Sunday Morning

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First blossoms.

Seeing them extends my life seventy-five more years.

~Matsuo Bashō, “haiku 96”, from “Reading Basho with My Ten Year Old” in Paris Review, April 29, 2020

Notes:

  • Photo: DK on Run This morning. 6:11 am.
  • Matsuo Bashō, born 松尾 金作, was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. He is recognized as the greatest master of haiku. He was born in 1644 and died in 1694

48 thoughts on “Sunday Morning”

  3. I love how you send me in so many directions with the quotes you choose. I am in awe of your ability to dig into your vast storage for SOMETHING applicable. I am constantly finding myself sitting here thinking, have I read nothing? But then I think, this is what David does, he shares what touches him in some way and we all grow. Thank you.
    Beautiful image, once again!

    1. Awww yes Dale. This is it, exactly as you have outlined it. If it moves me, it goes up. This genius Haiku poet from the 1600s captures the beauty in a few words/lines. Feeling like I feel hundreds of years later. I’m awed by all of it.

      1. I love that you do. My horizons have widened exponentially since “meeting” you! Yes. And I loved that article. Sharing Basho with her 10-year old and seeing how clearly the imagery formed in his head…and the to write them, himself. Wow. Just. Wow.

      1. Photo is too special to pick on you. This is sacred.

        “he himself most valued his ability to write poems that required another poet to add lines to his prompt, to which he would add additional lines. He valued most his ability to share a creative space.”
        So you too 🙏🏻

          1. These are not my words, DK. I quoted Marie Mutsuki Mockett.
            I’m just saying you are like that too!

          3. Omg!!!!!!!!!
            Dear David, it’s The Paris Review story, YOUR haiku source from THIS POST.

          7. I’ve been trying so hard to be nice and normal. And you go and hand me this on a silver tray, no, on a diamond studded 24-carat gold tray.

            YOU better stay on your toes, I’m watching you now, k?

      1. LAUGHING……
        No religious abstinence. Just training myself to be more nice and normal.

          1. I’m trying. If I can achieve that by the time I’m 50 it’ll be the biggest achievement of my life 🙂

          3. How is this a tip?
            You know, I’ve been trying all my life. I’ll stop all attempts over 50.

  5. Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
    Awesome!! … ‘First blossoms. Seeing them extends my life seventy-five more years. ~Matsuo Bashō, “haiku 96”, from “Reading Basho with My Ten Year Old” in Paris Review, April 29, 2020.

  6. Gorgeous Dogwood tree on stately grounds…I took a photo of a gorgeous Dogwood tree up the road just late yesterday afternoon (my favorite Dogwood was the one in my childhood backyard, a Red Cherokee we also have native White Dogwoods it is such a Joy to spot one in the woods or along the hwy and my 2nd favorite destroyed when they tore down a local school)…he might take me for a drive today asked if I’d like to I said yes…I said the name of where I want to go he said why I said because every year I drive there to see the most magnificent huge Magnolia tree… I also have a favorite native Oak, favorite Chestnut trees, Willow, Aspen and Old Growth Fir…I’ve had a Love Affair with Trees since my very early Childhood…and I was in the bedroom when we were a young married couple when a cedar came down on the room I was in…that was an experience…I spent the rest of the night on the kitchen floor with my head against the refrigerator and my feet at the stove I figured that if the rest of the school marm tree came down it would squish the refrig and stove so I’d be safe…

    1. So love this: “I spent the rest of the night on the kitchen floor with my head against the refrigerator and my feet at the stove I figured that if the rest of the school marm tree came down it would squish the refrig and stove so I’d be safe”

    2. Searching the comments to get an ID on the tree. Down here in Texas we only have white dogwoods (that I am aware of). Love this tree. I have to have one. Cherokee Red, yes?

  8. Blossom time is so beautiful after a bleak winter, especially this year with the virus putting a damper on life. The blossoms give new hope for happiness.

  11. Beautiful pic and quote! Love his work. ‘There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.’ Matsuo Basho

  12. You live in a very beautiful area….

    I can’t seem to sub to you and it’s VERY annoying. I’m sighing to WP but they don’t hear me.

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