I've been doing some sketching/journaling as I read Resmaa Menakem's My Grandmother's Hands. I was struck by the title of Part II--"Remembering Ourselves." I thought about dismemberment and what it means to put bodies back together--both our individual bodies and groups of people (the body politic, the church body, and on and on I could go).
For my first sketch, I just tried to capture some ideas:
This morning, I returned to the idea of putting something together with a pattern, and then I added the haiku-like creation:
I had something else in mind, something completely different, but this sketch is the one that came this morning. That part of the process always intrigues me too. Later, perhaps I'll explore further.
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