Random Noodling: Happy Haiga Day!

April 17, 2016

Today is International Haiku Poetry Day! And, at The Haiku Foundation you can take part in the EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2016 which is going on right now! It is a worldwide celebration of "Foodcrop" haiku. I posted the haiku from this haiga as part of the Collaboration.

Interesting Idea

I don’t use the term as an insult — the American idiot. I mean it in a precise way, as I try to remind people. For the Greeks, "idiot" carried a precise and special meaning. The person who was only interested in private life, private gain, private advantage. Who had no conception of a public good, common wealth, shared interest. To the Greeks, the pioneers of democracy, the creators of the demos, such a person was the most contemptible of all. Because even the Greeks seemed to understand: you can’t make a functioning democracy out of...idiots.

~ umair haque

Featuring cherita!

April 17, 2016

Happy Haiga Day!

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