boxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 3 days agolighting the wayThe other day, while waiting in line to buy steamed sugar bread at a local festival, I watched a daughter and mother standing in front of me. The daughter was so eager to sharboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 10 days agothe river sparklesI used to think that I needed time to be creative. In fact, I think that’s a fairly common misconception about creativity. But since having three children, working six dayboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 24 days agothe wind whispersHow to describe that feeling you get when … You know the moments I’m talking about, when something just strikes you as beautiful in some otherworldly way and you want to tellboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • last monthhaunting the horizonConsistency. What does it mean to you? Does it mean performing consistently at a certain level, or does it mean consistently producing a specific quantity, without worryingboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • last monththe man in the fountainDriving to work, at strategic intersections, or maybe just randomly chosen corners, the latest political candidates have been speaking into megaphones, sharing their campaignboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 2 months agoa freer timeThe win this week goes to my eldest for writing a letter to his mom on Mother’s Day and wishing her a happy birthday instead of a Happy Mother’s Day. Oops. At least he perboxcarblue rebloggedpaolobeneforti in #hive-158694 • 3 months agoA short illustrated story: "Literary worlds"I'm working on a a large number of illustrated tales. I have the plots and, for some of them, the text. Right now I have a folder with around 250 short stories: some of them will…boxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 3 months agothe first day of springCreative cycles, they come and go. And when you find yourself on the outside of one, you can wait for the next one to come around, or you can push yourself to just make sometboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 4 months agostillness in motionWalking along the edge of a small Japanese town sandwiched between the sea and a quick-rising mountain ridge, I came upon a temple complex with this written at its entrance.boxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 4 months agocracking the surfaceAfter a slight thaw, temperatures dropped this past week, making March colder than January and February. On my morning trip to the garbage bins, the asphalt crunched under myboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 4 months agofrom the train I seeRiding the train into Tokyo, through various forms of residential districts and urban hubs, I always find myself amazed by the number of people living in such a tight space.boxcarblue rebloggedagreste in #hive-163772 • 5 months agoSilence and dreams. Trip to Ingeniero Moneta | El silencio y los sueños. Viaje a Ingeniero Moneta [ENG-SPA]Dreams grow old, like all things. They flake off, they crumble, wild plants grow in their crevices. Buenos Aires is full of forgotten dreams. Lost between the fertile countryside…boxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 6 months agothe color of sunlightYesterday, with my one year old son strapped to my back, I walked to the supermarket in search of limes. It was cold out, and the soft flurries of snow entertained my son byboxcarblue rebloggedsamstonehill in #hive-155221 • 6 months agoProving water has consciousness (by asking questions & freezing small amounts in the bottom of a glass)The experiments of Masaru Emoto have been criticised over the years for being "too selective" about which ice crystal images he chose to represent theboxcarblue rebloggednickydee in #c-c-c • 7 months agoOn We GoI'm trying to writeboxcarblue rebloggedhadrianwild in #hive-150329 • 7 months agoWildlife Art In GrungeLynx Hunting Hare - the grain pattern of this worn wood reminded me of northern conifer forest in winter where a hungry lynx might hunt for hares ![](boxcarblue rebloggeddbooster in #hive-158302 • 7 months agoAmidakuji for November 2023・2023年11月の阿弥陀くじ 【Eng/JPN】 It’s time for our Amidakuji lottery! Are you ready? 阿弥陀くじの時間です!準備はできましたか? Before we do the new lboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 8 months agooh, how I’ve learnedContinuing on my reflections from last week about art and poetry, and more specifically, what haiku should be, I found great comfort in these descriptions by Sam Hamill in hiboxcarblue in #hive-161465 • 8 months agoin the library, a bookWhile I ran into a café this week to submit two pen and ink typographic drawings to the curator of a small calligraphy show, my wife parked our car at a nearby library and waiboxcarblue rebloggeddbooster in #hive-161465 • 8 months agoDo Haiku Need to be Three Lines? How About One, Four, or Many More?A while ago I covered how many syllables a haiku should be. [Read that here][17 syllables]. Today I want to look at how many lines a haiku should be. 3? 5? 42? Curious? This…