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Dan Brook

Dan Brook2022    Dan Brook teaches sociology at San Jose State University, from where he organizes the Hands on Thailand program.

His most recent books are Harboring Happiness: 101 Ways To Be Happy, Sweet Nothings, about the nature of haiku and the concept of nothing, and Eating the Earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 ►     Dan's microchap is available below. Download the single-page PDF by clicking the title & saving to your pc. Set your printer for 'landscape' printing. Folding instructions are under the Who We Are menu tab.

 

Origami Microchap

 A Little Life

     

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Dan Brook CVR A Little Life 2022

Cover by JanK

 

 

 

 

sitting with Basho
we don’t speak to each other
sipping barley tea

 

jumping, then plopping
resting next to an old pond
I hear Basho’s frog

 

 

 

 

an empty enso
yet it is also quite full
common crane hatches

 

a temple decays
falling in onto itself
wildflowers grow

 

silently, with bare feet
repairing Buddhist murals
his meditation

 

walking with my friend
a spiritual journey
as deep as any

 

sakura season
delicate pink flowers
make all of us bloom

 

Dan Brook © 2022