366 Days: : Haiku and Photography : Lauren Oujiri, LLC : 9780692044452 : 0692044450 : 12 Oct 2018 : Lauren Oujiri, a writer, photographer, and coach, picked up haiku in 2017 for the first time since childhood, began writing it daily, and 1000+ haiku later, this book emerged. Lauren uniquely pairs her haiku with photography from the ocean vistas to the most delicate inner fractals of a sunflower while touching on the human condition, paradox, and beauty of life. Her first collection, "For Your Truth & Light," was a simple reaching in and reaching out with 78 poems and photos. By comparison, this daily compilation - with a nod to the oft-forgotten Leap Day - of 366 pairs is a more full expression and exploration of standard themes around love, pain, confusion, wonder, joy, comfort, dreams, despair, beauty, solitude, inner contemplation, connection, compassion, and peace. "I am often asked if the haiku or the image comes first, and the answer is "yes!" . It goes in both directions. It co