12.30.2023 Left handed drawing #1. Maybe l.h. scribble. Is sl0w & fast. Free. Layer in Covid brain. It surfaced good energy. Optimism. Empathy. Gratitude.

12.30.2023 l.h. drawing #2 Is possible.

Drove down to the water on this fourth evening of Covid quarantine.  Behaving myself.  Really don’t want a repeat of long Covid which fuzzed up a lot of 2022. Erratics have been my theme this week as I get out for occasional walks. First keeping PW company while he had Covid, then the reverse. No energy to carry drawing materials into the woods though. Maybe next week with the kids who are coming through for late holiday post-Covid family time.

Will have right-hand surgery end of January.  Wanted to explore how to facilitate drawing with left hand. May be good for me. I remembered, while drawing and thinking about how trivial it is not to have a right hand for two months, that I want to write a remembrance of the special people who left my world this year.

Two efforts this evening. Both surprising to me. The looking and thinking is mostly the same. The seeing is perhaps better. The drawing is so easy and unburdened. No expectations. Even writing left handed, slowly, is interesting. I was so focused on it though I labeled the second one as #3.