Fast Day 3/Art!

Since I've been writing so much about the ancillary support that goes along with the fasting (was it Mark Twain who said "Show, don't tell"?) here's some showing...

Yes, it was another day of two bowls of (seriously, lovely) vegetable soups - today was beetroot lunch and pumpkin dinner, plus meditation and yoga in the morning, but with a free afternoon I wandered down campus to the Kunsthaus for...painting classes!

Although "class" is a pretty strong word for what was really an experimental, 'see what you like,' 'give it a try' kind of free-form art lab. We were given green ink and twigs as our medium, and after one stab at using the branch like a pencil I was gently encouraged to hold it nothing like a pen at all but rather just at the opposite end of the twig from the one with ink on it. I understood Frau Klakla's point while trying it, that doing it that way makes it (obviously!) looser and freer, and more important pretty much impossible to compare with drawing pen or pencil-style. 

Anyway, here are the results - we were given lots of freshly pulled plants from outside as our inspiration:

Super challenging for Mr. Left Brain/Logic - I was exhausted after an hour of it - and really fun too to try something new (yikes - when was the last time I tried to draw...anything?) and switch on different parts of my head and heart.

I think - again - that's what they're really after here. The fasting part can't be minimized, of course - it's the reason the place exists and the reason people come here - but(!) I believe the reason so many of my fellow guests here are 3, 6, 15+ times repeat guests (no kidding!) is all of the wrap-around psychological, physical and emotional support that suffuses the whole place. The above is just one example.

And for the stat heads, numbers still looking good - the weight keeps dropping, but happily the rate of decline is slowing here on day 3 of fast (plus the first day of sorta half rations) and BP and pulse (it's checked every morning, so of course gonna be low) are stable.

BP: 122/69
Kg: 75.0