haiku

Haiku Your Journaling

The haiku might have been designed especially for scrapbooking. With its seventeen syllable format (although the western versions do give a little bit of latitude), it’s perfect for creating a short piece of journaling that still manage to capture the essence of the story you’re trying to tell. Definition: Haiku (pronounced High-koo) is a non-rhyming, [...]

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Haiku Heaven

In a previous post, Journaling from the Heart, I recommended the haiku as a good approach to communicating an emotion or a mood for those of us who struggle with writing emotional language. Its structured form removes the ‘unnecessary’ words we often clutter up our communication with and cuts straight to the heart of the [...]

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