Ya-Ya's Tea Board

As I am sitting here amidst all the confusion and shaken confidence, another aftershock from last Saturday’s earthquake sways the house. It is difficult to keep calm and reasonable in times when the earth shakes under our feet and the radio reports on destruction and disaster nonstop.

A haiku might help to restore some peacefulness in our minds.

making the lawn
a sit-down teahouse…
summer trees
Kobayashi Issa (1763 – 1828)