I know everyone has their own shit to deal with. Mine is primary progressive MS.
It sucks.
Zentangle helps me deal with it.
I discovered zenttangle while watching NH Chronicle one night. They did a piece on it. I thought it looked like art that I could do. It was reminiscent of the doodling I had done on the edges of my notebooks when I was in school. The structure of the official tangles lends guidance to my very unartistic brain, while the "zen" of it allows my creative side to be released.
Before MS I was a "doer". I enjoyed running and working out. I believed that a good sweat cleansed my soul from the inside out. I Enjoyed cleaning my house. It felt like washing walls and cleaning out closets made me be organized and clean. I can no longer do any activity. Having PPMS is counterintuitive to everything I always believed. "Use it or lose it" is the exact opposite of what I should do. When I use it, I lose it. There is no forward gain, only the view from here looking back on what was.
Like the proverbial riptide, fighting against the current only frustrates me and pulls me down deeper. I must surrender to rise above. Zentangle gives me peace.
Zentangle helps me remember: It's Not The Goal, It's The Journey.
The Zentangle® art form and method was created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas and is copyrighted. Zentangle® and CZT are the registered trademarks of Zentangle Corporation. Learn more at zentangle.com.
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