Senryu : new life

I don’t want a 9-to-5 job. I have many skills but shrink at marketing myself — feels pushy — problematic in freelancing.  So I’m trying Zazzle. I design, get 5-15% percent ; they manufacture, ship. Someone said once they had 600 designs up, they sold regularly.  That’s a lot.

income is needed
searching for a newish life
creating designs

haibun by M. Nakazato LaFreniere

References:

Chèvrefeuille’s challenge create a haibun on “New Life” with a 55-word paragraph or less and a haiku.  The 55 count includes the haiku.  I did my lifetype senryu like I do as my haibun.  It was very hard cutting it down to 55 words — I had to keep cutting and slicing.  Concise I am not when it comes to paragraphs.  In the end I cut more than half but kept about 90% of the meaning which is good.

In Haiku, a poem about nature reveals a truth about life.  Senryu is a bit more direct — although it often uses sarcasm or irony — it’s essence is about human life.  I’ve never really seen senryu paired with a haibun as haibun’s tend to be more of a dreamy poetic paragraph about a moment in a place.  So mine is too direct to be anything like a traditional haibun.  I’ve been thinking of a project though of doing a haibun everyday with a senryu to describe life in the now — a bit like Salad Anniversary which did that in tanka/senryu but less relationship-based.  I like the idea of a word-count restriction because it forces you to hone things down.  Anyways something that I am thinking of.

#1405 New Life (“extreme” haibun)
CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Cactus Dreams prototypes
these are my prototype designs.  I don’t consider them finalized until I see the product in case it doesn’t come up to expectations.  As I don’t get a prototype, I have to buy one so I make things that are on sale.  Problem is they can take more than 2 weeks to arrive. It’s actually a “secret” page that doesn’t show in the menu because I am using the page to get feedback from friends on different things I make.  I haven’t made a shop page yet — but I did buy cactusdreams.com for $11.99.  I plan to make a Cactus Dream blog for the shop. Hmmm, I wonder if I am addicted to making blogs.  Is there an AA for this?