Apparently, bananas aren't comment inspiring.
This past Sunday, Chris and I went to Ukiah's own UKIAHAIKU Festival. If you didn't notice yet, Ukiah is Haiku spelled backwards. I happened to get the Honorable Mention at the festival and as my reward, I had to read my haiku in front of a relatively large audience. My haiku was recognized in the catagory "Haikus about Ukiah". Funny, that a new resident of the city should win in that category. Well... I was trying to lay low (and only really attended so I could nab a couple of copies of the book) but a few teachers from my school just happened to be there.
Well, word got out... and now I need to read to my haiku to 400 some-odd students at my school. The fun part of all of this is that I made the front page of the UkiahDailyJournal. They even printed my poem. It was pretty natsukashi for me! It reminded me of my days of undeserved recognition in Yamagata. I just like the idea that I've been here less than a year and I'm on the front page-- yeah me! (Chris thought HIS last post was self-indulgent)
The interesting thing about haiku is that they are supposed to capture a season's essence... and my poem has no season! Thang wrote in his blog about confused sakura in Kajo Park, and I feel like there are flowers across the world nodding their head in agreement. How is one supposed to write a haiku that evokes a season when the seasons have been so undefined this year? My calalillies popped up out of the ground in February and were showing their faces by the end of the month. Then suddenly, temperatures dropped again and left the poor things defenseless to the cold. Now, they are experiencing a second-wind (although more of a breeze than a gale)... but I can just imagine them calling out for a leader to show them what to do next, "Is it time yet?" "What should I do now" "Wait, didn't we already do this?" "Are you sure this time?"
I feel just like those flowers. This last weekend, it was 92-degrees and today it didn't get above 60 (with rain to boot)!
What's a girl to wear?
4/30/07
4/27/07
Let's free the banana!
Here it is... my first blog. My husband spends his time on the internet reading profound (and confounding) poetry, or looking at various environmental or religious articles. He, therefore, has something of substance to write about in his new blog. My friend, Thang, spends his time reading political ( and painstakingly depressing) works of non-fiction, and also has something newsworthy to write about. I, on the other hand, spend my time reading novels about women in far off lands or times, and surfing the internet for news I don't really have much invested in, or visiting my other friends blogs (and occasionaly reading my husbands instead of talking to him when he is in the same room). My latest internet scavenger hunt took me to the JapanToday.com website where I like to read the PopVox or New Products pages. It is there that I saw one of the greatest inventions I have ever set eyes upon. Really! I don't know how I am living without one of these.
http://www.sanrio.co.jp/products/200704/banana/welcome.html
It is the "Hello Kitty Banana Case"! I mean, how can you leave home without one? This clever little case says it holds a small, to medium size banana for people on the go. Now, before I inspected the picture more closely, I thought, "that might be handy, bananas always get so bruised in my bag, a hard protective case for them would be a smart idea!" That thought was followed by a sincere interest in knowing how the exact curviture of the banana could be approximated in a case. It couldn't exactly be a "one size fits all" situtaion. It was then as I looked at the picture that I realized it was just a little foam wrapper with a keitai loop attached. I all of a sudden pictured genki high school girls across the country carrying around a banana as one of their many cell-phone attachments. This foam banana condom can do no more to protect or preserve my easily bruised banana than if I threw it in the bottom of my purse all on its own. Which makes one wonder, how many people carry bananas with them? I've been known to...but the deeper I dive into pursuing this strange invention, the stranger I realize my writing is sounding. Innuendos aside, do bananas really need to be covered up?
Leave it to the Japanese.
http://www.sanrio.co.jp/products/200704/banana/welcome.html
It is the "Hello Kitty Banana Case"! I mean, how can you leave home without one? This clever little case says it holds a small, to medium size banana for people on the go. Now, before I inspected the picture more closely, I thought, "that might be handy, bananas always get so bruised in my bag, a hard protective case for them would be a smart idea!" That thought was followed by a sincere interest in knowing how the exact curviture of the banana could be approximated in a case. It couldn't exactly be a "one size fits all" situtaion. It was then as I looked at the picture that I realized it was just a little foam wrapper with a keitai loop attached. I all of a sudden pictured genki high school girls across the country carrying around a banana as one of their many cell-phone attachments. This foam banana condom can do no more to protect or preserve my easily bruised banana than if I threw it in the bottom of my purse all on its own. Which makes one wonder, how many people carry bananas with them? I've been known to...but the deeper I dive into pursuing this strange invention, the stranger I realize my writing is sounding. Innuendos aside, do bananas really need to be covered up?
Leave it to the Japanese.
4/26/07
I won't lie.
I won't lie... I am creating this blog just because everyone else I know has one. I figured, if they can think of things to write about, I must have something interesting to say, too. We'll see if that idea holds up. My ultimate goal is to get more people reading my blog than Thang, Moti, Jamie, and Rachel's blogs combined. Wish me good luck!
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