I’ve picked up art again, art in general, to help give me something to do that’ll put me mind at ease. I chose sumi-e because while it’s on the surface very simple it can go into great detail. And though it is simple it is by no means ‘easy’. Expression with sumi-e is very subtle. It’s going to take a bit of getting used to.
A while ago I had purchased a drawing tablet and had wanted to use that for sumi-e however I just can’t seem to recapture interaction between brush and paper with with a pen and electronic tablet. I guess it may have something to do with them being two completely different mediums or something....Way too complex for me.
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Classes....I haven’t really been doing very well in classes. Sometimes I’d sign up for some and then withdraw from half....That’s just me being lazy but I think I can no longer afford to be lazy. I’ve already wasted so much time....I’ve started watching myself, if that’s even possible, and have come to realize that a lot of my time just goes up into the air. I don’t really do anything with it...I’m not enjoying myself or in any kind of duress, I just move along day by day in a daze.
On the other hand I’ve got a new rice cooker, which is great because now when I cook rice I can just clean it, and leave it. When I make rice I try to do it as mindfully as possible – concentrating on the task at hand rather than letting my mind wonder off and do whatever it is that it wants to do. It’s difficult but it feels ‘right’.
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In addition to a rice cooker I've been trying to cut out a great deal of the meat I eat. And to help me with that I took the liberty of getting a slicer, you know those long knives that are normally used for slicing meat. Here are the knives I have now:
Cutting out a lot of meat is only half of it. The other half is cutting out sugars, to help with that I've found Japanese "Umeshu" which is about 87% sugar, the rest is alcohol.
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