{"id":7332,"date":"2007-01-31T21:12:11","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T02:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/01\/31\/gray-is-okay\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:52","slug":"gray-is-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/01\/31\/gray-is-okay\/","title":{"rendered":"gray is okay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\"snowflake\"\u00a0 It’s the season when we hear lots of complaints about excessive grayness here in Upstate New York — gray skies, snowbanks, slush, and moods.\u00a0\u00a0 At times, the cloud ceiling is so low, it feels like we’re stuck inside a shallow, covered saucepan.\u00a0 I’ve always insisted that I don’t need blue skies to feel sunny (well, at my sunniest), and that gray\u00a0clouds don’t make me blue.\u00a0 I’m sticking to that story again this year.\u00a0 Soon, I plan to write about another kind of graying<\/a> (of the legal profession), but first, here are a few haiku to help prove that gray is okay:<\/p>\n

\"WelchGreySky\"\u00a0\u00a0 orig. photo & poem<\/a>, in Open Window<\/em>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

grey sky \u2014
\nthe dog\u2019s water dish
\niced over<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

visiting mother\u2014
\nagain she finds
\nmy first grey hair<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

. . . . by Michael Dylan Welch<\/a>\u00a0– “visiting mother” – TAO<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

dawn\u2013
\nshades of grey break
\ninto birdsong<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

. . . . . by Pamela Miller Ness<\/a>\u00a0– The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/a><\/em> (Dec. 2000)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

A gray dawn —
\nlast night’s poker cards
\nfacedown on the table<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

. . . .\u00a0 by Rebecca Lilly<\/a>, from A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices<\/em><\/p>\n

low gray sky —
\nan afghan warming
\non the radiator<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

three-quarter moon
\nblack and gray shadows
\ncross the snow-covered lawn<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

picnickers fleeing
\na slate-gray sky —
\nlilacs aglow<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

. . . . by dagosan<\/a> – “low gray sky” – The Heron’s Nest<\/a><\/em> (June 2006)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

pink begonias
\ndeepening
\nthe grey fall<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

. . . . . by Barry George<\/a> at simply haiku<\/a>\u00a0 \"FireworksWelch\"<\/em><\/p>\n

february grey
\ni remember chillies
\nin a sieve<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

barber’s sweepings
\na touch of grey splits
\nman and boy\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0. . . . by matt morden<\/a> at Morden Haiku<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

gray morning
\nthe weight of mist
\nin Spanish moss<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

. . . . by peggy lyles<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

storm warning
\nthe watercolorist works
\nin shades of grey<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

. . . . by Tom Painting<\/a> from The Heron\u2019s Nest\u00a0\u00a0<\/em> \"rainbowG\"<\/em><\/p>\n

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