Wilderness Interface Zone » dishwashing as meditation http://wilderness.motleyvision.org Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:00:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Snow day and dishwashing haiku http://wilderness.motleyvision.org/2010/snow-day-and-dishwashing-haiku/ http://wilderness.motleyvision.org/2010/snow-day-and-dishwashing-haiku/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:00:25 +0000 Patricia http://wilderness.motleyvision.org/?p=1813 Just as the deep snow here had melted to half-gone and I’d broken usable trails through the month-old snowpack remaining, a new storm blew in, dropped another five or six inches, and undid my hope for a winter thaw.  Two more storms over the next three days are expected to fluff things up even more.  While I work up the energy to go out and re-break trails—for myself and for animals, on whom this unnaturally long winter has been very stressful—I thought I’d try something different at WIZ to pass time.

Traditionally, haiku express insight into the movement of a season across the face of a landscape.  But since the form is of a meditative mind, its nature can be stretched to explore particulars of a variety of conditions.  In a recent conversation with greenfrog, topics of awareness and dishwashing flowed together.  The prospect of dishwashing haiku arose.  Well … and why not?

So for WIZ’s next winter while-away open invitation, the name is dishwashing (which I happen to find especially pleasant in wintertime); the game is haiku.

To begin:

Warm tap water, cool
Winter light pouring in streak
Plates in kitchen sync.

Let the One-liners begin.

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