Blessings,

Kathy

Thank you, Stella, for yet another generous project you have here. Your love for poetry obviously fires you. And i, as most other aspiring poets, revel in it. Thanks again!
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Thank-you, Stella, for assembling this blog carnival. I look forward to inching my way through it in the coming days. I’m glad to be part of it, alongside so many creative and ‘sensitive’ writers from around the world ~

Dora
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take care!

Somewhere there, besides the strength of the plant, I believe, also lies the thought of silkworms who fed on mulberry leaves to produce their durable and elegant yarn . .

Great to have found your blog Stella, I’m writing this as I stare across a narrow strip of sea over to the Turkish shores (although further south to where you sat). Wishing you a great, creatively moving year!
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thank you for the inspiring word-images!

epiphany–
waiting for the wise
men to appear

Best, Margaret

Σου εύχομαι χρόνια πολλά.
Παρότι καταλαβαίνω ότι μετεωρίζεσαι σε χρόνους, που είναι ανεξάρτητοι από τις σταθερές ημερομηνίες των γιορτών.

Μπάμπης Μιχαηλίδης Κριναίος

22-12-2011

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i like the quick rush of understanding this ku brings me too – something i wouldnt think about if i did not grow up near the sea. cool. aloha.
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it’s interesting to be brought back to the surface of reality in that way. a dog or a cat would never mistake this for a whale or the girl – well may be in the right situation – but not for long. humans would think of it this way tho – a girl riding a whale… yeah. interesting. sometimes we are so smart we fool our selves.

fun haiga. aloha.
Wrick recently posted..#3 November: Haiga ~ Day of the Dead

…that said… i too often discover after posting some tweak i think would make the work better. i have a slight conflict going in that – with myself i mean:

on one side i like the spontaneous splat of what i’m doing. over working it often dulls the edges.

…on the other side of it…. sometimes a little time and perspective would help me see the work with a fresh eye.

and on the third side… if i wait to post something, i often begin to feel like it’s not… quite there and then i dont post it because i’ve gone on to something else i’m more excited about…

so i’ve decided to try to catch things, but still post as they come out (mostly). i’m okay with me being human and not quite perfect… other than as a human being of course.

fun to see your comment and thinking. thank you. aloha.
Wrick recently posted..#3 November: Haiga ~ Day of the Dead

btw – congratulations on your entry in the WHA Haiga contest. very cool. aloha.
rick recently posted..#3 November: Haiga ~ Day of the Dead

What wonder to step into your blog! Each post reads like a message from stars. I pick each word like I would a finger-dust from those stars. Thank you for sharing your gift and your always warm words in my blog.

Alegria

On this NaHaiWriMo haiku, my comment: More than awesome! What clinches it is the first line…
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funny, i didnt see your reply come up in my comment area. i’m not sure why that is. thanks for playing in my call for September too. aloha.
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i like the way you move my eye around and around in this – pushing, pulling, reversing, circling and cycling – like the flow of river – it’s mesmerizing to explore – both visual exploration and meaning exploration – yeah, this is what i mean – wow and beautiful. …and it looks to me… like you are having fun. i like that too. aloha.
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I just visited your site, and I am very impressed… I printed out to read the article about the introduction of haiku (the first in Greece) by Pavlos Krinaios in 1926. Thank you for pointing it out. Very strong work in there!

By the way, you may be aware of the article The History of Haiku in Greece in Shamrock No 17 (http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com/shamrockno17.htm).

PS I couldn’t get your URL to work at first, but then I could get to your site like this: http://haiku-first.eu/

Παρακαλώ δες αν θέλεις τις παραπάνω ιστοσελίδες για τον Παύλο Κριναίο, ριγμένο κάπως από τα “κυκλώματα αμοιβαίου θαυμασμού” στην Ελλάδα, που περιχαράκωσαν τις ποιητικές τους “δόξες”, σαν τα αυθαίρετα.

Μπάμπης Μιχαηλίδης
5-9-2011

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your birthday

I didn`t forget

today

Marie.

I do like this one, first attempt and all.

I’m not a big fan of my own submission for today, but this is my first anything WriMo, so I’m still learning. Thanks for the inspiration!
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i’m hosting the Dec edition of Lang/Place and i hope you’ll send something again.
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I enjoyed the poetry and the blog also.
let me know if you are able to veiw my poetry book online please.

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/56248734/haiku-poetry-and-paintings

I agree, questioning what is worthy of our time does mean our time is well spent.

Yes, frequent flying and the new findings…also worth thinking about. My guess would be a time difference of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second in five lifetimes!

I am glad you got to know some of the surrounding areas, though – I loved your posts on Oberammergau.

I’m a little bit like the little girl in your story. In some ways I’m obsessed by the finite number of years, months, days, minutes, seconds (you get the idea) we get in life – the exact number unknown.

There are a lot of minor annoyances I run across in daily life but nothing more bothersome than when I find my self in situations or with people that waste my time. Most people treat time as a commodity as something they have in limited supply – but once spent it’s gone.

Of course I get such pleasure out of time well spent – a return on my investment …like reading your blog.

As you know I fly a lot for my job and now I’m wondering at what happens at those really high altitudes?

On the other hand, North Norfolk and the North Sea are wonderful. Did I not write a micro-poem about these areas? see escarp http://bit.ly/9ADSzD

Thank you for your comment, Hermann

This made me think of a theme in my own line of work, where we are interested in investigating the principles and ‘units’ of our perceptual representation of the world and our ability to share this with others. Our perceptual apparatus represents the world in terms of separable categories, some of which are ‘innate’, such as the dimensions of color, motion, etc., while others are acquired through sharing them with others.

While a shared language is clearly important for the latter (learning to classify the world and the objects it contains in terms of semantic categories), the sharing would not work without our being able to share attention. In my view, the capacity to take into account the other and his/her perspective (to develop what is referred to as a ‘Theory of Mind’) and to establish ‘joint attention’ sets us apart from non-human primates (though some of these have evolved it to some degree). Just like language, this capacity, while innate, must be developed in childhood, for which the mother-child interaction – e.g., pointing to and looking at objects of common interest – is most important (failure to develop it leads to autistic behavior). And it is elemental, in that it even underpins communication by means of language, which allows us to refer to objects symbolically. In this sense, it is an essential ingredient of the ‘amniotic fluid’ in which linguistic communication – and ultimately also works of literature (novels, poems, etc.) – can take on shape.

While some of these themes have been explored in disparate strands of research (ranging from psychoanalytically inspired investigations of child development to psycho-linguistics), our understanding of these issues may be advanced by a more integrated approach that draws on recent advances in the social-cognitive neuroscience of attention.