Silly Haiku – bones and the bones of how it all works

Dem bones dem silly bones

And one more for good measure:

Some left over bones
Swimming in my big stock pot
Good soup for dinner.

I spent my lunch hour in the food court writing haiku for the silliness class. This week’s theme was “bones” – did you guess that? I also used my phone to take photos of a couple of worksheets, edit them a bit and upload them to the group flickr site. That is enough to give any reasonable person pause: how miraculous is it, to be able to take photos with a phone, good photos, use the phone to crop and adjust the exposure, upload them via a phone data connection to a web site so other people all over the world can see them… Amazing.

I did think about how we spend our time. While others might have wondered what I was counting on my fingers in between writing things down (syllables), I couldn’t help but throw a few thoughts on how much one could write during 30-40 minutes if you did it with some dedication. Four haikus are better than nothing at all!

OK I already knew this – it’s that whole perseverance-persistence thing. You can get a whole lot done if you just keep going at it. Nothing gets done if you don’t do something. Got it. And with that I’m going upstairs to sew some more horizontal rows together. I think I am three rows away from the mid-point, and then things will get a little more complicated.

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Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has even been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself. — Alan Alda, actor

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Go ahead and laugh

Yeah yeah yeah. I’m making 40 more squares.

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Meanwhile, a whole lotta silliness going on

I’m taking this online class called “The Art of Silliness 3” which is a short exercise of some kind each day – often a bit of drawing or a visual puzzle or a photography assignment and just as often there’s a bit of a word game or haiku writing assignment too. If you wish you can post to a community Flickr site and it’s fun to see what other people come up with. I’m trying to keep this as it was advertised – a SHORT daily exercise and mostly I’ve been able to keep up with it and get my stuff posted as a way to keep me honest about it.

I’d not used flickr before but iPhoto can share to it which makes it very easy to upload photos. I have to say the generic Flickr (the one on top) avatar made me laugh when I saw it, so i had to make this photo, already in my iPhoto library as my own Flickr avatar (the one on bottom):

My Flickr Avatar

This was the funnest photo exercise to date: hold a camera at arms’ length, pointed at you, and shoot photos of yourself while spinning on a spot (do this in a public spot). I wasn’t in any public places but the results in my sewing room were great!

3.16h frezon

That one was good enough to use as a new profile photo on facebook lol. One of my other ones picked up a young bill cosby on TV because I Spy was on – very bizarre all in all.

So I don’t know if I’m any sillier after a few weeks of this, but it is a bit of fun every day.

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Awwwww

I loved this, the photos of a new mom while her infant naps.

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