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Creative Blooms 14: On Animal Rhetoric (Reconnecting)

From Animal Presences, by James Hillman, “A Correspondence with John Stockwell” John Stockwell: In several of your books you have characterized the turn to the East, the return to the land, the return to the primitive, and the turn to animals as wrongly chosen directions. You say that these ways fail to recognize that which…

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Book of the Week: Clouds and More Clouds

David is a professional psychologist, and brings his interest in depth psychology to the study and writing of haiku, claiming that it can be a healing practice.

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Season by Season — Episode 5

Join Alexis and Kit in exploring the haiku seasons . . .

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This Week in Haikupedia — August 9, 2020

See what’s new in Haikupedia this week . . .

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Still Time to Submit to the August 2020 THF Monthly Kukai

You can still participate in the THF Monthly Kukai . . .

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