The day I met my art teacher

One day-on my return journey from work-in a packed second class train compartment, a middle aged lady tried to squeeze herself on a seat-already packed beyond capacity. The hardened women did not allow her, as she also had with a large bag.

In a few seconds there was an opening on the seat opposite to me-and she grabbed it.

The crowd slackened and soon after I looked around to check out the “pushy” lady.

She looked familiar!

“Dipikaben?”

She looks at me quizzically-and asks me my back ground.

“Sudha Kalash”

And she smiles-oh the house where the three sisters in law live together…..and I think ohmigod!

And then she launches into a complete history of me-my family and all and sundry, including marriages, kids et al.

It was great!

I have now learned after many such incidences-that I love reminiscing….

I told her about how we have still preserved all the artwork we did with her…the cards, blankets and others.

I guess she was thrilled too! Happy that I was in a filed of art, and happy to hear that my daughter doesn’t have an art teacher (you can teach her yourself, she said!)

We talked about the old days. I summed it up by complaining……there is no time for art today…no time to pursue a hobby…..to draw, to sketch.

On hearing this she said to me……….

In a day…you need only 5 mins-5 mins to sketch anything that captures your imagination wherever you are sitting…..it will open your mind….will get rid of your artist’s block…and loosen your hand….will train the eye and make you reconnect with your lost art……

Then mount a small part of your sketch –and use it as a card or a piece of art---or simply build your collection……

What a simple idea!

I have actually implemented this-involuntarily for my blog, music as well my running…….

I do what I love for a few minutes each day-EVERYDAY

This lifts my day from its mundanity……..and help me to be in touch with myself and in sync with the soul….

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”