“WRITE” Through It.

Not long ago, I found my old notebook from a teacher training course from many years back. We were tasked with constructing 8 short lessons to teach within a 10 minute timeframe over 8 weeks.

Many of my classmates taught wonderful and complex topics on all sorts of things. As students, we were taking a lot of information in 10 minute segments, but I wanted to take a different approach.

I taught short 1 minute lessons and provided the group 9 minutes to write in response. Each week, the topic was different, ranging from serious to silly.

The feedback was from the group was a clear indication that many of us are writers at heart. They loved the simplicity and the TIME to put pen to pad to consider their own words.

We learned a lot about each other in those 8 weeks.

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So after hearing my third client last week say that they used to love writing but either had no time for it, or made no time for it, I decided to bring that short course to you here.

Perhaps it will inspire you to play more with your words.

I present, lesson one. ♡

5.7.5

Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that has just three lines:

• five syllables in the first line

• seven syllables in the second line

• five syllables in the third line.

Here is an example by Cassandra Jasmine:

FAMILY

A complex puzzle

unable to lose a piece,

always there for you.

What can be shared in just three brief lines?

It can be challenging to reduce an experience down to a few short words.

Are you up for the challenge?

Write a haiku using the prompt below, or create your own.

THE HAPPIEST I HAVE EVER BEEN…

PLEASE SHARE YOUR WORDs.

Post your HAPPY HAIKU in the comments or in the form below. Encourage your kids, partner, or co-worker to play along.

Submissions will be posted to the bottom of this page.

Haiku Submissions

FLOATING
The sun warms my skin
I float blissfully at sea
This is peace within.

-Yvette Sechrist McGlasson

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At peace, feeling light
Bumps and turns on the roadway 
Living sets me free.

-RP

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Inhale and exhale
The Greek sunrise filled my soul
Our marriage is here.

-Jordan Tarver

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Radiant smiling 
My lungs bursting with laughter 
hugs from my children

-Beth D.

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I built it for her.

We moved in ten years ago.

Grew our family.

-G.A.

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We took a cruise ship

to an island far away.

Incredible time.

-Lisa G.

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All of life is good

Happy is a state of mind

Stay there more often.

- O.G. The Real

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SkyDiving:

I dove from the sky

Please don’t even ask me why

Glad I did not die.

-R.L.

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My daughter is amazing 
She is always there for me 
I am grateful for her.

-Thankful Mom

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First heartbeats, first breaths,

heart now grows outside my chest.

The births of my boys.

-Jacquelyn Benjamin

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Bare souls, tangled hearts -
if only for a moment,
some people change us.

-Jacquelyn Benjamin

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Write through it.