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HOW TO WRITE HAIKU

First, there are very preliminary reports that  a person fired shots from an AK-47  adjacent to Donald Trump's golf course in Florida, and was arrested.  No one, including Trump, was injured.  This is now a second attempt on his life.  He must now be totally spooked. Today, something spiritual and cool.  You can believe all you want that there is a Heaven, but you'll never know if you will actually get there until you die.  Then, if there is no Heaven, that belief, while in vain, at least comfortably allows you to pass in a hopeful state of mind.  There is immense psychological value, relative to my fear of entering a perpetual state of nothingness.  Except I'm trying to strengthen other thoughts, such as eternal peace.  So  Imagine . What I'm leading to, though, is a state of mind you can enhance while you are still alive.  I just read an article in  Time  magazine,  The Pursuit of Happiness: My Week at the Buzz...

MY RECENT KOREAN ADVENTURE

My world adventure has not started yet, but I did just complete a Netflix Korean series, which inspired two follow-up meals featuring one of their popular alcoholic drinks that dominated in the show and, it turns out, also throughout the world.  Jinro Soju sells three times the volume of its nearest competitors, which are McDowell's No. 1 Whisky and Officers's Choice, both from India. Crash Landing on You was a marathon event.  Rated 98 by Rotten Tomatoes audiences, the series had 16 episodes, each about an hour and a half long, with a finale of two hours.  Add them up, and you get 24.5 hours, the equivalent of twelve films. For two decades now I've felt that the best films came from Korea.  My frequent international travels meant that I watched quite a number of them on the flights, and there was something special about productions from that country.  They get to you emotionally.  That gave me an inkling of those Korean soap operas ( also called dramas ...