The Wee Peeple Newsletter
January 2019 Issue 143
Every masterpiece is a flower on a precipice...
Beyond the
village a poor farmer
watches the moon.
-Basho |
Haiku- an invitation to paint with words in short quick strokes..
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..a challenge to briefly convey not so much -information- as a feeling for the essence of This Moment.
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To compose a Haiku is to penetrate deeply into the Here and Now... and say as much with Omission as with Inclusion...
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...attuned to the simplest things life has to offer...
Observing Nature becomes a Spiritual Path...
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The basic form is three lines, seventeen syllables however, strict syllabic structure is often sacrificed (even by- especially by- Haiku Masters such as Basho) in unlocking the Heart of the Experience... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "When a feeling reaches it's highest pitch, we remain silent and even 17 syllables may be too many."
-D. T. Suzuki
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A good You Tube video on the Haiku Master, Basho:
Hana no yo no Hana no yoh naru Hito bakari
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Translation: All beings are blossoms blossoming in a blossoming universe.
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The Flamenco Influence
On another day in
in her email, the Dollmaker found a request for a
Flamenco Doll.
Ah, the Passion of Flamenco..
the flash of castanets, the flouncing dresses, lacy fans, spinning shawls...
the whirling and the posing and the arching- the flying fabrics...
she just needed a "way in" - a style that could work with all that flounciness-
The Long Curl Style arose from the Flamenco Influence but
it also worked well for
Spirit Dolls
The special order Spirit Dolls of January
And the Spirit Doll (Flamenco) Style will also work for the
Valley of the Vapors Dolls
{for the 2019 Woman's Conference (in Hot Springs, Arkansas this year) in February}
...the Dollmaker's new shipping boxes arrived just in time!
Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree
and about a bamboo stalk from a bamboo stalk.
-Basho
~Doll Shoppe News~
That huge Pine Tree at the back of the Wee Peeple Garden at the Texas Renaissance Festival which was destroying the Dollmaker's sidewalk making it unsafe (and often actually impossible) for wagons, wheelchairs, and scooters to pass through the garden is history now. The enormous roots were also raising the back end of the foundation and a ramp had to be built Inside the Shoppe so that people wouldn't trip!
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2018 |
2015 |
In 2012 the sidewalk buckled upwards and had to be repaired
2017 |
January 2019
The new TRF Site Manager ordered the tree to be cut down this month. The Dollmaker had to go up there to see it for herself. The stump is scheduled to be ground in two weeks, and the original level of the garden pathway restored. |
AND
the Century Plant Stalk, first noticed in the Spring of 2016
finally fell over in the winter of 2019...
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towering giant, broken now there is too much sky
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Oh leaves, ask the wind which of you Will be the first to fall.
- Soseki
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Cherry
blossoms whirl, leaves fall,
and the wind flits them both along
the ground.
We cannot arrest with
our eyes or ears what lies in such things.
Were we to gain mastery over them,
we would find that the life of each thing
had vanished without a trace.
Matsuo Bashó
{Haiku Master} (1644-1694)
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