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

 DIAMOND STARE diamonds on her back coiling into a spiral starring into me The coiling of the purple diamond shapes on the back of this female snake end at her head with red sparkling diamonds that seem to stare into me when i gaze with soft eyes. She is surrounded by brown earth yet at the center where her head rests is a lively green patch of grass, symbolizing earth and plant, hard and soft, yang and ying. ANYTHING can become the focus of a " diamond stare "...a contemplative gaze that begins on the rim of the object of focus (the ground in Gestalt terms) and moves toward the center (the figure in Gestalt) where one may experience the feeling of being starred at (see Rupert Sheldrake's book The Sense of Being Stared At ), and/or the feeling of mutual gaze (a resonant connection). As we are gazed upon, perhaps we are in some sense "known," and the wisdom of the "other" comes into us.

  INNER WORKINGS      Enter the Chamber Undergo Transformation Exit Born Again The entry door invites us to "come in." Into the black box of an unknown process that will transform us...uncertainty, courage, fear, worry, concern, hope...all of these feelings abound when entering the door, crossing the threshold, into the unseen inner workings of a process that will change us. At the start, we cannot say how long we will be in the process, along the journey, traveling and experiencing life.  At some point, we will exit through another door inviting us to "go out," to leave the now more familiar, and enter another place/space/time. Through this exit door, we can look back, perceiving how we are transformed , in a spiritual sense " re born again. " Perhaps we even have wisdom to share with others, although language is often a poor rendition of the actual experience, but we do what we can with poetic, mysterious, and paradoxical language to provide others wi...

  HIDDEN FIGURE Triangular shapes Reveal the hidden figure Standing at center Often i begin a mandalla type of drawing at the center of the page, developing areas that slowly expand toward the outwarder edges of the paper, not knowing how the final piece will turn out. Gradually, a " hidden figure " revealed itself at the center of the drawing below made of different shaped and colored triangles. Michael Schneider's Beginners guide to contructing the universe describes how triangles are part of a "scared geometry" through which we can create and observe the world. I'm not sure how to interpret the hidden figure  that is revealing itself at the center of the drawing: an African chief standing noble and tall, an Egyptian pharaoh of power and status sitting on a throne, an interdimensional being phrasing into our reality, an angelic being here to provide guidance and comfort... what does the hidden figure reveal for you? Look for the triangular shapes in your ...

CRAZY 8's  Swirling around me Crazy 8's out of control Pull them to CENTER The multicolored figure 8's, off center and swirling, connected to the center by a colored tether, represent an infinity of "areas/ideas" in an individual's life. There are many ways to represent these: mind, body, spirit, or home, work, play, or self, other, nature, and divine, and so forth. In quantum physics, these infinity signs, represented as " crazy 8' s, " might be called "possibility waves or potentialities in the quantum field." Colloquially, we say these are possibility thoughts. When we place our attention/focus on these crazy 8's /waves/thoughts, they break through into our reality and become part of our center. Hence, the image of the intermingled crazy 8's in the center of the image. At center, we can play with them, work with them, add/subtract from them, dissolve them, interweave them...we engage and dance with them in the greater song o...