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, leisurely, look (a definition of contemplation i came across in William McNamara's book The human adventure: The art of contemplative living) at the small swirling things in your life, little centers of energy that push and pull you in different ways...see if they are not in fact connected in some way, and as the snake eats its tail, if those seemingly separate activities do not in fact feed into each other in infinite possible ways. 





 

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