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  K A L E I D O S C O P I N G colored squares align by 4 triangles cornered 1 kaleidoscope kaleidoscopes are usually circular shaped, but in this haiku i began in the middle of the image below with squares and kept building outward with more squares of different colors, ending in a pattern that seemed reminiscent of the kaledioscope i remember looking into as a child...the 4 green triangles (half squares) added to the 4 corners gives a feeling of dynamic motion, the changing patterns of the kaleidoscope, hence the title   " K A L E I D O S C O P I N G ." we only are conscious of a small part of our processing ability, some 50 bits of information per second, but we are actually processing over a million bits of information per second according to Willian Bengston...consider digesting, breathing, heartbeat, nerve impulses, respiration, listening, talking, movement, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting--even the air, seeing...ecopsychologist Michael Cohen posits 50-some sens...

  WHO IS THIS BEING? starting with 3 hearts adding circles, ears, and eyes who is this being? The first heart is centered in the figure while the other 2 hearts are upside down and joined to the right and left sides of the first heart...orange circles appear at the bottom while green ears connect atop the head, and black eyes appear just above the ear line inside the top halves of the first heart...there is s light pinkish but masculine shaped nose...some purple shading frames the mid to bottom outside parts of the figure. Is the being human, alien, e.t., a costumed teenager listening to music with headphones, and/or... imagination creates being. In beginning with 3 hearts, i had no intention of creating a "being"...the figure just "emerged" toward the end of the sketching with colored pencils...if we give our imagination a little space/room to run free, and follow and trust the process, something meaningful will unfold, something that wants to incarnate will be bor...

HEALING ENERGY energy flows from heart, arm, hands, other person and back to the heart William Bengston describes an energy flow during the process of healing in his book The Energy Cure . The energy begins inside the healer, presumably near the heart area, and flows out down the left arm and palm and into the other person through the hands in contact with the other person's body. The energy carries information for healing whatever the issue might be, and the energy returns to the healer via their right palm and hand, which is also in bodily contact with the person being healed, and continues up the right arm and presumably returns to the heart. This is a energy-information cycle that repeats at a great speed, perhaps faster than light (like the speed of thought) for the duration of the healing session. Many case studies for human healing are described by Bengson in his book, and 10 laboratory studies of healing mice of cancer are described. Bengson has trained others in his heali...

 SHELL begin with 1 dot add 44 lines & curves living, breathing SHELL All things have their beginning with ONE.  From this single point of origin there are an infinite possibility of forms. In this haiku, lines and curves were added to the single dot, eventually forming what appeared as a living breathing sea shell. I did not intentionally set out to create a sea shell . I just began with a dot and started monkeying around, slowly something began to emerge, but i wasn't sure what, until near the end, it seemed the shape of a real living breathing sea shell .  Many times in life we go round in circles, chasing our tails like dogs sometimes do. This is okay for a game, for fun, but it's not a meaningful way to be and live in the long run. At some point, we need to evolve, make a move out of our cycle to create a point of origin for something new to develop. Often we don't know where to go from this point, only that we are on the path and travel with an loving intention....

HER CIRCLES Circular Colors with spiral arms spinning round moving inside HER Circle is the theme:  circle of colors,  circling spiral arms,  circle spinning,  circular movement inside. Multiple interpretations are possible:  multiple colored chakra centers inside her are spinning spirals,  one energy center is filled with many colors all spinning round,  the seed of life growing and spinning inside her circular womb... The perceptual move here is:  to see with circular eyes ,  see the circled colors all round us,  and perhaps more importantly,  to feel the different colored arms circling inside of us ,  our organs, cells, and blood...    

  ENFOLDED IN LOVE Seated, hands touch toes Head down to knees, breathing in... Surrounded by LOVE Sitting on the floor with legs outstretched, we reach our hands toward our toes, sometimes getting there (on good days when we've already stretched and feel flexible) and sometimes not. As our hands move toward our toes, our head moves downward in the direction of our knees, sometimes getting there, most of the times not. But, we can all reach and stretch to whatever degree we can, and we can all breath in to RELAX INTO the stretch. In doing so we might feel the breath of life entering our lungs, blood, organs, bones, cells...then we may begin to understand and experience being surrounded and interpenetrated by LOVE. This posture is one of many yoga asanas that are designed to bring health to the body's vehicle. By extension, we can add to this hatha yoga asanas the prana of the breath of life, consciously inhaling that which sustains us, feeling into the incoming breath and relax...

SNAKING AROUND The head of the line keeps moving, curving, snaking... swallowing its tail Free drawing shapes that begin with "lines" often turn into mandalas of some sort, but sometimes they emerge as a certain kind of thing...the head of the line transforms into some recognizable thing...the afternoon of October 3rd, sitting on a sheltered picnic bench at Bennett's Creek Park in Suffolk, Virginia, across from my wife and 16-year old son who were also drawing, i was fooling around with some colors, starting with black sperm like shapes, surrounded by orange, then green-bluish shapes surrounding the orange and also connected the spermatozoa, then a final layer of purple that surrounded the whole thing...the final result reminded me of a snake, moving, curving, and getting ready to swallow its own tail--a mythic symbol of infinity, see Dawn Baumann Brunke's Awakening the ancient power of snake: Transformation, healing, and enlightenment for more.  Take a long, loving,...

THE BIG TO DO The big to do list I tackle it with gusto It NEVER gets done In college i discovered a book called, How to get control of your time and your life by Alan Laiken. It helped me set goals, make lists, prioritize tasks, and get things done in the world. All this was necessary to organize and orchestrate an external life in the "real world."  An unfortunate side effect of this productivity, is i still, 40 years later, am making lists, setting priorities, and trying to accomplish everything on my to do list. With each thing i accomplish it seems that one or two more things get added to the list, thus, i never finish the "to do" list. How does this leave one feeling when you can never get to the end, never reach the goal, never breathe easy, never feeling completely relaxed, never done. We don't need to give up our goals, priorities, and lists of things to do. We simply need to reframe them (See Paul Watzlawick et. al.'s book Change: Principles of p...

  SILVER SPARKLES in morning sunlight... wind on silver threads sparkle spider jazz music While gazing toward the sun in a garden area, sparkles of light bounced like musical notes on a thin sliver web...now drifting in a light breeze...the web and notes seemed to "phase" in and out of existence, here a moment, playing a few notes, then vanishing, then reappearing...over and over, such a delight to be a part of, to dance with the spider's creation. Might there be moments in our lives where we are prompted, inspired, or propelled by the winds of life to use our gifts to sparkle for a time, then recede into the background, and when the time is right, to sparkle again.  What are your gifts? What winds of life could help you make your gift sparkle with golden sunlight?  

BEGINNING HAIKU image...thought...feeling blending and integrating... birthing the haiku we start at the beginning of the poetic process for the first haiku on a blog about haikus... something from life rapts our attention...an image, thought, and/or feeling... as we sit, play, & observe the ideas, turning them round, blending, integrating... we find that they begin to coalesce into a haiku...the birth of a haiku! 15, 27, 35 the above sequence of numbers is poetry code for HAIKU translated:  1=1st line, 5=5 syllables (15=1st line of 5 syllables in the haiku form) 2=2nd line, 7=7 syllables (27=2nd line of 7 syllables in the haiku) 3=3rd line, 5=5syllables (35=3rd line of 5 syllables in the haiku)