Haiku Tour Guide

RantWoman is happily home from the ninth Pacific Northwest Quaker Women's Theology conference. RantWoman and the Queen of Spades are getting reacquainted. Rantwoman has emptied her luggage into the laundry and started in on various threads of reflections. RantWoman is starting with some moments mostly from a short spell of pre-conference tourism up the Columbia Gorge visitng waterfalls and scenic lookouts such as Vista House.

RantWoman promised some members of her public some haiku from RantWoman's text message haiku habit. RantWoman offers the following items, in a number of cases cleaned up compared to the typo-riddled lines originally emitted into the Twitterverse.

Rantwoman is holding a thought from Nancy Thomas: gratitude is a lifestyle choice. RantWoman hopes these small, occasionally annotated, snapshots speak to her readers.



#haiku   Summer invasion:
The allergies they are here
God bless the pollen!


#haiku   Another blessing?
Another goshdang blessing!
Just white cane travel!



RantWoman  emitted this item before going to Marge A's workshop about prophetic witness. RantWoman is pleased to hear that Friend Marge is working on making prophetic witness the theme of her next book. RantWoman plans to put herself in the way of further opportunities to reflect out loud as the book takes shape.

#haiku  Quakers twittering
Warning: prophetic witness
Comes all kinds of ways.

#haiku Columbia gorge

vacation from digital

except for texting

#haiku  Birds riding thermals
Birdwatching: an act of faith
What birds? What thermals?

#haiku Reprinted postcards
so hopelessly analog
bringing home the Gorge


#haiku From on top of the bridge
the midlife vision meltdown
can't clobber the falls


The next day; RantWoman was having trouble with the directions
#haiku Not still, waterfalls!
Meditation exercise
with a lawnmower