The Thousandfold Stair

<p><strong>The climb of a thousand steps-one three-line seventeen-syllable haiku at a time.</strong></p><p></p><p><em>I'd like to do something creative this morning but I'm not sure what that is. Write a little something. Even a poem.'</em></p><p></p><p>So began this idea with barely a pulse as Elizabeth Gilbert (<em>Big Magic</em>) would say which became an experiment then a practice. In a time when other creative pursuits felt far out of reach that haiku practice became a daily companion on the trek across many landscapes-natural spiritual emotional. Toward some destination deep in the (still) unknown.</p><p></p><p><em>The Thousandfold Stair</em> is a collection of haiku drawn from the more than 1000 composed over a year-long journey accompanied by author notes and essays. It deals with themes of grief and loss memory loss/dementia creativity and craft and faith among others.</p>