'Life, as we knew it, was just an interrupter of the slow, the steady.' For NPRMusic's Daily Breather, Liza Anne shares she's using this time to do things she 'couldn't' do before — like learning to draw.
I had never drawn before this. I've always been quickly pulled out of any moment before gaining the appreciation yielded from the patient catalog of someone or something's details in a drawing. Drawing is among many things that take focused time to collect the details of the beheld — details that I so easily skip over when moving paced with life as we lived it. But now, there is a new pace with room enough for things to take time.is an artist and an art teacher.
I like to imagine us all having a quiet, solitude of communion with this new pace — our own secret conversation where we leave with our own way of"being with ourselves" in this time. All of those ways are okay. This collective slow down, this deep breath we're all taking — although full of weight, grief and a myriad of unknowns and other feelings — has left room for a communal healing. A healing of the miniature plagues of modernity on our ability to slow down.
I wonder what I will take forward from this time where I learned how to look at the details of something long enough to portray what I saw in a small sketch. I wonder how much more patience I will be able to hold for others when I listen to them, the same patience that finds a way to portray the detail of where their eyes and nose meet or the curve of their bottom lip.
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