Most Recent Haiku - only a few

2020.10.25:

she stares up at me.
i wish i knew what she wants;
i never learned cat. 

#猫 #domesticshorthair


2020.11.27:

tonight I will smile.
not too much happened today;
'twas a lazy day.

#lazy #微笑み

2021.01.26:

Walk in Valley Forge;
fine rain permeates the air,
misting my glasses.

#散歩 #眼鏡＃glasses #walk

2021.07.05:

In Rye, New Hampshire
breezy cool day in July.
blue sky over sea.

#海辺 #青空 #RyeNH #beach


2021.07.29:

Friday 2 AM:
the truck empties the dumpster
right by my window.

＃深夜　#ゴミ収集 #Dumpster #ゴミ箱 #lemme_sleep


2022.01.14:

hard snow on edges
of paths and roads and gardens;
a pleasing crunch crunch. 

＃雪　#冬 #snow #winter

2022.07.23:

Had Chinese tonight,
but my cookie was empty. 
Sooo disappointed!

＃中華料理　#笑語餅 #fortunecookie

I took the photo last summer at Rye, NH. 
俳句 = "haiku"

Four recent FB mini-concerts.

February - WSOP

March - O Darling

April - I Miss....

   

May - Aquellos Ojos Verdes

一年間の俳句 Haiku from the past year (cat, garden and voting)

2019.12.07:

it's true: my cat snores.
i sit here writing sermon,
she sleeps peacefully. 

2019.12.20:

For special events
my favorite outfit is my
black formal hoodie. 

2020.06.26:

sudden raindrops bring
the dusty smell of ozone;
feet root in garden. 

2020.10.07

Looking at Jeoffry;
not yet old enough to vote,
she turned seventeen.

2020.10.12:

I voted today
in the library car park;
hope it gets counted. 

2020.10.15:

standing on my butt
at 5 AM; what's the deal?
her food bowl's empty! 

最近の俳句 Recent Haiku (2018-2019) - Teal or Turquoise

2018.08.29:

Baseball game tonight
Phils hosted the Nationals
Left before the end


2018.12.08:

Really want to sleep
but don't want to go to bed. 
What's that all about? 


2019.07.02:

Just the right angle
sinking sun's light shining through
emerald green grass. 


2019.08.05:

Humpty Dumpty's fall:
Read the text! It does not say
that he was an egg.


2019.08.11:

a true suicide? 
lots of rich and famous men
breathe sighs of relief. 


2019.08.20:

help me remember:
what was in my left pocket
before my smart phone?


2019.10.16:

am i colorblind? 
i can’t tell the difference
'tween teal and turquoise

Not many haiku in two years 俳句: 玉子だった? 本当?

2017.08.15:

how can his staffers
stand and silently condone
what comes from his mouth?

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #charlottesville #川普

2017.08.15:

what kind of mind sees
moral equivalency
in saturday’s groups?

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #charlottesville #川普

2017.08.30:

the innocent man:
“investigate all you want!”
not so the guilty.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句  #russia #川普

2017.11.07:

Off-year elections
don’t pull as many voters
but still important.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #GetOutTheVote

2017.12.02:

What happened last night?
Will they name the new tax law
“Reverse Robin Hood?”

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #SherwoodForest #税金 ＃共和党 ＃国会

2018.03.20:

Most my clothes are black.
Every place I go I bring
Evidence of cat.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #cat #猫 ＃black


2018.08.29:

Baseball game tonight
Phils hosted the Nationals
Left before the end

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #Phillies #野球

2018.12.08:

Really want to sleep
but don't want to go to bed.
What's that all about?

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #Uptoolate #睡眠不足


2019.07.02:

Just the right angle
sinking sun's light shining through
emerald green grass.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #sunset ＃草

2019.08.05:

Humpty Dumpty's fall:
Read the text! It does not say
that he was an egg.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 ＃卵 ＃玉子 #egg #Wall

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Rocks of Bawn at Bill and Ella Denny's St. Patrick's Day party

Bill and Ella Denny threw a party on the Holy Day. Many participated and had a wonderful time. Bill asked me to sing. Thanks to April Denny for recording this. Spoiler alert: this is a very sad song.

2018 Augustinian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

Click HERE to see photos of our Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

Friars sitting in cave near the spot where Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount

Haiku in a Time of Transition 変更期の俳句

2016.12.06:

One more Sci-Fi film.

Perhaps I’ve had my fill of

too much CGI.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #haikuoftheday #SciFi #SF #CGI #映画 #toomuchcgi #DrStrange

2016.12.08:

He picks one by one:

New team seems like a case of

Wolves guarding hen house.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #haikuoftheday  #henhouse #wolves #鶏小屋 #狼

2016.12.08:

Sometimes the beauty

is so intense and so fierce

I must shed a tear.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #haikuoftheday #beauty #intense #涙 #美

2016.12.10:

CIA reports:

Russian Hackers aided Trump.

Whom can we trust now? 

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #haikuoftheday #信頼 #CIA #trust #hackers

2017.01.22:

Now we’re three days in.

How did you think it would go?

Brace yourselves, people!

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #chaos #potus #hope

2017.01.27:

it has been a week.

how do you feel about all

that's been going on? 

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #chaos @potus #hope

2017.01.29:

this is so much worse

than i thought it might become

and much much faster

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #chaos @potus #NoWallNoBan

2017.02.04:

sun, sand, sky and sea;

such a pleasant afternoon

at Po’ipu Beach

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #Poipu #ポイプ #selfie ＃浜辺

2017.02.06:

fog, mud and cold air

dampened Waimea Canyon;

i turned back early.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #WaimeaCanyon #Kauai #渓谷

2017.02.13:

I’ll not soon forget

that tiled floor rushing so fast

up toward my face.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #2010 #Kauai #床 ＃顔

2017.02.18:

All the winged monkeys

working together to run

a well-tuned machine.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句  #EmeraldCity

2017.02.24:

rampant crocuses

along the roadside basking;

still february

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句  #roadside ＃道端 ＃クロカス ＃crocus

2017.03.04:

new crisis daily:

starting to feel the fatigue

trying to keep track.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句  #wiretap

2017.03.11:

花と見し 雪は昨日ぞ 元の水

　　　　　　　　　　吾山

Seemed like falling blossoms, yesterday's snow, now gone back to water. 

　　　　　　　　　　Gozan　　　　　　　　　　[Gozan’s haiku; my translation]

#haiku #俳句 #今日の一句 #snow ＃雪 #requiem

2017.03.23:

when i was a kid

we hid under our school desks

fearing the russians

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句  #Russia #ColdWar ＃ルシア #冷戦 #Manafort #Putin

2017.03.25:

it’s incoherent

how he prattles on and on;

forgets his own lies.

some should be serving

time behind bars of iron:

for cheating the poor.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #AHCAFAIL  #Obamacare

2017.03.28:

without my glasses

i’m groping trying to find

where my glasses are

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #glasses #メガネ ＃眼鏡  #οὐροβόρος  #ouroboros

2017.04.07:

everywhere i go

paper seems to multiply

miles high and miles deep

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #haikuoftheday #paper #紙

2017.05.09:

you think we’re in a

constitutional crisis?

may God save us all!

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #haikuoftheday #Comey #FBI





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最近の俳句 Recent Haiku (with #hashtags)

2016.11.01:

ID said “N.C.”

A swing state in November.

Answered in Spanish.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #haikuoftheday #NorthCarolina #GetOutandVote

2016.11.09:

Dear Rest of the World:

Sorry! We will do our best

not to mess things up.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #haikuoftheday #thedayafter

2016.11.09:

To Alec Baldwin:

Congrats! Job security

for the next four years!

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #haikuoftheday #thedayafter

2016.11.15:

 

I am really shocked

and I can't find my olives

where the hell are they? 

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #haikuoftheday #olive ＃地獄

2016.11.17:

The fear and anger

I perceive all around me:

only in Bryn Mawr?

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #haikuoftheday #anger ＃fear #怒り #恐れ

2016.11.19:

Humans: we hurtle

in pods of steel, glass, plastic

on concrete ribbons.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #haikuoftheday #cars ＃自動車 #concrete #高速道路

2016.11.24:

Nothing quite like it:

Monday’s martini Thursday

with threads of lime rind.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #haikuoftheday #Thanksgiving ＃ライム #飲み物

2016.11.25:

She won’t let me sleep

So I’m massaging her neck

as she lies purring.

#cat ＃猫 #haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #haikuoftheday #purring

2016.11.26:

I said to Jeoffry:

“What if we were to roast cats

instead of turkeys?”

#justkidding #cat ＃猫 #haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #haikuoftheday  #Thanksgiving

2016.11.27:

I love pecan pie.

But there’s much too much sugar.

Just gotta say no.

#pecanpie #haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #haikuoftheday #砂糖

2016.11.27:

Mitt Romney for State?

I think he’d do a good job.

But can Trump forget?

#Trump #Romney #haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #haikuoftheday #トランプ #ミットロムニー

2016.11.28:

It’s such a nice thing:

thanks for an ancient kindness

long lost from mem’ry.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #haikuoftheday #感謝 ＃早期発症型認知症

2016.12.04:

He’s making it up

as he goes along, it seems.

It’s not a good sign.

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #haikuoftheday #不合理 ＃Creativity #創造性

2016.12.05:

On my daily walk

today my hands shout loudly:

“From now on with gloves!!!”

#haiku #俳句 #今日の俳句 #今日の一句 #haikuoftheday #散歩 #gloves  #手袋

2016.12.05:

From this point in time

I’ll ne’er be this age again.

And that’s a good thing!

#haiku #俳句  #今日の俳句  #今日の一句 #haikuoftheday  #人生  ＃life  #時間 #tempusfugit

Homily for the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus, King of the Universe

Today is the feast of Christ the King.

In the year 2016, there are some countries that still have kings. 

Our nation is not one of them.

Here in the United States we have a president.

In fact right now, one might say we have two presidents.

One president who is finishing out his second term, and we have a president-elect. A man elected 11 days ago.

He is now gathering together his governing team and will take office two months from today.

This most recent election dramatically reveals the deep divide that exists in our nation. In the past 10 days many Americans have been jubilant and elated – happily looking forward to the start of the new president’s term. And many other Americans have been fearful and angry – worried that even before the start of the next term that the mood of the nation has darkened, and that those on the margins of society have already begun to feel a change.

At the same time, many Americans are trying to take a “wait and see” attitude and to hope for the best.

We Catholic Americans are kind of unique in that we have both president and king.

We Catholic Americans have a president. 

Whether we voted for him or not, whether we like him or not, whether we agree with him or not, a duly elected president deserves our respect, cooperation and support.
At the same time, we must be vigilant and hold any president responsible for ensuring the protection the most vulnerable members of our society – whether these be the poor, the unborn, victims of human trafficking, racial, ethnic or other minorities who are being made to suffer. 

We Catholic Americans also have a king. 

His name is Jesus Christ. 

Every king has a throne. 

Our King has had 3 and he seeks a 4^th. 

1.     The first throne was the manger where he was born in Bethlehem.

2.     The second throne that Jesus had was the cross.

3.     His third throne is the throne in heaven where He is seated at the right hand of the Father.

In some future homily I will talk about those three thrones and why they are important,

But for now, let me talk about one last throne – that 4^th one.

Whether you know it or not, you have the throne in your heart. Whatever sits on that throne governs your life.

Ask yourself: What sits on the throne in your heart?

o    Is it the desire for money?   or things?

o    Is it alcohol? Is it drugs? Is it sex? Is it yourself? Is it your work?

o    Is it a relationship with someone that you know in your heart is sinful?

o    It is possible for any of these things to be sitting on the throne of your heart.

And if one of these things is sitting on the throne,
it is governing your life; it is directing your life, and NOT the Lord.

The thing that you and I need to do is to look into our own hearts and to see who or what is sitting on the throne there. If we see ourselves sitting there, or if we see any one of the things I just mentioned sitting there, we.need.to.repent. We need to remove those other things from that throne. And then we need to turn to Jesus.

We need to open up our hearts to Jesus.

We need to invite Him to come into our hearts.

We need to invite Him to sit on the throne in our hearts.

We need to invite Him to be our king.

We need to invite Him to rule our hearts, to rule our lives,
with His love, with His peace, with His reconciliation, with His forgiveness.

When we invite him to take his throne as King in our hearts and our lives, it will affect how we act as Catholic citizens of our great nation. 

One more, related thing:

Archbishop Chaput 4 days ago wrote and posted a very helpful article about our nation since the presidential election in CatholicPhilly.com entitled:
“The Right Place to Start ”

Here is a link to the column. I highly recommend it. 

Finally, as we receive Our Lord Jesus in the Eucharist today,

let us invite Him to be the King of our hearts and our lives.

so that we can help the Gospel values of Justice, Mercy and Compassion to prevail in our nation.