We’re into the last week of September. Hope you’re enjoyed your month so far.
It’s an exciting time for me as I start my formal dissertation process. The formal dissertation process includes:
- Writing a prospectus (an overview of your dissertation topic, research design, description of the problem you’re planning to study, research questions, etc.);
- Finding two people for your dissertation committee (a content expert and an expert in the methodology, or statistics, data analysis, and research design); and
- Receiving the final approval for my committee.
At this point, it means that Walden University has accepted my dissertation topic and I’m well on my way! Now Walden and I have an official contract: I write the dissertation and Walden will give me my doctoral degree. Step One is to review the current state of affairs on my topic of sustainability – it’s called a literature review.
Last year, I planned to start my project this fall term, and the universe has lined things up to let that happen. Thank you, universe!
But this column is really about Fall — here is some haiku to start off the new season. Enjoy!
the yellowed leaves
are the feelings of the tree
falling away
–kojiturn this way
I too feel lonely
late in autumn
–bashoautumn morning
a spider’s web in the hedge
weighed down with dew
–Philip Adams
Styphnolobium japonicum tree
gray autumn day
on the golden hillside
a lone pine
–sojioverhead, geese murmuring
feathered arrows shot southward
by winter’s bow
–ray rasmussenmy spring is just this
a single bamboo shoot
a willow branch
–issu
Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Autumn, 1573, Giuseppe Arcimboldo:
Autumn, 1573, Musée du Louvre, Paris du Louvre, Paris
autumn sundial;
a lofty aged tree
in the park
–Museki Abeashes my burnt hut
but wonderful the cherry
blooming on my hill
–hokushi
(Source: a haiku & photography webpage)
If you missed my first haiku column this month, click here.
Bessie DiDomenica, MBA
Co-founder, Columnist and Editor
Secretary of Innovation
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