Noodling about doodling

A doodle by me. Katy Buchanan

In a way, sheltering is an opportunity to be meditative. To think about things, and, if you are fortunate, to be able to write about your experience. And then there's the opportunity to get really nervous. Yeah,  I've been doing that.

So, meditative has been (amid chores) long walks and doodling. Another thing I've been doing is looking over a notebook that I kept on hand when I had the incredible (in retrospect) luxury to go to meetings and be bored ... because you know, meetings! And people who hijack them! A former colleague, who is also a very talented illustrator, used to get teased about the stuff she drew during budget meetings. (For you non-newspaper people, a budget meeting is a daily get-together of department heads to go over coverage for the day and how it will be displayed, A-1 being the prime (print) real estate. In retrospect again, considering the profitability of journalism today, the budget meetings probably should have been about the money. Well. Water long under the bridge.) That notebook is full of doodles and notes that are now pretty much incomprehensible.

Anyway here's a doodle drawn over the course of a non-meeting week. I've figured out that doodling is a way to make mistakes and learn from them. After all, it's not like I'm going to be graded. And it's not like I'm going to be in any meetings anytime soon.

I plan on sharing some meeting doodles. But just this for now.

And of course, after publishing, this just hit me. Any Major Dood!