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Block after block: Drawing Dragons Day 40

Our story appeared in The New York Times this morning:

Block after block, we’re building up time with him, we’re living in the moment, and we’re creating the memories we want to have, and guarding against the ones we can’t escape from.

You can read the whole essay here.

So much of life feels like that — like you’re building and creating, balancing blocks on top of each other, one by one. Like you’re trying to create something that’s not just stable, but also beautiful and big and important.

Sometimes, it’s easy. You see the form of the thing. You trust the line, the shape. You know where the work will lead you.

And other times, it’s like this dragon. I erased his whole body yesterday, and had to come back to it today. Bob showed me a way I could do it, and I snapped at him, then tore away at my lines.

I wanted advice, and I didn’t want advice. I really just wanted it to work — for the whole thing to make sense.

There’s more work to do here, but I’ll finish it tomorrow. Time to go to sleep before my sassiness explodes the house and I burn up the pencils and all of the paper for drawing dragons in the first place.

We’re lucky, really. To have this time together. To love each other this much. But I should also know when to put the dragons to bed. When to wait for the morning.

Drago with sketched out body.