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

ANGLES & CURVES hard angular shapes  unite with curvy 8 shapes creating new life hard angles associate with yang, eagle, and power while curvy 8's tend toward yin, condor, Sophia wisdom; both need to unite/connect for creating new life, literally (as in a new human being) and figuratively (as in creative art)...with both yin and yang we fly, while missing either we constrict our mobility. what dream are you realizing? what are the yang parts of the dream? what are the yin parts? how can you connect the yin and yang parts of your dream in a personal image and birth it inside of you, giving it wings to fly?  

STAR single lines of light intersecting each other birthing a grand star how is it that the lines of our lives, perhaps each line being a day/night in our lives, crisscross to create something grand (the star) that cannot be seen within the perspective a  single day/night, but is conceived over the course of time within a wider perspective? when i began this image, i didn't see a grand star, rather could see and enjoy the FEELING of crisscrossing different colored lines...only well into the image did the emergence of a grad star come into being and became more visible with each additional line.  Let us enjoy making  the lines of life, knowing that, in this process, something wonderful is conceived, birthed, created, brought into being.

6 LAZY EIGHTS 6 infinities middles at center saying we are connected bright yellow and orange pop out from the middle of this mandalla...accents of green, violet, and blue abound...circumscribed by rosy cloud like swirls...feeling positive feminine energy pouring out from the inner pattern of six infinities interconnected at their center...words cannot adequately describe the impressions received when gazing upon thes image. what 6 infinities represent your life, e.g., body, mind, spirit, emotions, relationships, and intuition is one possible set of 6 infinities, each spinning in/out in a swirling motion, all connected at the center of their lazy eights...how might you enter the vortex of these infinities to explore/discover?

2 MUCH 2 DO The big to do list I tackled it with gusto it NEVER gets done there is 2 much 2 do 2-day...feeling like i can't catch up but also feel compelled 2 move 4-ward...2 make the list bigger generates excitement and engenders feelings of importance, and the list becomes unwieldly, unmanageable...i secretly wish i could finish crossing everything off the list, but i don't really expect 2 finishm and there is satisfaction in hacking away at it, watching it dwindle, part of the enjoying the process/journey...and yet, it never ends (maybe i don't want it to end, like i don't want to die)...the list and i never get to 0. 2 practices: make a list of EVERYTHING you want to do, prioritize, do them in the order of priority...you'll never finish, are you okay with that, can you enjoy the process/journey?  make another list of EVERYTHING you need, prioritize, do them in the order of priority...you may actually finish, what would you do if you did finish...transcend? 

ODDITY What is that odd thing? plant? insect? animal? face? of course...abstract art! sometimes we don't know what something is AND we try guessing anyway because "we want to know"...for me, there is endless desire to know things, desperately wanting to understand, on some level seeking knowledge/wisdom...partly due to native curiosity, partly a need for feeling as if i am in control when in fact, for many things in life, i'm not in control! so when faced with mystery, instead of enjoying and savoring, i often jump to a judgmental label as in calling this curiously curvy image "abstract art." practice refraining from labeling things/people/issues we don't understand and attempt to relish the mystery and uncertainty (at least for a short time), then go ahead and label it if it makes you feel better!

PSYCHEDELIC SHAMROCK trinity clover a psychedelic shamrock make your 3 wishes! ordinary things from nature rise in the images of consciousness and can take magical form in colorful art ... this shamrock holds the traditional trinity clover form and it has evolved into a gigantic tree with leaves opening in spiral flowing colors, rendering its psychedelic properties...if you look deeply, you will see its magic and can make 3 wishes! this practice can be as simple as "seeing the shamrock" and making 3 wishes...the wishes will connect you with your heart's desires... a more challenging practice is to see the magic in all of nature, including other people, what if we could see into the psychedelic nature of micro-organisms, plants, animals, people, galaxies, how would our interactions with them change?  

PULSING VEINS from the center star come the petals all around each with pulsing veins the star evolved in the creation of the image which began as a series of crisscrossing lines that shaped the petals...perhaps as we crisscross the days and weeks of our lives, patterns emerge in our habits, relationships, and personality...all coming from an ever brightening center sending divine pulsing energy into our veins. do you feel the pulse of life? where do you feel it most? the least? what can you do connect with your center and stimulate the increase of pulsations that nourish your life?  

INTERWEAVING NEW BEING silver and golden penetrate and interweave in a new being the image below stimulates many thoughts/emotions: sacred geometry, ancient Asian, circling, penetrating, and especially the idea of interweaving ... as we live our lives we leave trails, energetic footprints...consider all the people that you've ever met, all the people that you've ever seen, all the places that you've ever been...some part of you still exists there, the whole universe and everything in it seems to be interwoven in space/time, interconnected, and these connections keep growing as we live our lives, increasing in density and connectivity like a neural network or like underground fungi (see Merlin Sheldrake's great work Entangled Life ) that we don't normally see except when a mushroom pops up...if we have the consciousness to step back and see a bigger picture, then we can see the beauty and wonder of the shapes and connections we are creating as we live our lives...th...

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......