happenings

…this Sunday, January 18 at 1:00 p.m. on Northumberland 89.7 FM, you can hear my chat with Felicity and Gwynne from Word on the Hills about my new book, As If Through a Window. If you miss the show, it can be streamed and podcast at https://northumberland897.ca/ and will be available next week at Home

Jizo bodhisattva, whose figures are often clothed or capped in red, protects travellers on the way. Jizo is evoked by these red capped lichen called British Soldiers. Go in peace! It has been published this month in http://www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net/en/current-issue.html, a semi-annual on-line magazine filled with exquisite verse and images in the tradition of Japanese short poetry.