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The Best of It: Mostly About the Food Edition
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New Year, New Home
In the season finale of the Culinary Saijiki podcast, I talked with Mark Scott of Naturalist Weekly, which was one of my favorite blogs of 2022. In the conversation, I had the idea of spending 2023 investigating the micro-seasons around me. I decided that since I wanted to find a way to write more consistently…
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5 Ways to Feel Better on an Airplane
I’m writing this from Austin, where I’ve returned for Module 1 of my Peak Pilates Level 3 Comprehensive teacher training. While my flight was a pretty easy one, the cramped conditions of a budget flight can take their toll, and I found myself needing to fidget and stretch. Below are five Pilates-based moves that I…
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The Best of It: Christmas Eve Edition
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Some Terribly Sentimental Thing
This was one of the last poems I wrote before COVID. I composed it on December 24th, 2019. It previously appeared in the 2020 Poetry at Round Top Anthology. I chose to post it tonight because I’m missing three poetry friends who have died in the past few years, as well as my grandfathers, who…
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Mark Scott: Haiku, Food, and the Micro-Seasons
More about Mark ScottLearn more about the micro-seasons at https://naturalistweekly.com/.Support Naturalist Weekly: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/naturalistCFind Naturalist Weekly on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/naturalistweekly/ Harvest TimeRead the most recent community blog post at: https://culinarysaijiki.com/2022/12/04/bonus-post-community-harvest/ Join the ConversationSeason 2 will focus on food as it appears on classical haiku. If you would like to be on a Season 2 podcast episode,…
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Bonus Post: Community Harvest
Talk about a cornucopia of poetry! For this bonus post, people took me up on my offer of multiple forms. I received not only haiku, but also tanka and tan-renga, and submissions came from three different continents! It was a delight to put this post together over the course of a cold winter afternoon, drinking…
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Jerome Berglund: Wishbone’s Sharp Crack
In GratitudeThanks to Peter Schmidt for buying me 5 coffees this month! I’m now 48% of the way to having my web hosting covered for the year. If you want to contribute financially, visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/culinarysaijiki. Contributors get a bonus recipe every month! November Community Blog PostI’m putting together another community blog post (view the May…
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The Season for Reflection and Rest
First, thanks to Peter Schmidt for buying me 5 coffees this month! I’m now 48% of the way to having my web hosting covered for the year. Second, remember to send work for the Community Bonus Post at the end of the month. That will be the last blog post for 2022! Send your work…
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Send haiku for the community blog post
With a bonus Tuesday in November, I decided I wanted to host another community blog post! (View the May community post here.) The first submission has already come in! I look forward to reading all the poems that come in and assembling them. Theme: Harvest Deadline: 11:59 p.m. CST on Wednesday, November 23rd Submission Form:…