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Janae JeanMay 12, 20224 min readThe Musical Bridge – Celebrating Cherry Blossom Season with Japanese Arts – Creating A Haiku SongThe Musical Bridge – Celebrating Cherry Blossom Season with Japanese Arts – Part 2 – Hanami and Haiku In our previous post, we were...