If someone asked you what you used to draw when you were a kid, what would your answer be?
I find it interesting that almost all of us would have an answer for that, because artistic expression is a normal thing for a kid to do.
One of my daughters recently asked me that question and I remembered that I used to draw dancing Snoopy figures over and over when I was elementary school age.
I don’t recall drawing anything but dancing Snoopy, and don’t know why I chose that, but, really, why not draw dancing Snoopy?
She asked me to draw a dancing Snoopy even though it’s been decades. It took a few weeks but I finally got the nerve. To ease into it first I practiced my violin, which is an activity I began shortly after my phase of drawing dancing Snoopy ended and continued into college. A couple months ago I started taking violin lessons, in the hopes of being able to join a community orchestra, but also to tap into the energy of that younger self that was intent on learning the violin.
Then I solved a Rubik’s cube, which is an activity I immersed myself in during one summer when I was in middle school (no social media, Netflix, etc. back then). I recently brought my Rubik’s skills back up to speed again, after decades of dormancy, by reading the book I read back then, which has several pages of instruction, and memorized the solution once again.
Now it was time to face the dancing Snoopy. I decided I should listen to a song that I would have listened to when I was eight years old, which, oddly enough, would have been a Johnny Cash song or Herb Alpert’s Whipped Cream. I went with the Alpert and, coincidentally, the song ended the moment I finished the drawing.
What is the dancing Snoopy equivalent in your life?
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