Winke, Jeff, writer of Haibun

Two examples

pages 90 and 91

Winke's I'll Tell You So

purchasable from Cross + Roads Press

Ellison Bay WI

RIP

Our linoleum woodcut emblem

Once upon a time,

we published a little magazine, Vulcan Weathervanes,

dedicated to our newfound interest in simple living,

and it was in concert with our weathervane-making shop

in the garage behind the yardlight sign above.

The production of the magazine was done on a manual typewriter

and run off on a mimeo machine. Very limited

and exclusive circulation, i.e., it went to anyone would take

a copy. Died a natural death within a year

but we delivered the promised goods. (12 issues)

We had a Centerfold in the middle of the little magazine that featured

some simpler machine, such as push lawn movers, one speed bikes,

an old Maytag wringer washer,

a basement shower stall, and the one we enclose today

was writer Mary Hontros's tribute to her treadle sewing machine.

She wrote it as though the sewing machine was speaking.

We know something of that, machines speaking.

The Singer we use as our desk in the Raccoon News

is also a treasured treadle machine with a message,

cased in beautiful wood.

Reference:

http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2008/11/im-not-dead-yet-m-python.html

shoestring medium; no computers then



Orduration by moonlight
DD 1976

This issue, VW No. 7, has become something of a collectors item.

.....................

There is a man in this world

who is never turned down

wherever he chances to stray.

He gets the glad hand

in the populous town,

or out where the farmers make hay.

He is greeted with pleasure

on deserts of sand,

or deep in the aisles of the woods.

Wherever he goes there’s a welcoming hand –

he’s the man who delivers the goods!

The kindness of neighbors....

Birds flit in and out of yard outside back door

following an additional foot of snow here.

A junco and female cardinal happen to be feeding from the seed Dee scattered when we shot this picture through the back door glass. Two doors up, our raccoon district neighbor. Darrell, once again blew the snow from our corner sidewalk, including the driveway and approach, kind soul that he is.

old credo; today's tangerine

Cut-crystal bowl (antique) holds floating candle

So nice it is to find a regular use for this crystal bowl
kept, not shunted off to other more desirous relatives
when a dead aunt stopped running her fingers over it;
gathering dust even in a glass-doored china cabinet
rarely used
too exotic for us
Now we float a candle in it
from the so-called church retreat
and it bends lovely sharp reflections
every which way.

Be so called

On the very day of another more salutary happening, the so-called Hla Aung Christmas cactus burst into bloom. Saturday, Feb. 6th. Light and brilliance circulated throughout the raccoon district, which includes within its boundaries the site of another stimulus, the Congregational Church, so-called, also known as the First Congregational United Church of Christ, Waukesha.

There, at a so-called retreat, the Rev. Deborah Howland, interim minister, unleashed a high voltage curriculum, designed to energize already partially charged batteries, a corp of 40 + attendees who were eager to learn and share ideas of growth, healing, and revitalization.

First Congo-ites, so-called, looking for more links in their circle, traditionally and renownedly had their arms over each other's shoulders, if only figuratively. That's a reason people like those several who joined as new members on Feb. 7th choose our church.

Anyone who entered the church basement, now the Heritage Room, so-called, may have been burning at a walk-on refrigerator light bulb wattage of 15 , but were rheostated up, and up, as the 3.5 hour meeting went along. When they left they were too bright to behold with the naked eye.

Following a delicous breakfast put on by the Church Life committee, the students and discussers of so-called 'What Do We Now?'ism sat brightly, not nightly, at individual round tables.

The Congregational Church is ascending.

It is ascending!

We here are not enfranchised as mere raccoon reporters to proselytize nor would we want to give anything away*.

Come to the next two so-called retreats

March 6th

and

April 24th

* OK, there were gift bags given away at the conclusion, sacks that included among other delightful things glow tubes that you bend and shake to activate, (get it?) and a mirror 'story', so-called, that has made its way into our wallet as a permanent reminder.

Be so called.

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