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...

RIBBONS ribbons of color emerging from the center  of life, light, and love beginning with crisscrossing lines, deepening the lines, shading the lines, allowing the colors to emerge as ribbons...dynamic, dancing, turning, twisting, and blowing in the breeze of the spirit...embedded and evolving from the center point of life, light, and love...three core spiritual values that foster meaning, significance, and purpose. when contemplatively gazing (a long, loving, leisurely look) at the center of your life, what do you find...feel the depth of life, light, and love...let this life, light, and love flow into the outer regions of your being as dancing ribbons of multi colors...as the poet Ric Maston says, "let it be a dance we do"!

PINBALL WIZARDRY spherical eyeballs bumping into each other pinball wizardry how many eyeballs can you see...why are they bumping, touching, grinding, nudging each other...something magical in this pinball wizardry is happening eyeballs provide different perspectives...cover one eye and look...what do you see...cover the other eye and look out, different, yes...imagine another pair of eyeballs looking out at the "same scene" with all the history, memories, habits, beliefs, and expectations attached to those eyes...eyes beams bounce, reflect, and merge into each other...pinball magic...who/what wizard orchestrates this music and dance?

ORBS spiraling inward cellular orbs following  each other homeward might the orbs symbolize each of our days...the outermost our early life and the innermost our later life...traveling ever inward to the center of our being, consciousness, existence... how does the experience of your life, as measured by increments of "sunrise to sunset', a string of days, FEEL...are the increments-flow-movement linear, circular, triangular...where are the days moving to or perhaps there is no sense of movement...what might you do to better understand the space and time between sunrise and sunset...consider that to change your life, the quality of the day must change...what small change might you make TODAY to feel more peace, love, and/or joy?

WEB web of connections inside and outside they pulse reaching into space like a spider web, yes? need a time dimension to display the idea of "pulsing"...all of the tips are yellow circles reaching out into space...ready to touch and make new connections who makes up the web of your relationships...galaxies, stars, planets, sun, moon, people, animals, reptiles, birds, water creatures, insects, elementals, fungi... what parts of you reaching out to touch and connect with others? how might you make these connections more loving and kind?

BLUE TRIANGLE following the blue triangle at the ocean she mesmerizes the blue triangle can symbolize many things...the semi-triangular shape of parts of the bay or body of water, the bottoms of bathing suits at the beach, parts of the sky cropped by tree tops... where are the triangles in your life...relationships, issues, problems, things...how might you bring the spirit of blue (cosmic consciousness) into the triangles to enlighten and inform them?

BUTTERFLY complementary colors align in circles center butterfly butterflies are transformative creatures...starting on the ground as earthbound caterpillars...sealing themselves in cocoons where they dissolve into a goo with some special message in their genetic code that allows them to transform into a winged creature that is no longer earthbound--AMAZING! Many butterflies have a complementary winged pattern, often with circles as in the image. can we find the circular patterns in our lives that serve as transformative codes, transforming our earthbound caterpillic goo into a winged angelic creature that flies through the heavens...that is the challenge of this mandala.