I have never been to Japan. Yet, I live a wabi-sabi lifestyle, enjoy zen inspired blogs, love sushi, wado ryu karate, the books of Haruki Murakami, the films of Hayao Miyazaki. And I write haiku every day. I am Swedish. From a country at the other end of the world, with its own culture, customs and traditions. But the attraction of haiku writing is universal. The enjoyment of the changes of the seasons (even if we neither have cicadas nor fireflies), the humbling force of nature and seeing beauty in the small things of everyday life. To be given the ability to catch and preserve precious moments of what is most beautiful in this world. And to share it with others. This must be why haiku is so popular, not just in Sweden.
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