{"id":508,"date":"2011-06-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2017-02-13T14:27:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:27:06","slug":"doodling-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Doodling is important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always doodled while thinking. I used to draw goofy pictures, but as an adult, my doodling has changed to random words and phrases. I found these doodles all over a notebook from 2009:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What do you see through the eye of a needle?<br \/>\nI see me.<br \/>\nI see eternity.<\/p>\n<p>Monk<br \/>\nBeautiful, peaceful monk<br \/>\nof the dawn<br \/>\nTouching the breath<br \/>\nof the morning life<\/p>\n<p>We co-create.<br \/>\nAllow it to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Hard work and discipline<br \/>\n&#8212; What&#8217;s down that road?<\/p>\n<p>I touched heaven<br \/>\nand it was fire and love.<br \/>\nThe light is the way.<br \/>\nThe path is illuminated.<br \/>\nThe words are the map.<\/p>\n<p>I am already naked<br \/>\nNow PLAY<br \/>\nPlay<\/p>\n<p>There was a road<br \/>\nand I didn&#8217;t know how to walk it.<\/p>\n<p>If we define art as a beautiful and inspiring act then<br \/>\nLife is art.<br \/>\nEvery moment spent truly living<br \/>\nis creation.<\/p>\n<p>My Dreams are often nebulous and beautiful;<br \/>\nthey are a Monet of emotions and colors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have faith in your doodles. They are windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always doodled while thinking. I used to draw goofy pictures, but as an adult, my doodling has changed to random words and phrases. I found these doodles all over a notebook from 2009: What do you see through the eye of a needle? I see me. I see eternity. Monk Beautiful, peaceful monk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/?p=508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Doodling is important<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}