http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/01/25/be-still/ One Mormon boy’s iconoclastic quest to remix and rectify his notions of truth, mind, myth, love, life, and transcendence. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:48:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/01/25/be-still/#comment-5152 Green Oasis » Keys to Drawing Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:57:45 +0000 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/?p=11#comment-5152 [...] For years I’ve wished that I could draw realistic pictures—perhaps to prove that Todd wasn’t that special after all. I’ve doodled. Sometimes I’m surprised by how well my doodles turn out. Most of the time, I hide them from critical eyes. I hate doing things that I’m not good at, being vulnerable in that way. When I realized how driven by fear I had become, I started to intentionally put myself in situations where I would probably make a fool of myself. [...] [...] For years I’ve wished that I could draw realistic pictures—perhaps to prove that Todd wasn’t that special after all. I’ve doodled. Sometimes I’m surprised by how well my doodles turn out. Most of the time, I hide them from critical eyes. I hate doing things that I’m not good at, being vulnerable in that way. When I realized how driven by fear I had become, I started to intentionally put myself in situations where I would probably make a fool of myself. [...]

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