Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Awesome stuff, and so beautiful.  I look at samples of my own handwriting and half the time I can't even read it.  Well, this I can't read either, but it sure has an amazing aesthetic quality

Not bad at all! Something to be said about the "beginner's mind/hand", no? As for your father-in-law -- looks like a pro.

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of a friend heard that I practice calligraphy and she asked me to write her something. I was handed some really tacky paper and expected to make a piece of art. Well, I tossed the paper aside, grabbed a nice grey-blue stone and started thinking of all the profound thing I could write on it. Finally, I turned to my friend and asked, "what do you think I should write?" As the former owner of an art gallery, I was hoping for something simple yet profound. "開心" ("kai syin" in Chinese) she said, which means 'happy'. Well, I guessed the simple part right!

Zak -- jinashi size queen

purehappiness wrote:

Very nice. I was just reading on how a beginners hand can bring out very good work. It is not crowded by all different ideas.Very nice. It makes me want to pick up my sum'e brush again.

Thanks for the good words on my sloppy left hand.

I had forgotten that I had posted those pictures a while back. For now I just try to keep up with my Shakuhachi skills and wiping my own ass all by myself M.S seems to take the best out of me little by little anyhow I will try to see what kind of stuff my crippled hands can crank out. We never know maybe it enhanced my calligraphy skills in some magical way. Luckily I have kept a couple of heart sutras and some other stuff I had written before getting this damm disease so I can leave this to my little one.