the moon's favors: "It seems there is something really important about manually manipulating and drawing out two-dimensional things we see all the time"

2012/05/18

"It seems there is something really important about manually manipulating and drawing out two-dimensional things we see all the time"

How Handwriting Trains the Brain

Sorry about the link to (Murdoch's) WSJ, but you get the point. No need to stick kids in MRI's. Maybe just pick up a pen or brush. Put marks on paper. These are good.

Words whisper, carrying more than one might know, hypostases, rather than mere understanding. Words grow from roots, spawn families, travel and mingle, get lost, get found, and often marry the strangest bedfellows. Like our bodies, our ideas, and our culture, words evolve, handed down to us from a place beyond memory. As the warp and woof of language, words possess the magic to shape the immaterial into the solid things of psyche ~From my intro to AO's The Archives of the Heart

The Platonic tradition may be likened to an underground river that from time to time sends up a spring; wherever its waters flow, the soul is reborn, and with it the conception of intellectual form, the beautiful, and true art.~ Kathleen Raine