New years haiku from — and inspired by — lawyer-blogger
David Giacalone has a blog entitled “f/k/a . . . one-breath poetry & punditry with haikuEsq f/k/a ethicalEsq”
Its engaging story and purpose are explained here and here. David describes himself as “a prematurely-retired (but no longer prematurely-gray) attorney and mediator, living in the Capital Region of New York State [whose] . . . discovery of haiku late in life has brought . . . a lot of joy.”
David recently honored a list of his fellow lawyer-bloggers with individual haikus for online holiday gifts, myself included. Read on for his haiku for me, and my feeble haiku response.
David says: “for George at the Employment Weblog:
‘starting the New Year’s luck
first stoke
of the fire’
Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue” (Not sure if and how this applies specifically to me; a mystery to ponder, I suppose.)
I say in response, perhaps starting to stoke the fire for a new year of blogging:
blogging away years
feels free and inspiring
law alone is cold
Happy New Year to David and all our readers!
This is David Giacalone, a/k/a Prof. Yabut. George, thank you for your kind wishes and for spotlighting the humble weblog f/k/a (in pithy haiku fashion, I made the title of the weblog short; then in lawyer fashion, I stuffed as much information as possible in the tag line).
I thought of you for this haiku, because stoking a fire is work (employment) — but it’s work that brings energy, sparks, warmth, along with the necessity of constant vigilance. I believe, as I’m sure you do, that luck is most likely to arrive after expending considerable exertion.
I share the sentiments in your inspired verse, too. But, I also have to learn to keep weblogging from becoming cold work.