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Taran Kaur's avatar

I feel like I keep getting brought back to Rilke as I often think of the line - live your questions now. I like your attitude to sketching as I do it for fun relaxing practice of recording the moment. I found your page through the zine Rules to live by Carolyn Yoo.

Nishant Jain's avatar

Glad to have you here, Taran! Poetry is so important to course-correct sometimes.

Scrantz Studio 37's avatar

YES! paying attention is what it is all about- drawing- life - children - spouses! everything!

Zen instruction! be present! watch! see! draw!

Kim K. Roberts's avatar

I'm so glad you wrote some of these thoughts down here, Nishant. I remember thinking during your Artist Talk, "Man, Nishant is just ON FIRE right now."

I'm sure I captured some of those thoughts at the time in my sketch/notebook, but like most lessons, it's good practice to have them run by this soul again.

Jocelyn's avatar

This brings to mind another favorite Mary Oliver line: “Attention is the beginning of devotion.”