I had a chance to practice what I am choosing to call “haiku mind” today.
Specifically, instead of being stimulated by something and then running my quickened perceptions up the flagpole - and down the well - of my inner being to make this interesting something mine, so to speak, I simply allow this special something to "speak" to me while I just "listen".
Specifically, instead of being stimulated by something and then running my quickened perceptions up the flagpole - and down the well - of my inner being to make this interesting something mine, so to speak, I simply allow this special something to "speak" to me while I just "listen".
I don't run with it. I just stay with it, as it is, and try to feel my way into it and then simply convey what I see in the simplest, and truest, of terms as a haiku poem.
It is a very enjoyable change - of mind - for me. I need it and I am ready for it.
NOTE TO READER: As per my pledge to tone down the expansive quality of my writing (see previous blog, "TOS - Haiku For You") I just resisted the urge to add really before the word need and ready in the last sentence. Wow! This is a New Year, indeed.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: Maybe this is what is known as practicing "restraint". If so, it makes sense that it would be the antidote to practicing "expansiveness".
It is a very enjoyable change - of mind - for me. I need it and I am ready for it.
NOTE TO READER: As per my pledge to tone down the expansive quality of my writing (see previous blog, "TOS - Haiku For You") I just resisted the urge to add really before the word need and ready in the last sentence. Wow! This is a New Year, indeed.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: Maybe this is what is known as practicing "restraint". If so, it makes sense that it would be the antidote to practicing "expansiveness".
FINAL NOTE: Blog: "TOS - Haiku For You" is not on this blog site.
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