Good Morning East Coast have you seen my jet lag ?

Back in water Surprized After this life I can still float © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 07/06/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (swim) #senryu 🏊🏼‍♂️ ⏳ #retirement

In the Sequoia An owl hoots The rats are back © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 07/06/2025 #dailyhaikuprompt (owl) #senryu #poetry🌲🦉🐀 #urbanliving #SanFrancisco

Trip East for family and a bit of Swedish Death Cleaning So far today: VRBO hotel bate-and-switch, a Montreal Old Port unit, now in a basement with prison bars @C$300/night and then our AirCanada flight is cancelled...new flight to follow? Do we need a vacation from our vacation? WTFIT?🇺🇸✈️🇨🇦

Our hills parch gold But below life blossoms Fed green on morning mist © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 07/06/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (parched) #Haiku #summer #fog #California

For #SmallPoemSunday a series of #deathpoem patterned on Japanese Death Poems 🇯🇵 a bit of outrage, directed, imagining death (well, one) in different styles* 🇺🇸 #poetry #Haiku #senryu #senryusunday🧵/1 *as a🩺 I’ll never wish harm, but I won’t mourn every loss

plover watch the waves ebb and flow we watch plover with our wave wet feet © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 07/04/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (plover, sand) #Haiku 🪶🌊 #beachwalking #OceanBeach #SanFrancisco

#SkySunday #silentsunday #thePacific #lookingsouth #Pescadero #California #HWY1 #notfireworks © 📷 06/28/2026

🎁 #sanfrancisco our “coldest winter” phase is on with clouds, fog, and chill. and everyone in the know, or of means, seems to have headed elsewhere to actually see fireworks. stars are still there even if you can’t see them. coming? great, remember to L-A-Y-E-R. (or it’s an overpriced fleece)

#SFSidewalkHaiku #267 here too roses crowd our city, our sight lines, our foggy dream scented air © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 07/01/2026, 📷 04/03 #dailyhaikuprompt (roses) #Haiku #haiga 🌱☀️🍃 💐 🌹 #haikusaturday #saturdayhaiku #SanFrancisco #BernalHeights

Death Poem #2 if I must go soon let it be in Autumn, I never liked the cold © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 07/2026 🍂 my last Tassajara take home prompt was to write a dead poem but make it happy (excuse the rabbit hole to follow Sunday when there will be a lot more…opinion) #poetry #Haiku #deathpoem 

I don't get why people keep dunking on the Great American State fair. You Philistines all fail to appreciate that Trump, the cultural savant that he is, has designed one of the most moving tributes to one of America's greatest painters. TDS is real, y'all.

another candle spent and now a new one lit to carry a year into late summers, fruitful falls, then winter’s quiet close © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 07/01/2026 #tankathursday (lantern) #tanka #poetry 🏮🎂 Sorry I missed this prompt last week I was wireless Happily wireless

#tankathursday #tanka #tassajara #stellarsjay Outside signs caution Stellar’s jays are aggressive but that is a jay This plastic might as well say The mountain’s water is wet © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 📷 06/2026 🐦‍🔥🚰

…yeah this is where we live now. arresting nurse-nuns, in their habits, on their way to Mass. then waiting for “someone in power” to realize that it’s at least reading bad, though probably not that it IS BAD. #abolishice #voteblue #november2026 🌊🇺🇸

#SFSidewalkHaiku #266 In salt spray In sand Flowers make “due” ©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 07/01, 📷 06/28 #dailyhaikuprompt (morning due) #Haiku #senryu #Pescadero #thePacific #seasidewoolysunflower 🌱🌿

Unprecedented corruption. May rank among the great kleptocrats of all time. Here's one list from 2004 marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

I was blessed last week with the start of another rotation around our sun and lucky to spend it at #Tassajara for a poetry retreat with the sublime Jane Hirshfield I was really hoping for #weekZforZen not #weekZforZany but zen can be zany too #alphabetchallenge #scape #California 📷 ⛩️

#tanka with a correct seasonal turn Just back from a Zen poetry retreat at Tassajarra 🇺🇸🧘‍♂️ #poetry

#alphabetchallenge #weekYforYonder #Oakland #theportofOakland #Alameda #SFBay #SanFrancisco #lookingeast ©️📷 02/27/2026

Tell me 5 random things you love (that aren't people or pets) *salt (on food, especially w/ crunch, on my skin after an ocean swim or a hike after the sweat has dried, on someone else’s skin, on a margarita rim)…salt *fresh water *herbs *fruit trees *cashmere

Yet somehow Somehow Apple🍎🍏 prices have not gone down? And we are still importing juice and sauce while small farms or orchards fail? Imagine that #supportamericanfarmers #supportamericanfarmworkers #immigrantspickyourfood

#alphabetchallenge #weekYforYonder #potrerohill #SanFrancisco #thehillsofSanFrancisco #thestreetsofSanFrancisco #lookingsoutheast 📷 © 02/2026

Were there a solstice for other things - depression, despair, dementia That moment named, the knowing next day just a bit…lighter © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 06/21/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (solstice) #senryu #tanka #SmallPoemSunday 🌄

#SkySunday #silentsunday #GoldenGatePark #SanFrancisco #…#lookingnorth #montereycypress 🌱🌿 📷 ©️ 05/28/2026

“Among those accused of vandalism was David Carter Hearn, 67, a cyclist and three-time Olympian as a canoeist who says he stopped at the site on Friday…, then reached down to touch a strip of peeling blue paint mixed with the algae.” 🦠 So now we all have a new sandwich guy. 🥪 🚴🏼‍♂️ 🛶

In the nightmare I’m by a reflecting pool Green Attenborough saying “It’s in the water …The water knows” 🇺🇸🦠🛌 #reflectingpool #poetry #tanka

“I’m under no illusions that individual philanthropy is a substitute for structural reform. Piecemeal donations — even to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars — are far less effective than a system that serves working people by design.” #taxtherich #endcitizensunited #healthcareforall 🩺🗳️🌊

Today would’ve been my dad’s 89th birthday He doesn’t visit much I hear him though - warning, explaining (OK, lecturing too), and, at his best, saying things will be OK

#alphabetchallenge #weekXforXyloid Virgin of Mercy, #MadonnadellaMisericordia #theBargello #Florence 🇮🇹 📷 10/24/2022 circa 1400, polychrome and gilt wood, Umbrian

#alphabetchallenge #weekXforXyloid Penitent Magdalene #Donatello #MuseodellOperadelDuomo #Florence 🇮🇹 #therenaissance 📷 10/14/2022

A mile today…and hopefully many more to go 🏊‍♂️🌁🌉🌇 #goals

I’m convinced—or at least hope so desperately—that the biggest contribution Mamdani makes to our national politics is to remind us that there is a politics of joy, and that it’s so so SO much better than the alternative.

Today a bit of response to Friday’s content moderation…and other things #ekphrastic #poetry #DavidHockney🕯️#thenakedandthenude 🏳️‍🌈🏊🏼‍♂️🎨🖌️🖼️

(i) this cold constant churn creation and destruction mist sea foam sand shore (ii) mist foam sand in constant churn creation and destruction ✍🏼 📷 06/10/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (cool water) #senryusunday #senryu #fortfunston #SanFrancisco #thePacific #lookingwest #alphabetchallenge #weekWforWater

My favorite portrait of the Pacific 🌊 🌅 © Rick Ehling 📷 01/2023 #alphabetchallenge #weekWforWater #thePacific #MuirBeach #lookingsouthwest

#SFSidewalkHaiku #265 California Seaside Daisy, more petals to love…or not © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 04/20/2026, 📷 04/13 #senryu #HaikuSaturday #SeasideDaisy #SanFrancisco #NoeValley #californianative 🌿 🌱

Rep Joyce Beatty, the reason Trump's name on Kennedy Center is no more 🏆🎉🥳 Sound on to really appreciate this clip 👏🏽🤣🤣🤣 #KennedyCenter #JoyceBeatty

David Hockney (1937-2026) in peace Two Boys in a Pool, 1965. The David Hockney Foundation

#SFSidewalkHaiku #264 In sprays of pink clarkia signal Spring © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 06/06/2026, 📷 05/08/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (spray) #Haiku 🌱🌿 #clarkia #GlenPark #SanFrancisco #California

#alphabetchallenge #weekWforWater 🌊 © 📷 Rick Ehling 04/2024 #fortfunston #SanFrancisco #thePacific #lookingsouthwest #FirmWest #thediscoveryofthepacific #ThomGunn #poetry

two sides of a coin 🪙 on lawns 🌾: No Mow May bees and butterflies feed in peace No Mow May ticks begin their Spring Incursion #dailyhaikuprompt (cut grass) #senryu 💣🕊️

IDK 🤷 if one can call a month in water - change? (I guess August will tell) But I’m wet again and slowly slowly stronger 🏊‍♂️🌁 #SanFrancisco #swim #76degrees #bayclub #retirement #alphabetchallenge #weekWforWater

#silentsunday #theEmbarcadero #SanFrancisco #cablecar © 📷 05/26/2026

#SFSidewalkHaiku #263 grandmother’s garden needs but one generation to return to wild © Rick Ehling ✍️06/06/2026 📷02/02/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (wild iris) #senryusunday #senryu 🌱

#SFSidewalkHaiku #262 No yellow brick road Just Spring painting Summer’s path, in poppies ©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 06/04, 📷 05/24 #dailyhaikuprompt (paint) #Haiku #haiga 🎨 🌱 #NoeValley #SanFrancisco

“Spain’s economic approach was rooted in economic and political realism…When the rich get extra money, they tend to save it, which simply pushes up asset prices; when the poor get extra money, they spend it, which creates all sorts of real economic activity.”

#happypride 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇸 #weekVforVocal #alphabetchallenge 📷 04/2023 (whether proclaimed or recognized by governments or not, we make our own kind of music)

Above hank circles Me too Hoping he at least is making progress © Rick Ehling ✍🏼 05/31/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (hawk) #senryu #senryusunday