Last week when I attended the Philadelphia Flower Show, I watched a couple botanical artists carefully render flowers with water color and colored pencil. They were promoting the work of local botanical artists whose work was displayed nearby.
It got me to reminiscing about art classes taken years ago. Oftentimes in my prior life in Corporate America, I'd take drawing classes at the Arts Students League. The organizational politics of the workplace often left me feeling as tense as a violin string. Yet, the act of focusing and drawing put me in an alternative space.
It was rare that I didn't leave class without a contented smile. It was clear that the botanical artists at the Flower Show experienced the same effect.
Call it another technique of mindfulness meditation.
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