DRAWING FROM THE DAY
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LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY, PART III

6/3/2016

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Even just looking at that tile encourages me to take a deep breath and relax. 


This next one is busier but was equally fun to create.
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This morning I stumbled across an excellent post on meditation and people's misconceptions about it.  It's quite short and is by Arnie Kozak, a guest blogger on the wonderful Susan Cain's site; you can read it here.  He really touches on the most common assumption about meditation--that it's about "stopping the mind."  It isn't.

But drawing frequently does stop my mind and pulls me into total absorption on the one line that I am drawing in this moment.  Thus, meditation and drawing serve the same purpose in different ways for me.
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
--Thomas Merton
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