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

SEASONS new birth in springtime grow and produce in summer fall brings freedom...death! the leaves and colors represent transitions from birth to death in the leaf and circle imagery below...the analogy for humans is: we are born, we grow, we flourish (including, usually, producing offspring), and then we fade from one kind of active life to harvesting our wisdom and passing it on to the next generation, hopefully before we die... there are many possible scenarios after death including reincarnation, heaven, merging with universal consciousness and so forth, but all of us here and now have this one life to live, grow, produce, pass on our wisdom, and hopefully, with dignity, transition to whatever awaits us.   the practice for "seasons" will depend on what season of life one is "in," although there are no clear age markers as transitions...for those in childhood and teenage years, finding our identity and purpose is paramount...adult years can be filled with meaning...

GOLDEN TREE golden tree of life rooted in flowing water yielding purple fruit i've drawn this type of tree since i was a little boy, and in my middle years i added a flowing stream near its roots to my drawing, and then in my later years, i've added fruit to the tree drawings... sometimes it takes a lifetime for a tree or plant to bear fruit...i tend two varieties of hardy kiwi vines, and neither has ever flowered in the last decade...i've transplanted the male and female variety to a new location 3 years ago, and the self-pollinating variety i transplanted four years ago--both show good vine growth but neither has flowered...perhaps they have not reached maturity, or maybe they are missing some vital nutrient that the "flowing water" would provide...hopefully, in time, they will bear fruit...in the meantime, i cultivate patience with myself and with my inner and outer gardens. we all are have gifts/talents/skills that often take time to bear fruit in our lives......

PUREST WHITE LIGHT circling colors leading into a vortex  of purest white light From the purest white light, refracted, all the colors of the rainbow emerge, and these are only the colors in the visible spectrum that we as humans can see--other beings, like insects, bees for instance, can see "landing patterns" on flowers, like the morning glory, that remain invisible to us as humans. Metaphorically, as a practice, we might consider different circumstances in life (e.g., a relationship, job, education, book, song, poetry, place in nature, etc) as the "white light" that opens to multi-colored life lessons.  Take one of your favorite songs, and test out this hypothesis right now...does not a moments reflection yield evidence many life lessons that this one favorite song has opened for you, particularly if you've lived with this song for many years? Similarly, our relationships with other people, nature, and the divine can open us to multi-colored truths.

PINK , RED , AND BLACK       pink, red, and black shapes different but something the same 3 cute bikinis at first landing state park in Virginia Beach, Virginia, at the Chesapeake Bay, there are many kinds of people in the summer time clothed in many colors and kinds of attire...here i note the color differences between pink, red, and black, and the corresponding different shapes...the outer geometric shapes appear different, but on closer inspection, there are similarities within the shapes, e.g., the asterisk star representing the naval chakra, the downward pointed isosceles triangle representing the root chakra... practice: look for beauty in the human form, and beauty in colors and shapes of clothing that adorn the form...can we see below the forms to the inner beauty in all of them?