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

SEIZA SUNSET sitting in seiza sunset...waves crash...wind blowing consciousness expands at First Landing State Park on the Chesapeake Bay beach off the main boardwalk, to the right, past the dunes, looking at the pelicans perched on the posts that go out to sea...here is where i sit in seiza facing the sunset each day during our one week family vacation...i see colors, feel the vibration of the sun setting, hear waves crashing, the sucking, pulling sound of dissipated waves returning to the ocean, wind blows over my naked arms and back, tosseling my hair out of place across my eyes, feeling sand beneath my legs and buttocks grounds me to earth...senses on fire but not ablaze...consciousness EXPANDS, i become these things, merge, becoming each other...the feeling-state comes and goes...i don't know that i'd want it to be a permanent state as it would be hard to function in everyday life. sit yourself comfortably on the ground (or in a chair) with your bare feet touching the eart...

GREEN HEADS little greenish heads undulating up and down pools of vibration the rhythmic up and down movement feels like a roller coaster or perhaps a musical note traveling through time, returning in the semi-circular journey back to the refrain...the green heads symbolize newness, a change of pace, a different and creative way of doing things. take any part of the insights and turn it into a practice for yourself! for instance, the green newness can transform an old habit...this can be as simple as lifting the container to fill the coffee pot 6 inches higher and slowly pouring the water into the pot...observe the spiraling waterfall effect of the water...it's so beautiful, undulating, moving musically, listen to the sound...the water will soon be brewed into a dark colored coffee, and this liquid will enliven you from the inside, eventually the remains that you don't need will excrete from your body and return to the earth (if you compost your urine for the plants like i do.....

PEACE TREE outside of my home there is a place i go to i call it peace tree in the backyard of our modest home is a trailer that i've converted into a place where i can sit and pray/meditate, a place surrounded by all the books i've read over my lifetime of 63 years, a place that holds quiet, solitude, privacy, a place of peace where i can untether myself and just BE with the Divine... i wanted to create/find a symbol of this place, and after several sketches of designs, i came up with the top three...a heart with spirals encompassing the word peace, two beings nose to nose that are intertwined in a heart with peace at the center, and a tree rooted in the ground of peace with three branches lifted toward the heavens... i chose the peace tree as my symbol and painted it on the door to the trailer...each day tracing the word peace and the lines of the tree with my fingers, reminding myself, the key to entering this place is peace. do you have a place of quiet and solitude where y...

HAND SPIRALS from the silver point a hand spirals out in search  spheric golden orb sometimes it feels like we move round and round in a search for some thing...the silver hand metaphorically spiraling round, searching, trying to connect with some thing, and after many loops, the silver hand finds the golden orb, grasping it, what will happen next? what has you feeling like you've been going in circles...what are you searching for...how will you know when you've found it? will you grasp and attempt to control? will you hold it gently in your palm, contemplating that which you've found? will you bob it up and down playfully? what magic does the golden orb hold for you?