MikeWrites' Blog

Minimal thoughts

If haiku exemplifies minimalist, but ultra-expressive poetry, what would be its lifestyle analogue?  Spartan comes to mind, but the Wiktionary defines it as "lacking in decoration and luxury", so the whole concept of expressiveness - of richness or fullness of meaning - seems absent.  It's sort of a 'path of least existence', which, to me, doesn't embody the spirit of haiku.

Perhaps we have to make up a word, something like hai-life.  Someone living the hai-life would have few possessions or luxuries, but would not see it as a limitation or adverse condition.  Their attitude would make it a positive situation, as noted in Philippians 4:11.

Whatever your situation, I hope you're living the hai-life.