Contemplative Comics day 9

One of the best forms of spiritual contemplation is menial tasks. Mowing the grass. Digging a hole. Filling in a hole. Placing bricks. Washing dishes. Folding laundry.

Reading Brother Lawrence really transformed those acts for me. So much of my day is filled with intellectual work, which is really hard to turn off. Labor creates space for my mind to be free. To simply BE.

Drawing actually is the same way to a degree. Once a comic is written and the layout is complete, the drawing simply happens the way a carpenter drives a nail.