Visual Haiku

About the Book

The book is in honor of Gerard Beahan, the author’s husband, who passed away on October 8, 2009. It began with pressing flowers and leaves taken from the baskets of flowers from the wake and picking up the fallen leaves of autumn on the streets of Garden City, NY where the author and her husband lived for almost forty years. The next step was creating designs with these flowers and leaves. Each design then inspired a title and later the haiku was added. The book grew in stages. Francesca hopes her readers have a pleasant experience browsing through this book.

About the Author

Francesca Beahan was born in Manhattan, NY. Her early education was in a bilingual Polish school. Ahe landed in Brooklyn, NY via Hallstead, PA. From high school she went on to work in the corporate world for twelve years while taking courses at Pace College, Brooklyn College, Fordham Universiry and later was enrolled in the Associate in Arts program at New York University. In one day, she went from the business world to become a full-time student in Queens College CUNY where she earned a BA in Music cum laude and finished her senior year with a scholarship to study in Bologna and Florence, Italy. She went on to get a Higher Diploma in Education from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; an Honorary BA and an MEd at Maynooth, the National University in Ireland; a Masters in Theology from the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, NY; as well as honors in Piano, Voice and Musicological studies.