August 18 – sweet or savory

sweet or savory
eat, drink, find satisfaction
this, a gift of God

Inspired by:

Ecclesiastes 3:13
That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. (NIV)

I admit to suspect editing as the verse itself points to satisfaction in all your toil not in the eat antd drink as I imply in the Haiku.

Chalk it up to creative license and inspiration versus quoting.

We are made in God’s image.

Therefore, God must have a nose.

We read in Deuteronomy, “There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. (4:28)

Therefore, there must be smells in Heaven.

In Genesis, we read that Noah, built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma. (8:21-22)

If God smells the pleasing aroma from Earth, there must be pleasing aromas in Heaven.

Therefore, there must be coffee…

One more thing to look forward to Heaven.

August 17 – voyage, discover

voyage, discover
not in seeking new landscapes
but having new eyes

“A pair of wings, a different respiratory system, which enabled us to travel through space, would in no way help us, for if we visited Mars or Venus while keeping the same senses, they would clothe everything we could see in the same aspect as the things of the Earth. The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do, with great artists; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.”

From the ‘La Prisonnière’, the fifth volume of ‘Remembrance of Things Past‘ (also known as) ‘In Search of Lost Time’ by Marcel Proust.

Had a weekend at the oceanfront.

With every tidal sequence, every wave, the beach is swept clean and a clean slate, a new landscape, never seen before, never seen again is presented to me.

Change, opportunity, without boundaries.

On the day we returned, we learned of a new child on the way and that a dear friend was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.

Circle of life indeed.

Each day, endless change, new landscapes, new discoveries, within a tight circle of limits unknown and unrevealed.

No mutual exclusion zone.

A reminder that a person with limited time, emotional capacity and cultural bandwidth, could more effectively set their schedule, but how?

August 16 – outside the off stump

outside the off stump
bowled, L B W
65 for 3

Hard to get my creative conscious to focus away from cricket when I am listening to the 2nd Test of the 2019 Ashes from Lords.

I used the cricket term, L B W which stands for Leg Before Wicket.

Leg before wicket (lbw) is one of the ways in which a batter can be dismissed in the sport of cricket. Following an appeal by the fielding side, the umpire may rule a batter out lbw if the ball would have struck the wicket, but was instead intercepted by any part of the batter’s body (except the hand holding the bat). The umpire’s decision will depend on a number of criteria, including where the ball pitched, whether the ball hit in line with the wickets, and whether the batter was attempting to hit the ball. (Wikipedia)

Names and Numbers on the shirts for the first time

I have to point out that, from a Haiku point of view, using the initial, W, instead of the word, WICKET, uses more syllables.

I am reminded of the time at WZZM13 that I was asked to write out a tag line about the website for use on air.

I was told to keep it simple.

So I wrote out, ‘Go to Double You Double You Double You dot Double You Zee Zee Emm Thirteen dot com for more information.’

If I remember right, the producer put it in the script like that which made the anchor laugh out loud on air.

Then he read the tag, slowly.

August 15 – enjoy the moment

enjoy the moment
there are good times and bad times
life goes up and down

Can’t get more simplistic than that.

But reminding myself to enjoy those moments when I can, not because a bad time might be or is coming, but just because its a good time.

Without strings.

Without condtitions.

Without reservations.

Without questions.

Without worries.

Enjoy those good times.

Might not last, but there will be more.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
Romans 12:15

August 14 – Anamiewigummig

House will be called
Anamiewigummig or
A House of Prayer

Came across Anamiewigummig the other day in a story about an NHL player who was homeless, Joe Murphy, Red Wings’ No. 1 pick, is homeless again — and refusing help.

In the article, Jeff Seidel of the Detroit Free Press writes, “Murphy, 51, walks into the Anamiewigummig Fellowship Centre, a drop-in center that provides clothing, food, coffee and a shower for free to homeless people in Kenora.”

I stopped and read Anamiewigummig again.

And again.

And I read it outloud.

Trying to sound it out the way the Grand Daughter does when she reads.

I had no clue.

How would you pronounce this word?

How could you pronounce this word?

Why in the world, if you were naming a fellowship center, would you use Anamiewigummig?

Okay, we are talking about Canada, but still.

Anamiewigummig?

I would not let it go, and a I googled it.

First thing I found out was that Google didn’t like the word at all.

Google asked, Did you mean: Anime Swimming?

Spell check also didn’t like it either which is always a plus in my book.

The second thing I found out is that most of the Google results were connected to the same place, The Kenora Fellowship Centre in Kenora, ON.

The place mentioned in the story about Joe Murphy.

According to the web, The Kenora Fellowship Centre is a ministry of the Presbyterian Church in Canada that provides sanctuary and hospitality, help and comfort to the vulnerable, the disadvantaged and displaced. The centre also caters for countless individuals who are marginalized and alienated because of poverty and addiction. It operates as a drop-in centre and works with legal services, detoxification programs, street patrol and other essential services in the community.

The third thing I found out is that anamiewigummig is an Ojibway word.

“Ojibwa, Ojibway, or Chippewa, and most commonly referred to in the language as Anishinaabemowin) varies from dialect to dialect, but all varieties share common features. Ojibwe is an indigenous language of the Algonquian language family spoken in Canada and the United States in the areas surrounding the Great Lakes, and westward onto the northern plains in both countries, as well as in northeastern Ontario and northwestern Quebec.” from Wikipedia

It seems to be pronounced, AHN A Mie WIG a MIG.

Forgive my rudimentary phonetics.

I am guessing at this from listening to a YouTube video about Anamiewigummig.

The word means, House of Prayer.

And House of Prayer comes from, And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? Mark 11:17 (NIV).

Anamiewigummig.

Pretty cool use of a word.