Haiku instructions:

1. Stop
2. Look around
3. Listen
4. Smell
5. Feel your skin
6. Take a breath

Optional: write a few phrases.

Suggestions for opportunities to write haiku:

1. In a forest
2. On a mountain
3. On Main Street Northampton
4. In front of a fire
5. Standing in line at WalMart
6. On a march for justice
7. Holding a sign at a protest (carry a pencil, back of sign is useful for haiku)
8. Changing a diaper
9. Etc.

How to judge haiku:

1. Did I complete instructions #1 through #6? Note if you missed one.
2. Did too many thoughts get crammed in? i.e. Did I try to make a point? Was I trying to be clever?  Or spiritual? Note if you did.
3. Did I try to use 5-7-5 syllable form? Did it help or hinder?
4. Did a pebble of my world view shift a bit? Note if it did.

Thus did haiku save my soul.