TAE23

Under Ice
(mixed media)
5" x 7"

Donated to TAE23
To benefit the Urban Native Youth Association
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Exibit opening June 24, 2023

DailyHaiga

 

DailyHaiga
June 18, 2023

Déjà vu

The old postcard is postmarked September 22, 1913. On the front is a picture of a boarding school for girls. The message reads, “Dearest, I got your letter this morning and sure did enjoy it. Will answer it real soon. Please be good and next Wednesday send me a package of chocolate cakes. If you send it then, I will get them by Friday. Am very happy up here. Love to all from the ‘noise of the family’.”

No matter the amount of planning and preparations we make for children, the child will ad lib all the way. It is always interesting how much children of yesterday and today are alike.

        a new day . . .
        the mockingbird’s
        old song

— Dan Hardison


Note: The Columbia Female Institute was an Episcopal finishing school for girls established in 1835. It was forced to close in 1934, a casualty of the Great Depression. The school was located in Columbia, Tennessee.


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May 17, 2023

Mother's Vase

Haiga by Dan Hardison

This haiga is included in the book "contemporary haibun 18", an anthology of haibun, tanka prose, and haiga from 2022. Available from Amazon.

Comment by editor by Ron C. Moss: “'Mother’s Vase' offers a poignant senryu with which we can all identify: how our dear mothers hold everything together. As with all of Dan’s work, the line work in the drawing is sure and steady, displaying great concentration, and the muted pastel colours work well with the subject."