{"id":9501,"date":"2008-06-20T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T20:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/06\/20\/summers-here-more-mosquitos-than-fireflies\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:25","slug":"summers-here-more-mosquitos-than-fireflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/06\/20\/summers-here-more-mosquitos-than-fireflies\/","title":{"rendered":"summer’s here — more mosquitos than fireflies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/strong><\/em>t’s gonna be that <\/em>kind of summer, I fear. \"\"
\nOf course, when you have no control over a situation, a grin often works better than a sigh. dagosan <\/em>will be practicing his grin all night long, as we toast the summer solstice and the longest day of the year. Click for more mosquito haiku<\/a> and summer solstice haiku.<\/a><\/p>\n

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L<\/strong><\/em>ike pictures with your haiku? Soon today, you’ll find the Summer Solstice 2008 edition of HaigaOnline<\/a><\/em> (Vol. 9-1) to ease yourself into the new season. It’s theme is the wind bell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

summer solstice
\nour window chime
\nperfectly still<\/p>\n

….. by dagosan<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thankfully, lazybones dagosan<\/em> had a few summer solstice poems already tucked away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

i read
\nwhile she weeds
\nsummer begins<\/p>\n

\n

solstice party
\nthe fireflies
\nare no- shows<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

solstice party \"mosquito2\"
\nthe mosquito family
\nis the last to leave<\/p>\n

\n

shortest night –
\nthe insomniac
\nwaits for dawn<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

summer’s here!
\nwe work up a sweat
\nsleeping<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

haiga – originally at MagnaPoetsJF<\/a><\/em> (May 24, 2007)
\nphoto: Arthur Giacalone<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

………………………. by dagosan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

mosquito smudge smoke–
\nsoon the fireflies
\nleave too<\/p>\n

\"\"only one
\nfans my ear…
\nmosquito<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

one mosquito
\nwhining all day…
\nmy pillow<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

….. by Kobayashi Issa<\/a>, translated by David G. Lanoue
\n— 100 more<\/a> mosquito haiku by Issa —<\/p>\n

\"\" p.s.<\/em><\/strong> update 6 PM: Thanks to All Things Considered<\/em> on npr, I just learned that June is National Bathroom Reading Month<\/a>. See\/hear “potty reading promoted<\/a>” (by Margot Adler, June 20, 2008). Let’s face it, though, most books made to be read on the john are fairly tacky<\/a> (or, yuk, the covers often are). However, if you’re looking for something with a bit more class for your Bathroom Library (and a lot of us Boomers have plenty of time for reading these days, while using that room), I want to suggest blawger J. Craig Williams<\/a>‘ new book How to Get Sued<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. (Kaplan Publishing, June 2008).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a> Frankly, no matter what the newly-infamous<\/a> Judge Alex Kozinski says in the Forward, this is not the kind of book I would ever read cover-to-cover. But, its entertaining “lighter side look” at how real life turns into real litigation — with blurbs about scores of odd (at least at first blush) lawsuits – – is clearly higher-brow and more educational than most next-to-the-toilet compilations.\u00a0 Whether or not they wash their hands, your friends will come back to the party with plenty of questions and opinions about what’s wrong with our litigation system.\u00a0 I bet Walter Olson<\/a> has a copy in his half-bath powder room.<\/p>\n

\n

borrowed mystery \u2013
\nthe toilet-paper
\nbookmark<\/p>\n

\u2026. by dagosan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s gonna be that kind of summer, I fear. Of course, when you have no control over a situation, a grin often works better than a sigh. dagosan will be practicing his grin all night long, as we toast the summer solstice and the longest day of the year. Click for more mosquito haiku and […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-9501","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-2tf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501","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=9501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12255,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions\/12255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}