The unrelenting brutality of grief and the pervasive pall of mourning The verse that emerges in these clumsy attempts at Haiga creation is often bleak, reflecting the unrelenting brutality of grief and the pervasive pall of mourning. Haiga is a Japanese concept describing a refined visual art of combining brush painting, Haiku,and calligraphy. A traditional..
Ephemeral Mist: We Exist Then Disappear Haiga is a Japanese concept describing a refined visual art of combining brush painting, Haiku (or sometimes Tanka, as here), and calligraphy. A traditional Haiga requires all three of these elements. Like the poetic form it accompanies, Haiga is based on simple, yet often what one hopes are profound,..
Haiga creation in the midst of grief-driven foreboding Haiga is a Japanese concept describing a refined visual art of combining brush painting, haiku, and calligraphy. A traditional haiga requires all three of these elements. Like the poetic form it accompanies, haiga is based on simple, yet often profound, observations of the everyday world. https://thehaikufoundation.org/juxta/juxta-5-1/juxta-5-1-haiga/..
A Tale of Two Annes Back in high school about 250 years ago, we studied A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. I feel like I’m undergoing a novel experience of a much more intense and baffling sort in my personal life: A Tale of Two Annes. My wife Anne has been stricken..
On love and death Haiga is a style of Japanese art that combines a haiku poem with a painting or drawing, often using calligraphy to integrate the text with the visual art. It’s a visual form of poetry that seeks to capture the essence of the poem through both words and imagery. I use Haiga to frame poetic..
Support workers in end-of-life homecare play a vital role in enhancing the quality of life (QOL) for individuals and their families by providing practical, emotional, and social support. They offer assistance with personal care, mobility, medication management, and symptom management, while also providing companionship and emotional support to both the individual and their family. This is our..
The Haiku and Haiga Chronicles: Exhaustion, Loss, and Prolonged Sorrow
Anne as an indomitable decorator: A feisty artist whom brain cancer can impede but never defeat Everybody who knows Anne knows that she’s a decorator; she calls herself the “Decorating Turkey.” Our sons have dubbed her “couth”; even the house in which we raised our rowdy boys in suburban Quebec City was “couth” and..
Basho in Bedlam and Being Unceremoniously Thrown Out Of Bed: An Excessively Precipitous Taper A victim of implacable, incurable brain cancer, of glioblastoma, my darling wife Anne has been subject to well-intentioned medical experimentation ever since was diagnosed and operated on just over two short months ago. It’s clear that her new “Annehood” has..
Taigu Ryokan was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet of the Edo period, known for his unconventional lifestyle and unadorned, deeply personal poetry. https://allpoetry.com/Taigu-Ryokan Haiku’s more visual cousin, the haiga, unites a haiku poem, written in calligraphy, with a simple painting. https://poets.org/text/haiga-haiku-calligraphy-and-painting In our new world of shared grief and absurd wonder..