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

ENFOLDED sitting at center  enfolded by pink ovals waiting for green life from the ovules in the hidden part of the ovary, moving outward through the enfolded pink ovals toward the sticky pink branching stigma that attracts, awaits, and captures the anther-produced pollen born on the filaments of the stamen...all a process designed to create and nurture new life... the wonderous process of creating new life from male and female parts of a flower mirrors the birthing of new ideas in the mind what hidden ideas in the unconscious are making their way up through the enfolded ovals in the flower of your mind...can you identify what attracts other ideas into this protected and hidden area...how will you know when the two forces meet and new life is born...what is the accompanying sensation(s) that accompanu new birth...do you feel...a quiver, a flash of warmth, goose bumps, tingles, something else...pay attention to the body's messages that signal new life forming...nurture the environme...

2 CIRCLES from the 2 circles touching and overlapping reality births from the 2 comes the many, from male and female comes new life, from thesis and antithesis comes synthesis...the touching and overlap seems to facilitate new birth(s) at the intersection of the circles, the vortex, the vesica piscis, the mandorla (almond), the portal of new life... consider 2  vital ideas/parts of yourself...meditate on how the parts/ideas overlap, interrelate, connect...open...look/sense the portal of new life emerging...what implications does this have for being and doing?   

FEELERS 1 human being sending feelers everywhere cosmic perception there are a multitude of ways to FEEL...we have the sensory organs to feel touch with skin, sound with ears, sight with eyes, smell with nose, and taste with tongue, AND we also have our sense of intuition from heart and gut which modern science tells us have their own kind of brains...all surrounded by AWARENESS, that magical universal essence of beingness that inhabits our bodies and lives eternally...other traditions/systems identify organs and chakras as places of awareness...whatever their origin, we can send our awareness in and out from our body to feel everywhere imaginable...this is cosmic perception. begin with the 5 senses and see feel each in turn...stretch out your feelers inside (to all of your organs and glands...as many parts of the body as you can) and outside of you, to your immediate and greater surroundings, and even farther using your intuition and imagination...HOW MUCH CAN YOU FEEL? how far can yo...

SQUIGGLES & SCRIBBLES squiggles & scribbles weaving, tangling, waving rushed & hurried mind many small actions on my to do list are squiggles, others seem like half-baked scribbles...together they weave, tangle, wave in and out, creating a chaotic mess...signs of a rushed and hurried mind...Eknath Easwaran, a spiritual teacher at the Blue Mountain Center for Meditation, was fond of saying (paraphrasing), a fast mind is sick, a slow mind sound, and a still mind divine... i often find myself running around, accomplishing many small tasks on my to do list, and then looking back at the end of the day feeling harried from the hurry, wondering where is my focus, what have i really accomplished...is my day just a series of squiggles and scribbles...a "mess"...the result of a rushed, hurried, and fast mind?  yes, some days are like that...at these times, i need to ground to the earth in nature, breath slowly through the nose until i feel calmer, actively appreciate the gi...

SWIRLING swirling in and out twirling rainbow of colors snakish love-making to swirl, twirl, and make love...in and out...rainbow of colors, snaking, intertwining...the love-making need not be (but certainly can be!) physical...the swirl and twirl, the in and out can be reflective of the creative process, the snake like intertwining of ideas touching, embracing, blending to birth something new. Tony Buzan's idea of the "mind map" places one idea at the center of a page and connects other ideas to the central one with a curved colored line denoted by a single word atop the line...then other branches (levels) of the map are connected to these secondary lines/words, adding further detail, again with curved color lines that have a single representative word... meditate on a topic of central concern to you and then create a mind map of swirling, twirling, snakish colors...see what creative ideas emerge from the love-making of ideas.

1 SUNCHOKE from the 1 sunchoke multi-layered leaves spout free to make the berries notice the seeds of the center of the sunchoke resemble the fruit of the berries, and that between the two are multi-layered leaves sprouting free...from our core we branch out our leaves, ideally free flowing, that in time, produce the berries that then become seeds again. what seeds can you intentionally plant today, and how will you cultivate them in the coming days to ensure the best support to bring them to fruition, and when they fruit, who will you share them with?

ENERGY BODY energy body stimulate all of the oints tingly orgasm in Sundari's book, Liberation into orgasm: Through pleasure beyond pleasure , she makes the case that any pleasure can become orgasmic, and in doing so, the pleasure broadens our perspective of orgasm, from the narrow confines of sexuality to embrace all of life...this is compatible with the image of stimulating all of the points in our energy body, activating a body wide tingly orgasm without reference to specific genetalia pleasure.  as a practice, intentionally, mindfully engage in little bodily pleasures by FEELING into them...for example, steam on the face from a coffe pot or tea kettle...the warmth of spray from a shower followed by the refeshing stimulation of turning the temperature to cool/cold (like being under a waterfall)...tingling sensations of sun on bare skin...a mild breeze playing in one's hair...the sound of a violin, cello, guitar, flute, sax, and/or drums reverberating inside the body...the rh...

CLARION CALL  discoverable searchable, readable, free all accessible it is a gift (image 1)...a rose in bloom (image 2)...both female and spiritual (image 3)...circular and multi-colored (image 4)...it is also represented in all of the words in the hiku...it is OA (open access)...this is a clarion call...clear, strong, and requiring action. i acted on this clarion call by creating an open access digital book called,  "Listening to the SONG of Life"  available for free as of 2025 at: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/communication_books/31.   it is my hope is that others will also answer the clarion call of creating open access knowledge in the form of free downloadable (or at least viewable) resources for others fin whatever form makes sense to their unique gifts/talents/skills: art, dance, music, theatre, comics, short films, writings like poetry, novels, self-help books, practical skills, informational videos, blogs, vblogs, audios, podcasts, research papers/projects,...

1 DOT starting with 1 dot coalesing they unite swirling in the 1 two senses of "1" are represented in the image...the 1 dot at the far left (the beginning, the one that starts it all...one idea, one person, one big bang) and the 1 at the far right (the end, the culmination, the combination of many 1's, the unification of the many into 1)...how is it that from the 1 comes the many...as a Taoist saying (paraphrased) expresses it...from the 1 come the 10,000 things. practice...take care what starting point (thought, belief, motivation) you begin with in any undertaking f or in it contains the seeds of everything else that follows...reflect on where your thoughts originate...work backwards, for fun, from the action to the seed thought that led to the action...try this backward investigation for several actions and several thoughts, and see if they lead back to the 1...this 1 has a powerful influence in your life.

TAG 6 swirling colors bending, bumping, running around playing tag...you're it! perhaps when you were growing up, you played a game called "tag"...one person is "it" and chases the other playmates, trying to touch (tag) them...once tagged, that person is "it" and chases others, trying to tag them, and so on until (in my day) Mom called for dinner...it's great fun with lots of people...in the image, there are 6 swirling colors intertwined playing tag...any group or team of people might play a similar game of tag...some examples: in a circle group with a talking stick, the person holding the stick is "it" and says their "peace" before tagging (handing the stick to) the next person in team sports like soccer, basketball, or football, the one with the ball is "it" until they are tagged with the ball (passing the ball), someone taking the ball away, scoring a goal, or being tackled in football in a jazz band, different memb...