Daily Doodle # 26: Escher’s Hands

Escher’s Drawing Hands

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Daily Doodle # 7: Moving Hands, Wandering Minds

Floating hand # 1

 

Floating hands # 2

“One of the great pleasures of doing anything repetitive by hand, whether it’s knitting, making bread, chopping onions or sowing seeds, is that they rhythm of the action allows your mind to wander.”
— Jane Brocket, The Gentle Art of Quiltmaking

Doodling — hand-drawing repetitive lines — fits the bill!

 

In Praise of Idleness Drawings 87 – 95

 

Fuchsia

Trumpet flowers

Leaf

Calla lilies

Trees

Great blue heron

Face

Crow

Hands

The end

It was a rush to the finish, but I did complete this project by the end of the year as I had hoped.  Time for new projects in 2017.

 

Happy New Year!

In Praise of Idleness Drawings 80 and 81

Thank you card

Hand holding stone

In Praise of Idleness Drawing 28

My left hand

Wordless Wednesdays: 12 Views of My Right Hand

Thinking about the Virtues of Work This Labor Day

Hands in the garden

Hand quilting

“If there is any one thing that’s unhealthy in America, it’s that it is a whole civilization trying to get out of work — the young, especially, get caught in that.  There is triple alienation when you try to avoid work:  first, you’re trying to get outside energy sources/resources to do it for you; second, you no longer know what your own body can do, where your food or water comes from; third, you lose the capacity to discover the unity of mind and body via your work.”
—  Gary Snyder, from The Gary Snyder Reader:  Prose, Poetry and Translations

I am of two minds about people (affluent people) who hire housecleaners to clean up their messes at home or laborers to mow their lawns and pull weeds.  On one hand, I think people should clean up after themselves.  And I hate the sense of my time being more valuable than yours, so you do the dirty work.  On the other hand, if you can afford it, why not hire people so that your time is freed up to focus on the things that are most important to you.  And hiring people creates jobs and extra income for entrepreneurs.

What do you think?