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

  WEB OF TRIANGLES web of triangles connected with thin threads encircled with green the green circle and threads are inspired by the greenry around me at First Landing State Park near the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in Virginia. The triangles represent trinitarian dynamics of objects in the world: people, plants, animals, insects, micro-organisms...the green web of life. as a practice, imagine yourself standing at the center of your web of life...move out from your center, seeing and feeling into the trinitarian dynamics surrounding you...including  body, elementals, all living things...all interconnected, all in some sense unified and ONE.  

 BLACK , GREEN , ORANGE from the deep dark black comes the green stem and the leaves flower then orange fruit The sequence of colors from the center black , to the middle green , to the outer orange represents the life of a seed in the black of the soil, sprouting and pushing up a stem which turns green with leaves in the sunshine and eventually flowers, fertilizes, and produces orange fruit. So too, we have ideas that begin in the black void of the quantum field, pushing out of the realm of possibilities into some specific line of intent (the stem), which, given the proper nourishment from the soil and sun, will sprout into green leaves (ideas and actions), and these give rise to orange flowers, attracting pollinators (supportive people), that when fertile produce fruit (the outcome, art, love, invention, story...) to make life more wonderful. What ideas do you have lurking below the surface of consciousness in the black void? How might you nurture one idea to give it str...

PLAYFUL CONVERGENCE Converging forces                    vpmbrthomh gptvrd blue and violet color               n;ir smf bop;ry vp;pt playing in the shapes               [;suomh om yjr djs[rd There are many forces in our lives--inside our bodies, minds, and spirits...around our bodies in our immediate environment...people in our household, home, neighborhood, village/city... nature as incarnate in plants, insects, and animals...all of the elements, sunshine, water, earth, and air surrounding and connecting us all!  All of these forces converge inside us moment by moment, changing us (according to the quantum physicists) at a subatomic levels many times in a single second (i can't even fathom that!). We cannot figure it all out. Who can even describe all the mysterious and marvelous biological/chemical processes that happen within us to keep us alive ...

  LIFE-BEING-PRESENCE The great gift of LIFE The great gift of 2 BEINGS Finally...PRESENCE We begin with the most basic question of all: why is there something rather than nothing? How is it that we find ourselves in this great mystery called LIFE ? Life is, and we are, that is, we consciously experience ourselves as a BEING . In considering our being, we also realize that we are utterly interconnected to all life, including all other beings. This connection is what i call a sense of PRESENCE .  In the haiku the allusion is to 2 beings that create a new presence, a new being, but it need not be that...any and all beings create multiple presences all the time!  So there is  LIFE all round, we realize life in our BEING , and we come to feel the connection between life and being as a kind of PRESENCE . The most practical application of this 3-fold dynamic of life, being, and presence is to bask in, enjoy, wonder, and feel the life-being-presence connection through cont...