"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something." 
Neil Gaiman

Abandon this fleeting world, abandon yourself,
Then the moon and flowers will guide you along the Way.
- Ryokan

Haiku - Boncho

Snow swallowed valley:
The river alone painted
A black, winding line.

Family asleep,
wind howling around the house,
gifts wait patiently.

Shades of the NW,
gray, silver, green, brown dampness,
visits the NE.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
- Claude Monet

Traveling through dreams,
through year's longest evening,
grateful light returns.

Today's tanka

Like the sunflower

May my face turn in delight

Towards the sunlight.

Today the clouds obscure you,

Maybe tomorrow it clears.

Lucky harbingers -
chickadee out my window,
woodpecker swooping.