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

YIN & YANG yang rises upward to meet the yin descending  together they shine! the benza quality of the diamond thunderbolt of yang rising is apparent at the bottom of the figure while the receptive quality of yin descending is ready to receive...eventually the seed of yang meets the egg of yin and a flash of bright light signals the beginning of new life...all three shine for an instant! this image is a metaphor for much of life...there are our intentions, efforts, plans, attempts to manifest, learn, heal, orchestrate some experience, reaching out, AND there is the reception of these efforts by others, nature, and the divine feminine...sometimes we are invited in, given support, accepted, nurtured in our efforts, and our plans come to fruition....i note that in Hinduism, these symbols are often depicted as yoni representing the female genitals and Shakti, and lingam representing the male genitals and Shiva. look for opportunities where the divine feminine is inviting you in, ...

THROUGHLY FEMALE shaped like a tear drop folded layers leading in throughly female the layers of tear dropped colors, encircling each other, enfolded, leading in, surrounded by curly green swirls and toped by a single red tear drop is "throughly female"--how wonderous and beautiful, so many layers of meaning and emotion within. what kinds of emotions come to mind as you contemplate the tear dropped shapes of folded layers that lead in? what kinds of folded layers are leading you into life? into what are you being invited and lead into? what will happen when you follow this leading? what is the ultimate destination? what do you hope to experience and learn? 

GENTLY TOUCHING among the colored shapes gently touching edges there is harmony beginning at the center with a square and lines running through it to form triangles which morphed into a larger square and more polygonish figures, followed by an array of colors...i had no idea where this was going, and in the end, looking at the whole, it seems the edges are gently touching each other, producing a feeling of harmony. perhaps in our everyday activities, the individual things we do seem isolated, but in looking back over a stretch of time during the day, we may find that the activities are gently touching, yielding a harmonious whole, a complete day. one way we can practice looking for harmony among the many activities of our lives is at the end of the day, briefly reviewing the events of the day, perhaps finding synchronicities that we may not have not noticed had we not taken the time to reflect on our many lines running through the squares of life.

PINE BARK brown, olive, and orange snaking and intertwining fall bark of pine tree seen with the eyes of contemplation, many things emerge from fall pine bark...the colors, the pattern of intertwining scales of bark, and the snaking idea came to me after seeing a black rat snake methodically slither up the bark of a pine tree...there is also the rough feel of the bark, the scent of the pine in the air around the bark, and the associations one makes with the colors: brown earth, olive leaves, orange sunset... ONE MOMENT...that's all it takes for reality to morph into a host of many splendid things...look with soft eyes and let go...see what emerges...try with things in the natural world.