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

COL ORED BA LLS  colored balls spinning  inward, outward, with each breath wheels of chakras for our entire lives, we breath,...in and out...about 6-12 times a minute, depending on our circumstances and mind-body connection...ancient wisdom suggests that chakras are energy vortexes that spin throughout our bodies...here the chakras are depicted as colored balls...continuously changing, adjusting, balancing...our breath can assist or crack this healthy balancing of energies. practice: note how you're feeling on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being a state of optimal well-being...then observe yourself while taking 3 conscious breaths seated or standing comfortably with eyes closed...inhale to whatever count feels comfortable and exhale about twice as long...check in with yourself at the end of the 3 breath cycle...re-evaluate on the 0-10 well being scale...compare this number with the first number...did the conscious breathing nudge you in the direction of well-being (a higher number...

10 SHADES 10 shades of color bluish greenish zigzagging a door...a portal one color covers the canvas, followed by another, and another, until there are 10 shades of color in all, overlapping, blending, integrating...unknown to me until the end of the sketching appeared a door...eventually we will step through the portal into another world. as we live each decade of our lives, we can think of them as colors, marking the places, peoples, ideas, and things with our energy, our particular shade of color...these shades overlap with each decade, combining to eventually form (unknown to us in the living of each decade) a doorway, a portal that at death, we transition through to another world/dimension/state of being. i did not start out intentionally trying to create a doorway, yet it came to be in time through the shading of different overlapping colors, in the living of a life...what colors are you drawn to, what kind of life are you creating, is there a doorway/portal to "something e...

DANCING BALL OF LIGHT let us be dancing connected to the great ball love, light, energy for part of my morning prayer, i envision my feet in the sand at the edge of the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, holding hands with my family/tribe...all of us dancing, singing, connected to the great ball of love, light, and energy at sunrise, in a safe space outdoors, connect bare feet to the earth and imagine, with your hands outstretched at both sides, holding hands with those you love...visualize your family/tribe dancing on the great ball of the earth invigorated with sunlight...sing up the sun...feel the love and light in each other and all around.

SPHERES amid the gold spheres a pattern reveals itself support...compassion the gold spheres form a linear trajectory from the lower left of the image below to the upper right, growing in size with each iteration forward in time...the spheres are supported from above and below by other colored spheres...holding a trajectory with compassion who supports your life trajectory with compassion (empathy and action)? who's life trajectory can you support with compassion? focus on one person, and one small act of compassion that takes less than 5 mins. to complete...act within the next hour if you can, for sure within the next 24 hours...how do you feel...how did they feel...perhaps this could be the beginning of a virtuous trajectory...  

JUXTAPOSITION juxtaposition squares, circles, and triangles somehow it all fits all of the parts of our lives are in relation to one another...juxtaposed, in ever changing system states of juxtaposition...of all shapes, sizes, textures, colors, smells...and remarkably, somehow all the parts fit together into this thing called life. what are the most important "parts" of your life...how do they fit in relation to one another..what is your current system state of juxtaposition...if part of your system state is not the way you would like it to be, then choose one small act of 5 mins or less that could nudge you closer to the system state you would like to be in, and complete the act within the next hour.

2B1 the 2 become 1 touch, penetrate, and receive sperm meets egg the basis of continued human life in every generation is a story beginnig with touch...sperm penetrating and egg receiving...a magic spark and new human life begins its evolutionary course/destiny/purpose...this basic process is a metaphor for many things in life, e.g., two ideas meeting and a third new idea is born... practices:  1.give thanks to your biological mother and father for the gift of life that is YOU!  2.take any two ideas and play with putting them together in different ways...does any new creation evolve from the juxtapositions?  

TREEHUMAN rooted in the ground up through the solar plexus divine blossoms grow the tree provides rich symbolic meaning for our humanity as it (and we) reaches down, rooted in mother earth, bringing up the nutrients we need to live and sharing nutrients with nearby plants through the mycelia, and simultaneously reaching up, toward father sky, extending out to all beings branches and leaves with divine blossoms of love. find a tree near the place you live and spend some time in contact with the tree...introduce yourself, and if you feel comfortable, hug the tree or just place an open palm against its trunk, wait, feel, listen...what tree wisdom is there for cultivating your divine blossoms to share with the world?                                        

S O N G Listening 2 the self, others, nature, and God the whole SONG of Life SONG is an acronym in the phrase, "The SONG of Life" which references the longer phrase, "listening to the SONG of life." In the SONG acronym, S stands for SELF, O represents OTHERS (primarily other human beings), N signifies NATURE (the natural world other than humans), and G is GOD/GODDRESS, or more broadly the DIVINE (the highest ideal we can conceive of). These 4 contexts comprise much of the life/energy systems that we live and interact with.  For practice, find a time/place of relative quiet, preferable outside in the natural world, where you can tune/listen to each of the 4 SONG contexts for 1-3 minutes each, perhaps recording something in a journal (a word, phrase, image, idea) for each part of the SONG. Try this at least 3x in one week, and allow for a final meditation to integrate/synthesize everything you noticed/learned...what message(s) are trying to break through for you...wha...

SYMBOLIC CAPTURE searching 4 a sign self, others, nature, divine symbolic capture playing around with symbols to capture the "SONG of Life" sign that includes the contexts of self, others, nature, and the divine...the searching involves many attempts but none that integrate all 4 signs in an obvious and meaningful way...how does one symbolize self? others? nature? divine? and how does one integrate all 4 while retaining the identies of each in a way that would be obvious at a glance? each of us has some awareness of self, others, nature, and the divine (your highest ideal, value, ethic)...how do you symbolize each of these 4 areas of your life...can you connect all 4 together in a meaningful way...can you perform the "symbolic capture"?

MOON GODDESS elements gather round your waxing and waning triple moon Goddess all of the elements, earth, air, fire, and water, are within and outside of us, ever gathering, integrating, relating, in a process of waxing and waning, culminating in the once a month apex of the triple moon Goddess. do you feel in touch with the inner and outer processes of earth, air, fire, and water in your life...can you feel each of them building, waxing, peaking, and then waning in a cyclical fashion...what messages might the elementals have for you...as a practice, follow the moon cycles...contemplate the full moon...where do you feel full in your body-mind-spirit, where do you feel waning, how can you cultivate a merging of peak waxing at the time of the full moon, and a letting go, surrendering to the inevitable waning?