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Composting Bodies Is Now Legal in a Dozen States:
Honoring Earth Day with a new kind of return to nature -
“Hand to Earth” by Andy Goldsworthy:
Goldsworthy’s work using natural, found resources can serve as inspiration for incorporating art into loss -
Trans Remembrance Project Provides a Community of Grieving:
Online shrine offers commiseration, resources and hope around the world
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Tag Archives: Haiku
A Heartfelt Message from SevenPonds
Always keep your loved ones in your heart
Posted in A Rite of Passage
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Tagged Flower hearts, Haiku, Handmade hearts, Heart wreath, Memorial haiku
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Japanese Death Poems, Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
What words are as packed full of meaning and metaphor then those of a haiku?
I’ve been fascinated by haiku ever since I first laid eyes on one. Their intrinsic nature is to elicit mystery swirling around their brevity of words. Not only are they the shortest poems known to mankind, haiku unfailingly evoke breathtaking … Continue reading →
Posted in Lending Insight
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Tagged Book Review, Death and Dying, Death Poems, Haiku, haiku poets, Japanese Death Poems, on the verge of death, Poetry, Zen Buddhist, Zen Monks
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Memorial Saying: The stillness of dawn: crashing between the branches, a solitary leaf.
- J. W. Hackett
Posted in A Rite of Passage
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Tagged Haiku, J. W. Hackett Saying, Memorial Saying, Sayings About Death, Sayings About Life
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Memorial Quotes: “Now at journey’s end, circling the shallow stream… years of open sea.”
- J. W. Hackett
”I shift my pillow closer to the full moon.”
- Saiba, Died on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, 1858 at the age of fifty-one.