry to say that this wonderful little book, which won the  \"coyote<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P>
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Haiku Society of America’s <\/FONT>2003 Merit Award<\/FONT><\/A> for the Best Book of<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P>
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Haiku published in 2002, is currently out of print.  I shall be sharing<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P>
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many of its 55 haiku here at f\/k\/a, and will let you know when the 2nd <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P>
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printing is available.  The book  is reviewed<\/FONT><\/A> by Tom Clausen in Modern <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
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Haiku<\/EM>.<\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P>
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We have had the best weather of the summer over the past week here in Schenectady (blue skies, not too hot, not too humid).  I’m very reluctant to think about the all-too-imminent arrival of cold weather here in Upstate New York.   So, let’s find a piece of nature and take a stroll with our Honored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-13x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13047,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions\/13047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}