Haiku Ellipses...Invitation...Response...

HER CIRCLES Circular Colors with spiral arms spinning round moving inside HER Circle is the theme:  circle of colors,  circling spiral arms,  circle spinning,  circular movement inside. Multiple interpretations are possible:  multiple colored chakra centers inside her are spinning spirals,  one energy center is filled with many colors all spinning round,  the seed of life growing and spinning inside her circular womb... The perceptual move here is:  to see with circular eyes ,  see the circled colors all round us,  and perhaps more importantly,  to feel the different colored arms circling inside of us ,  our organs, cells, and blood...    

  ENFOLDED IN LOVE Seated, hands touch toes Head down to knees, breathing in... Surrounded by LOVE Sitting on the floor with legs outstretched, we reach our hands toward our toes, sometimes getting there (on good days when we've already stretched and feel flexible) and sometimes not. As our hands move toward our toes, our head moves downward in the direction of our knees, sometimes getting there, most of the times not. But, we can all reach and stretch to whatever degree we can, and we can all breath in to RELAX INTO the stretch. In doing so we might feel the breath of life entering our lungs, blood, organs, bones, cells...then we may begin to understand and experience being surrounded and interpenetrated by LOVE. This posture is one of many yoga asanas that are designed to bring health to the body's vehicle. By extension, we can add to this hatha yoga asanas the prana of the breath of life, consciously inhaling that which sustains us, feeling into the incoming breath and relax...

SNAKING AROUND The head of the line keeps moving, curving, snaking... swallowing its tail Free drawing shapes that begin with "lines" often turn into mandalas of some sort, but sometimes they emerge as a certain kind of thing...the head of the line transforms into some recognizable thing...the afternoon of October 3rd, sitting on a sheltered picnic bench at Bennett's Creek Park in Suffolk, Virginia, across from my wife and 16-year old son who were also drawing, i was fooling around with some colors, starting with black sperm like shapes, surrounded by orange, then green-bluish shapes surrounding the orange and also connected the spermatozoa, then a final layer of purple that surrounded the whole thing...the final result reminded me of a snake, moving, curving, and getting ready to swallow its own tail--a mythic symbol of infinity, see Dawn Baumann Brunke's Awakening the ancient power of snake: Transformation, healing, and enlightenment for more.  Take a long, loving,...

THE BIG TO DO The big to do list I tackle it with gusto It NEVER gets done In college i discovered a book called, How to get control of your time and your life by Alan Laiken. It helped me set goals, make lists, prioritize tasks, and get things done in the world. All this was necessary to organize and orchestrate an external life in the "real world."  An unfortunate side effect of this productivity, is i still, 40 years later, am making lists, setting priorities, and trying to accomplish everything on my to do list. With each thing i accomplish it seems that one or two more things get added to the list, thus, i never finish the "to do" list. How does this leave one feeling when you can never get to the end, never reach the goal, never breathe easy, never feeling completely relaxed, never done. We don't need to give up our goals, priorities, and lists of things to do. We simply need to reframe them (See Paul Watzlawick et. al.'s book Change: Principles of p...