Can You Meditate and Be a Bad Ass?

 

Dear Friends,

Laura and I went to Bluff Point State Park today to hike and sketch.  We stopped along her favorite part of the rocky shore and chatted lightly for awhile.  I headed off to sketch this unusual plant with spikey seedpods, while Laura headed over to draw wildflowers.  I usually don't show this sketchbook to many people because the drawings are very much in process and raw to me, but I am feeling more confident about what has been developing in the work. I have often felt that they should be more realistic to be taken seriously, but you know what? That's crap. I think this perception came from teaching at the college (which I am now free of) and my own crazy mind.

What I want is to draw from my intuition about experiences I have.  It's not a drawing with an artist statement or thesis about life.  It's a drawing I make up as I go along and let unfold. There is no expected outcome.  No exhibition.

While we were drawing, we participated in setting the Guiness World Record for the largest collective meditation.  It was a beautiful moment to sit in the shade of an oak tree along the ocean and meditate on peace.  We are such bad asses!