{"id":8588,"date":"2007-12-02T10:28:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T15:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/12\/02\/a-little-tranquility-before-facing"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:36","slug":"a-little-tranquility-before-facing-the-travails-of-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/12\/02\/a-little-tranquility-before-facing-the-travails-of-december\/","title":{"rendered":"a little tranquility before facing the travails of december"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"thnLogoG\" <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font> If, like me, your Sunday dawns with gray skies, a winter-weather advisory<\/a>, the reality of that still un-addressed Christmas card list, and a pile of holiday shopping circulars filled with pending choices and expenses, you deserve a few moments of haiku bliss and relaxation at The Heron’s Nest<\/em><\/a>. Yesterday, the December 2007 edition<\/a> (Vol IX, no. 4) went online, and it is brings us over one hundred haiku (with mercifully few psyku<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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afternoon shadows
\ntemple stones
\nstacked and numbered<\/p>\n

…………………… paul m. – The Heron’s Nest<\/em> (December 2007<\/a>), here<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Last September, we shared<\/a> the sixteen poems by f\/k\/a<\/em> Honored Guest Poets selected for the autumn edition of THN<\/em>. Of the 104 one-breath poems in the new winter edition, the f\/k\/a<\/em> family again provided 16 poems. Here are half of them (more to follow in the next few days):<\/p>\n

grown wild
\nthe spot where I buried
\nthe last of my pets<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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flickering buzz
\nof the pool hall sign
\nsummer night<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

……………………….. John Stevenson<\/a> – The Heron’s Nest<\/em> (December 2007<\/a>), see here<\/a> and there<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

long morning shadows \u2014
\nhalf shells flipped over
\nby the tide<\/p>\n

……………………… Gary Hotham – The Heron’s Nest<\/em> (December 2007<\/a>), here<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are dozens of other excellent poets whose work can be found in this and every edition of The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/em>. Congratulations to John Barlow, Petar Tchouhov, and Michele Root-Bernstein, whose poems were honored as Editor\u2019s Choices<\/a> in the December 2007 edition of The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

she leaves
\nthe gate open
\nIndian Summer<\/p>\n

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birdsong . . .
\na blind child touches
\nmy smile<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…………………….. Alice Frampton<\/a> – The Heron’s Nest<\/em> (December 2007<\/a>), here<\/a> and there<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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evening news \u2014
\neach cloud carries
\npart of the sunset<\/p>\n

……………….. Laryalee Fraser – The Heron’s Nest<\/em> (December 2007<\/a>), here<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

dagosan<\/em> was honored to have this poem selected for the new Heron’s Nest<\/em>. It was written to commemorate the 60th Wedding Anniversary<\/a> of Mama and Papa G, which we celebrated last September. (and see MagnaPoets<\/a> Japanese Form<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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hazy harvest moon
\nthe face I met
\nwhen our skin was smooth<\/p>\n

……………………………….. David Giacalone – The Heron’s Nest<\/em> (December 2007<\/a>), here<\/a><\/p>\n

If, despite all the above tranquility, you are looking for a little agitation this morning, the usually-proudly cynical Scott Greenfield, of the Sentimental<\/strike> Simple Just<\/a><\/em> weblog, has a lengthy continuation of the The ABA Journal Blawg 100<\/a> controversy (which we discussed here<\/a>), titled “The Secret Award for Best Blawg<\/a>” (Dec. 2, 2007). Scott, after a bit of grousing over link-love-lost (and positing the strange idea that an article in the ABA Journal<\/em> somehow equates to an endorsement by the entire organization), gets rather maudlin, saying “As for me, there is no award that the blawgosphere has to offer that is more important than the community of the blawgosphere. The friction that has developed around these awards, and surfaced with this ABA Blawg 100, isn’t worth it. ”<\/p>\n

Personally, I refuse to believe that grown men (it is mostly the male blawggers who are making the noises and piling up pixels over this list) are sincerely upset about the List and that some important, lasting rift has opened in the so-called community of blawggers. Could EQ<\/a> really be so low among JDs? I’d prefer to think that my weblog colleagues are doing what guys (and especially lawyers and bloggers) do so well — take the opportunity presented by a public event to vent a bit, state pet peeves, and get some attention.<\/p>\n

their laughter
\nis not about me
\nbut would sound
\njust like that
\nif it was<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..\u2026\u2026\u2026 by John Stevenson – Quiet Enough<\/em> (2004)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Moreover, unlike Scott, I do not believe that “Every time somebody reads one of our posts, we win the secret award for best blawg.” I’m happy for every reader (even those who get here inadvertently, thanks to search engine magic), but I refuse to give myself a gold star for every visitor, nor put that much pressure on our readers.\u00a0 People read a particular posting for a lot of different reasons (not all particularly complimentary). You don’t have to think we’re the best blawg<\/em> to stop by f\/k\/a<\/em> (and talking to me in the school cafeteria doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve got a big crush on Prof. Yabut).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If, like me, your Sunday dawns with gray skies, a winter-weather advisory, the reality of that still un-addressed Christmas card list, and a pile of holiday shopping circulars filled with pending choices and expenses, you deserve a few moments of haiku bliss and relaxation at The Heron’s Nest. Yesterday, the December 2007 edition (Vol IX, […]<\/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":[555,1414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu","category-qs-quickies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2ew","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588","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=8588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12395,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588\/revisions\/12395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}