#ROMANIA SABAKI CHALLENGE PLUS#
Darie and Roger are in an RV lifestyle, and I spent a week with them in a beautiful RV park, plus had the opportunity to briefly visit with my niece and nephew, Betsy and John. I'm happy to report that everyone is doing well.Īlso, last June I enjoyed a visit in the Texas Hill Country with my sister and her husband. My children and grandchildren bless my life in many ways, and I'm very grateful. In the fall, he's heading for Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. Will graduates from Wesleyan this year, with a degree in computer science and math, and Alex graduates from Westtown Friends School. I'm also in frequent touch with my son Charlie and his wife Ellen, and with Bill's daughter Beth and her family (husband Branin, Will, 22, and Alex,17). Conor is reading chapter books, playing soccer and basketball, and enjoying his first year in Cub Scouts. Courtney is a fine goalie on a traveling soccer team, and a talented singer and dancer.
I love being part of my grandkids' lives-they are growing up so fast. Of course I miss Bill, but being close to my daughter and son-in-law, Nancy and John, and family (Courtney 10, Conor, 7) really helps.
I continue to enjoy living here in the South Jersey shore area. Tonight, stars blaze in the clear depths of the sky. Now, as we approach the Winter Solstice, an Arctic chill is with us. Although much of the rest of the country (and Europe) has already experienced snow and cold, here in southeast New Jersey it was unseasonably warm for much of November. I hope you are happy, well, and enjoying this holiday season. I also manage to twitter one haiku per day since November, 2010! (Twitter handle name: faysftsuyaku).My high-tech client laughed when I told him I 'copy' haiku I twittered in Facebook for my non-twitter friends! Fay Aoyagi New Year! I was surprised to see more than 130 hits in my blog where I upload one translated haiku by Japanese contemporary haiku poets per day( ) on New Year's Day (still early here in rainy SF!). Read the complete news release here or by copying and pasting the following URL into your web browser’s address bar: Images of the winners and their books can be downloaded from the Canada Council image gallery. The French-language winning work is D’âmes et d’ailes / of souls and wings, a collection of tanka in French and English by Janick Belleau of Longueuil, Que. The English-language winning work is Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC’s Japanese Canadian Fishermen, a 130 year history written by Masako Fukawa with Stanley Fukawa, of Burnaby, B.C. Ottawa, Octo– The Canada Council for the Arts announced today the winners of the 2010 Canada-Japan Literary Awards. Masako Fukawa, Stanley Fukawa and Janick Belleau Tomorrow is training where I will be under the hand of MY blond therapist. A little later it is bath time for me, which is more complicated than the simple word "bath.” I have to go from wheel chair to bath chair, so on. My wife- bless her - is in the kitchen making supper preparation sounds. I have only given it a quick look-see, will get to it in detail before much longer. As I was working got to thinking, "Isn't it about time.” I tapped up, first, the last issue of LYNX, to see the old number then tapped up the current issue. I am also entering CUPID'S ARROWS ARE COFFIN NAILS as it appeared in LYNX.
I hope this is OK, and I acknowledge their first appearances in LYNX. There have been a few changes, not many, a word here and there. The seasonal tanka that appeared in four separate issues of Lynx I have entered as SEASONAL NOTES, each season with its own page. I have been busy, trying to trim up a pamphlet competition entry that will, of course, win me fame and fortune. It is 9c today, rain falling out of a grey sky, evening is coming on. (7 July 1932-24 October 2010) Sasa VazicĪre you back in the northern woods? I hope the autumn days are sunny, and the night fires warm. is with great regret that I have to inform you that the great Serbian poet, Slavko Sedlar, passed away. The writers and publishers of the top 3 poems are eligible for over $2,000 in prizes. ( Note that this year-long contest was advertised in Poets & Writers) All The Best, Darrell Lindsey This is to let you know that my " our blue bag" tanka is currently in the Prize Round ofThe Poetry Ark Prize project at, and AHA Books is credited as publisher.