Haiku Life

From burned bones in a South African cave a million years ago, to every possible earthly point, through the hell of the trenches to the banks of a random Grahamstown lake - the campfire crackles. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

Are we the bird? Or the feather? Or here simply to notice the thinning veil? The bird in the sky? The feather floating? A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

If you discover Haiku Life somewhere down the road and see nine episodes about a poodle, don't worry—you haven't accidentally subscribed to a dog podcast! Those nine episodes are the beginning of the story.  From Episode 10 we explore the many subjects that make up life from their start in just a few words. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on...

Depth charge filled grey frigate or cloud, bringing threat or salvation - a matter of context. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

Do fish like the rain? Drumming on a choppy wave .....I wasn't too sure what I was going to talk about for the haiku in question - but then it came pretty easy between the Nahoon Rver and Rijksmuseum. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

Here's a story of a lucky Hummingbird getting ready for the marvels of migration. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

The little foragers, so low on the food chain, slumber high in the tree tops in a pile of sticks. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

Having played the second witch in a school production of Macbeth, I am pretty partial to the famous line, "by the pricking of my thums, something wicked this way comes" – and it certainly came to mind in the writing of this haiku. Writing on a lounger by the pool, dog day summer heat prickling on my skin, distant thunder rolling in the electric air. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcas...

I jump around like a puppet whose puppeteer has completely lost the plot, combing my fingers through my hair all the way home.  A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

The river - tranquil, romantic, pitiless. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

Letting World War 2 seep into a stroll along the Atlantic.  A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

We will likely never see an Albatross in real life. No doubt many of us go about our daily life with one weighing heavy around our neck. But on the other side of the doldrums, of every hellish thing. There is a beach. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast...

Taming the worrying, fearful ruminations on the Mary-Go-Round of my mind when the focus goes from eye to hand. Like Churchill and his brick-laying. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

Golfers, particularly golf moms, often view golf courses as minefields, full of hazards. But what do we know about a literal minefield? We pray to God, we rain balls down around the geese. Neither seems to care. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

We stumble into the mire of irrational fear. You're not going to look at a mushroom ring the same again, and definitely not if you share my phobia. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

So impressed with the island territory that sits on the southern end of the Bermuda Triangle. What sets Puerto Rico apart is its people and their commitment to the animals that share their space. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

We stick a feather in our hat and get caught up in the world of Monk Parakeets on teh golf course and beyond. How wonderful that the Universe, and the good people of the northern climes, provide what is needed. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

Sometimes the wind is pleasantly at your back. Sometimes its a full frontal assault. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

Freedom to write poetry, no matter how bad, that bursts through consciousness like burned sugar vaporizing on blue flame. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

In this episode, waves crash, come back. Despite our attachment to the picture, nothing is permanent. But that's what makes transformation - and erosion - possible. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

Common ground is found amongst people on the sand in the optimism of morning and the resolution of the setting sun. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

Daytona Bike Week prompts a rumination. on amost sending myself and my dad to an early grave. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

There are great benefits to be found in trees for people and communities. Unfortunately the benefits do not discernibly translate to profits for shareholders or cities. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

Until we can stop rounding up Wild Mustangs, dismantle kill pens, and stop sending thousands of horses to slaughter there really is nothing to celebrate. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.

This episode was written by Robbie Macmillan of Rob's Rescues and looks at our backyard birds, specifically the Cardinals, and wonders why they choose to live where they do. A transcript of this Haiku Life podcast together with photos will be available on the mygreatergood.com website. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram - Haiku Life Podcast.