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Seasonal Living With Haiku · Divas That Care Network

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  SPEAKER_02: Well, hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Divas That Care.
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  SPEAKER_02: My name is Candice Gish.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right, guys, I am going to be introducing you to an amazing lady here, a fellow Canadian, and her name is Anne Dunnett.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I am so excited to be talking with her today.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's going to be talking with us about some really cool things here, actually a Japanese haiku, and I'm so excited to be learning more about this.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know, I had the opportunity to learn a little bit about it, but Like you, you're probably confused, and so was I.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I'm excited about this.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so welcome to my show on The Divas That Care.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for having me, first of all.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm just really excited to be here this morning and, yes, to share with you a little bit about haiku and seasonal living and to help people to learn how to be in the moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's really what haiku is all about.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh, we're so excited.
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  SPEAKER_02: So Anne, would you mind introducing yourself to our listeners today?
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  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: So yes, my name is Anne Dennett.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am based on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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  SPEAKER_01: and I have been writing haiku poetry for almost 20 years now and I was first introduced to haiku as a child.
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  SPEAKER_01: A lot of people that I meet have learned a little bit about haiku and they possibly had their school assignment as an introduction to haiku and I'll dive a little bit deeper into that but that was my first introduction to haiku and my grandmother wrote haiku poetry and I was able to call that her for some inspiration and some help with my school assignment and then I never touched haiku again for years and I became a graphic designer.
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  SPEAKER_01: I went to art school and A couple of years after art school, I was finding that I wasn't super inspired by it, and I wanted to do something that was a little bit more meaningful and soulful and purposeful, and I started doing craft fairs and diving into more of mindfulness and meditation and yoga and things like that, and then eventually started writing more and learning more about haiku poetry.
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  SPEAKER_01: I
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  SPEAKER_02: love that.
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  SPEAKER_02: And why is this not an art...
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  SPEAKER_02: I would call it, that a lot of people know about?
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  SPEAKER_02: That
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  SPEAKER_01: is a very good question.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have noticed, I think part of it is because it's confusing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think, so back in elementary school, the way they were teaching it in elementary school was a 575 syllable count, that it was this format that was very rigid and not very fluid.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I also think that haiku is a little...
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  SPEAKER_01: It's poetry.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a little bit dry.
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  SPEAKER_01: People might think it's really boring.
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  SPEAKER_01: And...
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  SPEAKER_01: there's also haiku communities.
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  SPEAKER_01: It seems like there's this very large haiku community in different countries, but they all seem to just stick to themselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what I'm trying to do is to get haiku out into more of the general public.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is why I'm doing more of these podcasts and then wanting to inspire people about haiku and not have the focus specifically really about the actual poetry, but but around the philosophies of what it represents more as a slow living, seasonal living lifestyle.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as to why it's not really out there that much, I don't really have an answer for that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But my purpose is to try to change that.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, anything about change and making the world a better place, you know I'm all about that.
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  SPEAKER_02: So tell me, Anne, what do you mean by seasonal living?
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  SPEAKER_02: Because that might confuse a few of our listeners today.
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  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely, and I understand
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  SPEAKER_01: why it would.
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  SPEAKER_01: So one of the things that I was finding challenging with trying to get my message out clearly for people to tap into these things about haiku is is because haiku is actually connected to the seasons.
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  SPEAKER_01: So in Japan, they started celebrating the four seasons way back in like the eighth century.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the seasons were celebrated through poetry back then.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not so much haiku.
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  SPEAKER_01: It started with different forms of poetry.
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  SPEAKER_01: The history goes so deep that I probably would need to take a whole entire university course to completely understand some of these things.
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  SPEAKER_01: But they started with poetry and the seasons And then they moved it into putting it onto their art and to putting it into pottery and the tea ceremonies.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then the seasons just became a big part of their culture that even went into politics and ceremonies and different things.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it was a big part of their lifestyle.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think these things have just gotten lost over time of these special moments.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so with haiku, they use words, seasonal words in part of the haiku.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm going back to more traditional Japanese words.
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  SPEAKER_01: history of haiku.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of haiku poets that don't even include the seasons into their poetry, but I've chosen to because I think it's really important for us to connect to nature, and the seasons are that big part of connecting to nature and being in rhythm with the cycles of the seasons.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they would use what they call in Japan kigo words, which are seasonal words that would put the poem into a season.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then also haiku is written in the present tense.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's what gives it in the moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's representing a moment that the haiku poet is experiencing.
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  SPEAKER_01: So haiku doesn't tell you to do anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think we're conditioned to think listen to quotes or to have some inspiration on things to do but haiku is about being it's about being in the moment and it taps into the senses it's about seeing it's about hearing the sound of water or watching a leaf fall from the sky you know it's so simple and so subtle And I think that as a society, we're just not used to noticing these things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's what I think is the gift about haikus, because it's about noticing and connecting to nature.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when we can slow down and be in these rhythms, then it helps us to just ground and not be so stressed out and get away from the chaos that's currently going on because we know that there's a lot of crappy weird things going
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  SPEAKER_02: on in the world
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  SPEAKER_01: these days.
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  SPEAKER_02: It does you know and just listening to you just I can feel that you know and it's weird to say that but I can feel that almost in my soul like just the simplicity the getting back to nature which I crave all the time just getting outside and just you know, now that our weather in Alberta has been very chaotic this year, ups and downs and snow and no snow, and just wanting to go outside and ground myself and taking off my shoes and standing in the ground.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know, I just love the simplicity of life.
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  SPEAKER_02: And this seems to kind of work towards that, like you're embracing almost like the meditation, you know, when you're trying to center yourself, you're trying to relax, you're trying to take it all in and just enjoying it.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I think this type of poetry, I think that it really almost, it's kind of calling to me, I'll be honest with you.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm just listening to you and I'm like, I really need to start reading this.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I want to talk to you a little bit more about that because you did actually write a book and you're doing journals and you're doing stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I want to talk about that because that's something that's different.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know, we don't see a lot of that.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the way that you're explaining it, I think a lot of our listeners are going to grasp onto that.
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  SPEAKER_02: awesome I love that
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  SPEAKER_01: the book that I wrote is actually well I wrote it four years ago and I really need to do a new one so but what I would love to share with you more is about the seasonal living membership circle that I have created I just launched it in this early December and it's all around a lot of these things that I've just been sharing with you with an added layer of the moon pickles because the moon, the phases of the moon that happen within a month are also connected to the seasons.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I wanted to create something that was kind of a holistic approach of connecting to nature, connecting to the cosmos, the stars, because if we can connect to all of those things, then we are living a little bit more holistically and more grounded.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the new moon is connected to the winter the winter season, and that's when it's a time of going inward and going into stillness.
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  SPEAKER_01: And because we have this crazy solar eclipse today, it's also a new moon.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this week, I'm encouraging my members in the circle to tap into the stillness of the winter season and just go in, have a quiet week.
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  SPEAKER_01: Try to have a quiet week with all this craziness that's going on and giving them suggestions on what you just said, like take your shoes and socks off and go and stand in some grass.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've been doing that.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's very cold.
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  SPEAKER_01: But just getting into things It's a way to start making small changes with these subtle awarenesses.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this membership, people always say, oh, I don't have time.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm too busy.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's a maximum.
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  SPEAKER_01: You put in what you want, but it's about an hour.
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  SPEAKER_01: less than an hour out of your week to have these little bite-sized pieces of inspiration throughout the week.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they get one haiku a week, which I always encourage them to use that haiku as a little bit of a focus, as that moment to pause and to breathe and to just slow down and sink into that haiku and just focus on it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then also, so I talk about the moon cycle of the week, they get a haiku of the week.
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  SPEAKER_01: I give them a little journal or a download.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's always a little bit different.
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  SPEAKER_01: On Wednesday, it's either like last week, I gave them recipes on cherry blossoms because this month, the theme is cherry blossom season and I'm talking about what the cherry blossoms represent in Japan as a symbol of the temporariness of life because cherry blossoms, it's a quick season like they bloom and they're and they're gone really fast.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it just is another reminder to just be in that moment and to savor the spring and look at the awakening that happens when spring is blooming.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm just giving them little bits of inspiration throughout the week, and it's all based around the seasons, around haiku, and around the cycles.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I've also introduced a little bit of Micro Seasons, which is a whole other podcast probably.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well,
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  SPEAKER_02: and I would love that.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think that would be absolutely fantastic to chat about stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_02: I
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  SPEAKER_01: have a couple of haiku if you would like me to.
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  SPEAKER_01: I would.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just want to...
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  SPEAKER_02: I just want to mention too, you know, you were talking about the cherry blossoms and that's funny because a lot of our graphics with the Divas That Care has been the cherry blossoms for the last, I don't know, 10 years.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I just love that you use that within your metaphors and stuff.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I like that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I would love to hear this because I think...
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  SPEAKER_02: You know, the more that I'm listening to you, the more that I'm having a better understanding and the more relaxed I actually feel about things.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you were mentioning, too, about how stressful things are.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it really is.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we're trying to always find things that help balance us a little bit more, help de-stress us and take in the moments and try to get rid of that negativity that we're being surrounded with and bombarded with around life.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I just want to thank you so much for bringing that up and just helping us because I think you're right.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're There's just so much for us right now, and we don't know where to look anymore.
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  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when I'm having conversations with people about what I'm doing, we've been hearing about mindfulness and being in the moment and how we need to be in the moment, but how to...
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, to help.
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  SPEAKER_01: To help.
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  SPEAKER_01: It helps.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not going to solve the world's problems here, but it's just a little way to offer some grounding and just...
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  SPEAKER_01: connecting with yourself and connecting with your feelings because that's another thing because haiku connects to the senses your five senses like again about you know touch how you know how things feel and it's not really like it is connected to your you know emotions feelings but it gets you into your body and connects you then that's the part that helps you to get a little bit more grounded
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, and if you're feeling more grounded, you're going to help the people around you.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I think that's really important.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know, at the Divas That Care, we're always about how can we better ourselves, because what that does is that that ripple effect, if we're more calm, we're more centered, we're more relaxed, then the people around us can see that they can feel that and then they might, it might help them with relieving some of their stresses, because they're There's just so much going on, guys.
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  SPEAKER_02: How do we help our families?
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  SPEAKER_02: We seem to be the ones that kind of keep everybody together, and that's kind of what we do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, which is amazing.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's amazing what you're doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we do need that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Having that community and that support and knowing that we're not alone in this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Almost everybody I'm talking to these days is struggling with things a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like last week, I was all over the place.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was like a roller coaster.
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  SPEAKER_01: One day I was like on top of the world and like this is awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I had a big meltdown last Wednesday, just this big emotional release.
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  SPEAKER_01: But, you know, and that actually takes me back a little bit more about what haiku is.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's about everyday.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just about simple everyday life of just the simplicity of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just an ordinary moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like taking a photograph of a moment and putting it into words.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the words just make it different than words.
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  SPEAKER_01: Looking at a photograph, because with the words, it takes you inward.
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  SPEAKER_02: That is beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you were mentioning, too, about the cycles.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but because of all the changes and today we're going to have the eclipse, does that make a change, too, within ourselves and maybe even our seasons in the moon?
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  SPEAKER_02: Like, how does that affect us and maybe how people have been feeling the last couple of weeks?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I think it's really been affecting us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because we had a, two weeks ago, there was a lunar eclipse.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know that much about the eclipses, but from what I've been reading about, because I did include it in my email that I sent out this morning to the group, and just saying that the eclipses are symbolic for an ending.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's talking about endings and beginnings.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we're supposed to be in this big, huge space ending cycle in our evolution.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I'm hearing, this is a new beginning.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, I think that's why a lot of people are feeling a little loopy
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  SPEAKER_02: these days.
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  SPEAKER_02: So would you mind sharing with us a couple of your haikus?
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  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, I would love to.
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  SPEAKER_01: So think of them almost as little mini meditations.
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  SPEAKER_01: So with haiku, I learned this when I was going to the Vancouver Haiku Group, which is where I learned a lot about haiku.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they would read the haiku twice.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the reason for doing this is that it allows you to actually think into the words a little bit deeper and to feel into them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I also invite you to close your eyes.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I've got three that I'm going to read.
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  SPEAKER_01: Starduster.
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  SPEAKER_01: A weeping willow sweeps the universe.
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  SPEAKER_01: Starduster.
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  SPEAKER_01: A weeping willow sweeps the universe.
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  SPEAKER_01: First blossom.
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  SPEAKER_01: The pink of her blush goes one shade darker.
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  SPEAKER_01: First blossom.
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  SPEAKER_01: The pink of her blush goes one shade darker.
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  SPEAKER_01: After the downpour, a scent of white lilies lingers in the air.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I
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  SPEAKER_02: honestly think that we need to do more of this with younger individuals in school, like you were mentioning, and having them understand explain this like can you imagine if all the young uh young the youth out there would be able to listen to that and just maybe have an understanding what it's all about like a deep feeling oh my goodness it would help them so much through you know college and and growing up and everything absolutely
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  SPEAKER_01: and and this is the thing with height with
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  SPEAKER_02: haiku
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  SPEAKER_01: the way it was taught in elementary schools is they just say, oh, well, they say, oh, well, it's connected to nature, but they don't, well, and I don't know because I'm not in the school system.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't have kids.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: I don't really, I'm out of the loop with a lot of the systems these days.
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  SPEAKER_01: But from what I learned about haiku is that they kept focusing on the syllable count.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's really quite challenging to explain really what that's all about.
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  SPEAKER_01: But when I started going to the Vancouver Haiku Group, they just said to me, you know, it's not about counting syllables.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a less is more, like you're trying to put less words in with a bigger impact.
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  SPEAKER_01: And like the Starduster, the first one that I read, To me, that feels so in time with what's going on right now with these eclipses because I was talking about the cosmos and things like that.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: I wrote this haiku last year We made a move and we moved into this new house that has a willow tree in the backyard.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: And this willow tree is just absolutely beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it just inspired me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, these words just came to me.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: But, you know, the weeping willow and the way that the branches sway, it's just so beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, I think this eclipse is helping to clean up a lot of the darkness, like the negativity, the, you know, the bad stuff that's going on right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's how I'm looking at it, and I'm hoping that that's, you know, contributing to what's going on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I like that you're saying new beginnings.
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  SPEAKER_01: I like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think we're all craving that new beginning.
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  UNKNOWN: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the new moon is about new beginnings.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the new cycle of the moon cycle.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so with the new moon, it's connected to the winter.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then when we go into the waxy moon, it's connected to the spring season.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the spring season is about...
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  SPEAKER_01: the rebirth and we're, you know, and again, with that reflection to nature, you can see nature comes alive and the blossoms, I was talking about the cherry blossoms and just everything in nature starts to wake up.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's also connected to the morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: So spring is in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can break the seasons down into a 24-hour period.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the winter season is when you're sleeping.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's that rest.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you wake up and you're in the spring season in the morning and then you go into the afternoon and that's the summer.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the summer season is the fun season.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's joy.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's summer.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's when you have a lot of energy and you're more productive.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you go into the evening, which is the fall.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the fall season is connected to the...
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  SPEAKER_01: the waning moon and the summer is connected to the full moon and the full moon is that time of abundance and again making babies and if you really wanted to get into specifics this is also all connected to the year menstrual cycles the full moon is connected to ovulation and the new moon is connected to the menstruation and so when you start looking at all of these cycles and how the moon cycles and the connection to the earth and then nature, that's the part where the seasonal living comes into and what the added part about the haiku and the seasonal words and the being in the moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: That, in my opinion, I like, I love...
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  SPEAKER_01: this offer because it's unique, especially the haiku added to it, which is helping people to have those moments.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I love that.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_02: I just want to ask you a little bit about, you've got a YouTube channel here, and I think it's absolutely awesome.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_02: I want you to share with us why you decided to do a YouTube channel and what's the purpose of it.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I started sending the newsletter out five years ago, a weekly newsletter.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: It was recommended by a marketing woman that was helping me with some of these things.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: And I...
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: was like, are you serious?
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: Once a week?
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I don't know what to say.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have anything to say about this.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I just want to write my poetry.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: But then I warmed up to the idea and I started writing.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: I started sending this newsletter out in January of 2019.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: And then I think it was three years ago I started doing the videos.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_01: I took a course, actually.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: I took like a social media how to do videos course.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: Because I'm a designer, I can make the graphics and things like that.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: And then it inspired me to take my newsletter emails to the next level and put them into a YouTube channel.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: So that was how that started going.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: And I've been doing that once a week.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: So basically, I'm reading...
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: the newsletter and the haiku that I put out to my list that I get once a week.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's great.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully to inspire people and to get haiku out there and to get it out there a little bit more.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, I'm
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_02: excited.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly, and what we're going to do is that we're going to share that with our listeners.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_02: I'm so excited.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_02: So for all of our listeners today, I'm going to be posting all of Anne's information on all our social media.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_02: I'm going to have links attached to it so that you guys can go and click on it and go check her out not only on Facebook.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_02: She's got a website, but you can also go into Instagram.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_02: I think this is great, and our YouTube channel.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_02: Anne, thank you so much for being my guest today.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_02: I would love to have you back on the show, actually, to maybe go through some more things with haiku.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_01: I would love that.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: That would be
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_02: awesome.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_02: This has been amazing.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for having me.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_02: It has been so much fun.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_02: I'm learning so much.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_02: And that's what I love about this is that when I have the opportunity to interview amazing women like yourself, I get to learn more things, things that I didn't know or understand about.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_02: And I want to thank you so much for that today.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, thank you.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you for what you're doing.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_02: It's a gift.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, thank you so much.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we're going to have you back on soon, so we'll definitely connect here.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_02: And I want to do a big shout out to all of our listeners.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_02: Make sure that you take this recording of the show, send it to your friends and family.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_02: There might be some people that you're going to be able to inspire.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_02: We're all looking for a little bit of ways to help us relax, to de-stress.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_02: And why not check out Haiku?
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_02: I think this is going to be great.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_02: I'm going to be also posting about Anne's book.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_02: She's got her amazing website, you guys.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_02: You've got to check this out.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_02: There's a way to get her journals.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_02: And it's just so great.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_02: So make sure you go and check her out.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_02: Anne, again, it's been a pleasure.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_02: I hope that you have an amazing day.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_02: And to all of our listeners, make sure you do something kind also.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_02: I think that's really important today.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_02: We need more kindness than ever before.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_02: So take care, everyone.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_02: Until next time.
• 28:22
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• 28:23
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• 28:26
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