Thursday Artsday

I'm doing this thing where, instead of writing when I'm feeling bleh, I've started just scribbling furiously and stabbing the page with markers, which pleasantly amounts to a bunch of polka dots. It sounds manic but probably doesn't look it because I actually feel my eyebrows and jaws softening while I do it. Or I'll fill a page with swirls and twirls and then find complete circles to fill with polka dots, and that kind of feels like a puzzle of sorts, so my concentration goes there towards that instead of whatever it was that was bothering me.

It's like "art for stress relief."

In no way do I think any of this looks remotely skilled - I'm using my children's art supplies, first of all. But I like the option of having this as an outlet. It stops me from dwelling on things so hard.