The Thousandfold Stair

The climb of a thousand steps-one three-line, seventeen-syllable haiku at a time.

"I'd like to do something creative this morning, but I'm not sure what that is. Write a little something. Even a poem."'

So began this "idea with barely a pulse," as Elizabeth Gilbert (Big Magic) 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, e...