{"id":9307,"date":"2008-05-18T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T18:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/05\/18\/opening-dr-bills-notebook\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:27","slug":"opening-dr-bills-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/05\/18\/opening-dr-bills-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"opening Dr. Bill’s notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

w.f. owen’s haiku notebook<\/em><\/strong> . . . \"\"
\n. . . . the book<\/a> and the weblog<\/a> . . . .<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong> M<\/em><\/strong>y chronic<\/a> fascination with the “search strings” that bring Googlers (and Yahoo!’s) to this website paid off big a couple days ago, when I noticed that someone had visited us after Googling \/haiku professor bald<\/a>\/. Our Search Engine Visitor found George Swede’s classic senryu here at f\/k\/a<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

as the professor speaks
\nonly his bald spot
\nis illuminated<\/p>\n

…. by George Swede<\/strong><\/span><\/a> from <\/span><\/span><\/span>Almost<\/em> Unseen: Selected Haiku of George Swede<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>
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What I discovered by following a nearby Google link was this one-line haiku:<\/p>\n

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spring moon from the balcony a bald head \"\"
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– <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>haiku notebook<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> blog (March 28, 2008)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

and<\/em>, a cure for the frequent lament that “I never have enough new haiku by w.f. — Dr. Bill — owen<\/a>.” That’s because “spring moon . . .” was located at a weblog called “haiku notebook by w. f. owen<\/a><\/em>,” and the site is described as:<\/p>\n

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“[A]n extension of the ideas presented in my book (haiku notebook<\/a><\/em>, Lulu.com, 2007). It is intended to be a forum for discussing haiku and haibun. My hope as an educator is to stimulate interest in writing these forms. So, please feel free to post.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"\" Like any “family member” who feels forlornly out of the loop, my first thought was the whiny “why I am always the last to know?” But, my very next thought was “yippee! more Dr. Bill for me and you and f\/k\/a<\/em>!” There’s at least two points that need to be made about haiku notebook<\/em>:<\/p>\n