Fishing the Lake of the Mind

Imagine that your mind is a lake. Floating and swimming within it are the Five Hindrances: As you sit in … More

The Lifeline or the Deadline

Most difficult decisions don’t stay difficult because we lack information. They stay difficult because we keep postponing them. We kick … More

The Taste of Now “If you fall down because of the ground, use the ground to get back up.” At … More

From Gesture to Line In a sketching workshop, we usually start with an assumption that drawing begins with the pencil. … More

The Space Between Most of the time, thoughts move through the mind so fast they’re pressed right up against each … More

Sketch Stretching: A Way of Seeing You Can Practice in Minutes Most people think sketching is about drawing. Or talent. … More

Riding the Train of Change Everything moves. That’s the whole premise. Your thoughts move. Your feelings move. The people around … More

Resting in the Space Before Something There was a sense of floating. Not drifting toward anything. Simply floating. Weightless. A … More

Already Flowing The quiet continuity of experience. This morning I drew one of the quickest sketches I’ve ever made. There … More

The Gravity of Attention This morning I noticed three things that, at first, seemed unrelated. The first was that while … More