Dear Reader,
About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”
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March in D.C. usually means longer days, warmer weather, and lucky first sightings of cherry blossoms. It’s also when the Golden Triangle BID adorns downtown D.C. with posters that display the winning verses from its annual haiku competition. This March will be a bit darker than most, marking the anniversary of the District’s first COVID-19 case. Taking note of that date, the theme of this year’s haiku competition is “Daydreams and Musings,” inviting locals and writers from around the world to escape from or reflect on the pandemic in their poetry. The competition follows the Haiku Society of America’s guidelines for modern haiku, which explains why many previous winners deviate from the usual 5-7-5 syllable structure we learned as kids. In addition to the usual winners ove