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

ETERNAL LIFE orbs of color bright connected with triangles king's (queen's) sarcophagus reminded of the Egyptian sarcophagus holding the pharoah's body, but this image displays the colors bright like chakras along the front of the body and fanning out to the sides...dead yet in some sense still alive with light, color, energy, and information. we are invited to contemplate our own death, our resting place...the finitude of life in this realm AND the light, color, energy, and information that we carry now and beyond our physical death, the eternal part of us...how might we cultivate the eternal aspects of our being during our present life on earth? perhaps the practices of meditation, prayer, silence, stillness, and contemplation offer clues...

  CHRISTMAS EVE gold and silver stars formed with pairs of triangles  meet at the window gold and silver are Christmas colors in the United States during December...stars are often associated with the Christ's birth in the nativity stories of the Christian gospels...triangular pairs that form the six sided stars symbolize the star of David in the Hebrew scriptures...all come together when looking with child-like wonder through the window of our soul. when you look up at the night sky, can you still see stars? if so, do they twinkle? can you find without your heart the child-like faith to "wish upon a star"? why not make a wish this very night, upon your star in the night sky...be bold, courageous, brave, and dare to wish for your heart's desire...may it be so...AMEN!  

WATER BEARS Freezing or boiling No need for water or food Water bears survive Water bears (tardigrades) are microscopic organisms that survive (for a limited time) in extreme cold (to 460 degrees fahrenheit) and extreme heat (to 300 degrees fahrenhiet) suspending their metabolism to less that .01 % with water content of 1% of normal, going without water or food for up to 30 years, and then rehydrating, foraging, and reproducing again...they can also withstand cosmic radiation in space with apparently no harmful side effects (all according to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade). We could learn a lot from these little creatures...when to withdraw from harmful conditions, how to relax without eating or drinking...not needing to immediately satisfy our hunger or thirst, and being resilient...after experiencing stressful conditions, making a come back and resuming life's activities.              

DENDRITES patterned lines of 3 interconnected dendrites universal brain patterned lines of 3 are fractals of nature...readily observable in the human body, trees, plants, elementals...interconnected patterns, dendrites within the nervous system, not just in our cerebral, heart, and gut brains, but in the universal brain...indeed, we are interconnected. meditating on interconnections provides strength, a feeling of being bigger than yourself... comfort, security, solace is herein...one way to concretely feel these interconnections is through relationships with others...meditate on the positive contributions of parents, siblings, relatives (include grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, nephews...), teachers (as far back as you can recall to as far as you went/are in school, and then include teachers outside of school, coaches, religious/spiritual individuals, on-line community members, authors of books, movie characters)...by intentionally recalling these people, you bring them i...

HEAD OF THE LINE the head of the line keeps moving, curving, snaking swallowing its tail different lines (green and purple) are "moving", the purple swallows the green, and the green swallows the other shapes, reminding us of the ancient symbol of the circular snake swallowing its own tail...a sign of infinity...in one sense, this moving and swallowing represents the regenerative, renewing, infinite cycle of life, and in another more restricted sense, the endless moving in our lives represents the busyness, eating our own tails in competing to stay at the "head of the line"...we create our own kind of frenzy in ever faster moving that backlashes onto ourselves in destruction. what are you so busy about? what makes you move in a kind of frenzy? is part of this busyness counterproductive in that you're moving so fast you make more mistakes? perhaps we need to let go of the idea of being at the "head of the line", being first, being at the top of the heap...

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!