Vicki Hudson

Signed up to join some old rugby teamies for the NorCal Tough Mudder in September. A grueling test of physical, mental, and emotional fitness. Why? Because it looks like fun, because I get to play with teammates again, because I can use a good challenge and because it supports the Wounded Warrior Project. And you are invited to support the Wounded Warrior Project also by donating on my behalf. Click here.

Sniff, sniff, is that poo?

Who? The dog or the baby?

Don’t think it matters.

Movement suspended/

Birdbath prison leaves and seeds/

Time waits rising warmth

Gogyohka (pronounced in four syllables with all hard g’s, as in “good”) literally translates as “five-line verse”. It is an evolution of the great Japanese tradition of short verse, but unlike its predecessors Haiku and Tanka, it has no fixed syllable pattern. There are also no conventions governing content and no assumptions about what is considered to be appropriately “poetic” language. Indeed Gogyohka’s accessibility and its power to speak directly to the heart and mind stem from the simplicity of its form, its frequent use of the everyday vernacular and the unwritten rule that almost any subject matter is game.

– from Gogyohka Junction

Feeding, flits away

Follow dropping morsels in

Toddler dinner time

Technology sucks –

Pulling blinders upon us

The seasons pass by