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

CIRCLING circling inside circles mesmerizing me to be a flower caught up going around in circles...mesmerizing me in the loopiness of the pattern...only in time do i realize part of me morphed into a flower observe any repetitive behavioral pattern of yours over the course of time...identify what flower you've become...is it beautiful, does it serve you, help others?                                  

EFFORTLESSLY the color you think becomes the color you see so effortlessly something mesmerizes me when i look at the image below...the squares and triangles join in dynamic ways that bring me into a spiraling feeling...of colors... the blending of colors provides an opportunity for a simple experiment...think about one of the colors in the image (violet, green, red, or purple), and while holding the color in your mind, softly gaze at the image, what do you see?  do you not see the color you're thinking about...does the color stand out as the figure against the ground of the other colors... for fun, switch to thinking about another color and see what happens... similarly, when we use words, our perceptual filters bring whatever meanings/emotions/experiences connected to that word into sharper focus as a figure against the ground of the rest of our life... AND, we get to CHOOSE how we want to color our world.  

PERTLE TURSON person or turtle if both, what shall we name it? pertle or terson? sometimes when i create mandalas, i flow with the instrument without a intent to create a specific "thing"...at the end of creating, i step back and gaze, most often i recognize something...in the mandala below, i saw a person first, and then a turtle...so which is it, a person or a turtle...setting up an either/or question like this creates a forced choice, but it need not be so...it can be "both/and"...it is person and turtle, a pertle or turson (combining parts of both words)...this creative process reminds me of the old Greek idea of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis...taking two different things and combining them into a synthesis. what decision have you constructed as an either/or proposition...can you step back, gain some perspective, and see the situation as both/and rather than either/or...perhaps a synthesis of the best of both options, creating a third integrative option.

TORNADOES vibrations blowing  pushing the purple half-moons whipping up tornadoes at the time of the haiku writing, the fall semester had just begun...VIBRATIONS blowing from all fronts...student advisees, issues with classes, committee assignments, research revisions for an article, getting into the academic routine...these vibes are PUSHING the beautiful and fragile purple half-moon ideas and activities that have bloomed in late spring and summer, WHIPPING up emotional tornadoes within me... are there vibrations in your life that blow you off course, off of the intuitive purple moon vibes, whipping up tornadoes (or perhaps smaller "dust devils") within you? if so, what are you doing about it? my ideal, that slowly deteriorates over the course of the semester with more and more tasks piled on my plate, is to integrate some of the purple moon vibes into my daily routine so that i don't loose the precious purple moon beams that allow the extraordinary flowers of life to bl...