First, this is a collaborative blog by a mother and a son.  As unlikely a pairing as can be imagined.  Mom has been blogging for years and has suffered much ridicule from her son, not incidentally because her computer literacy is sorely lacking.  Her son imagined her plunge into the blogosphere as just another item on his growing ‘Sonnydo” list; not something to Celebrate!
In the fullness of time, the son created his own blog as a tool to process some “dark matter” in his soul and found that a daily writing discipline had unexpected benefits he never imagined.
While researching poetic forms one day, the son came across an interesting notion- the Mondo- a poetic dialogue between two poets using the same form.  Like Haiku or Tanka, the structure is found in the syllable count as opposed to rhyme scheme.  With much hesitation, he proposed this idea to his mom.  “How about we write a ‘Book of Days’ using this form?  I’ll start with a Katauta (a half poem) and you can finish it.  Then you start one and I’ll finish it.”  It seemed simple enough.
The son was not prepared for the fervency of his mom’s response!  Time will tell what nature of beastie we have created!

10/26/2014

Well!

I never imagined that we would be still doing this in 2023, but here we are, nine years later; still coming up with new and different observations and commentary on the world around us, sharing these thought with each other and responding in kind. Have we missed a day? Maybe a few- but for the most part, we have done this each and every one of the last 3,287 days; rain or shine, through joys and sorrows, vacations and hospital stays, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, and as far as I can tell at this point, we will likely continue as long as we both shall live!

10/25/2023