{"id":8653,"date":"2007-12-13T20:13:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T01:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/12\/13\/our-gift-to-you-a-2008-haiga-memor"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:35","slug":"our-gift-to-you-a-2008-haiga-memories-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/12\/13\/our-gift-to-you-a-2008-haiga-memories-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"our gift to you: a 2008 haiga memories calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\" T<\/em><\/strong>he f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang has had a lot of fun over the past year creating and sharing haiga<\/a> (a picture with a linked poem) that combine photographs taken more than half a century ago by “Mama G<\/em>” (Connie M. Giacalone) with haiku or senryu penned by her son, your f\/k\/a<\/em> host, David Giacalone. The expressive faces — whether impish, sheepish, or cherubish<\/em> — of Linda, Arthur and David, the three Giacalone sibs<\/a>, bring back memories and suggest timeless childhood themes, many of which are echoed in our adult lives.<\/p>\n

You can find many of those haiga scattered around the MagnaPoets Japanese Form<\/em><\/a> group weblog, and in miniature form here and there at this website. But, to help spread the cheer and to thank our many readers this Holiday Season, I decided to bring a dozen of the Giacalone Nostalgia Haiga together in one place, and to give them an aura of utility by packaging them as a monthly calendar. Just click this link to find the fka<\/em> Haiga Memories Calendar 2008<\/a><\/strong>. It’s presented as a printable Word document (in landscape mode), and comes to 14 pages, with the front and back covers.<\/p>\n

You’re allowed to giggle and even snicker, but please-please don’t use what our “a” friend Aurora Antonovic<\/a> (proprietress of MagnaPoets<\/em> and haiga editor of Simply Haiku Journal<\/em>) calls the “a-word” — adorable. Prof. Yabut would blush. Please enjoy — with our thanks and best wishes for a joy-filled, inspiring holiday season and New Year.<\/p>\n

afterthought <\/strong><\/em>(Dec. 14, 2007):\u00a0\u00a0 As explained here<\/a>, we’ve also created a more “artsy” (less kitschy) calendar for your pleasure throughout the New Year.\u00a0 See the Giacalone Haiga Calendar 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

. . . the f\/k\/a<\/em> Haiga Memories Calendar 2008 \u00a9<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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[Calendar Cover, Art & Connie<\/a> Giacalone,
\nmarried September 13, 1947]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

home for Christmas \u2013
\nnana calls the baby
\nby her daddy\u2019s name<\/p>\n

………………………… by dagosan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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twelve days ’til Christmas —
\nthe tree and her cat
\nboth shedding<\/p>\n

……………………………… by dagosan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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