hey, I come on and off, but this will eventually be taken off. please add me at dening (LJ). I do like to read my LJ-friends' journals from time to time, and it makes it easier with just a click.

I
A finger poises--
our introductions under
blankets of grey snow.

II
Man from Del Monte
smiles charily atop the din--
a pink blossom!

III
A puffin takes flight
into the autumn cool. What
about the other?

it would not matter how horrifically bad my haikus are if I could only coax a smile from you this early, quiet morning.

Pain is easy to write. In pain, we're all drably individual. But what can one write about happiness?

addendum [10 april]:
the comments an apt quote could incite!

I am happy, and that is the point! how does one write about happiness? how can I convey it strongly enough to match my feelings? and, without veering into solipsism? for I am blissfully ( Read more... )

I bought a little bottle of sea salt recently. but it has been sitting there, unopened. there just isn't the time to use it. to cook. if only time was transferable ( Read more... )

( awesome! )

in december I thought it was just another incidental rush-to-the-hospital situation, so I did not think too much about it. then I heard granny was really not doing too good and was warded at the CCU. I got myself down to the hospital one lunch time. no aunt was around - they were all working - and when I got to her room something in me.. just gave ( Read more... )

I'd be really selfish not to share this. the damage today is $14.19 which isn't too bad. if I am to reason it, it is actually excellent as it is a martin amis and recommended by a fellow david mitchell fan! I cannot ask for more. that said, please don't blame me if you need new shelves like I sorely do.

reflections are key during christmastime, not resolutions. one lead to the other, of course, but as they say, resolutions should be and can be made anytime, any day, at one's own pace. the twinkling baubles and fake snow and madding crowd are the ones that always make me think ( Read more... )

these show what I had been busy with:


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life is pretty darn good. 4 and 1/2 hour shut-eye/night aside, and the accompanied slugginess in the mornings and workworkwork and aching legs, hey-ey, I daresay I like petting cuttlefish while diving at dayang island, enjoying a date so much I did not admire my food nor properly taste it, and running fast and hard and long.