Today’s Daily Create asks us to sketch “what it’s like to be you” and to focus on the fun part of this moment, this perspective.
Sketching asks a lot of me; I have a belief that I “can’t draw” which goes back to not being as good as others in elementary school art class.
But then Randall Munroe has shown you can do a lot with stick figures, so there goes that excuse.
But “in my subjectivity, here and now,” I don’t feel like drawing. So here are some character sketches in words. I don’t know if they’re all actually from my perspective, but what you might see looking in.
A grey-haired man in a blue shirt is at a conference table. Around the table are 4 women and himself, evenly spaced out, each working quietly on their own projects on their own laptops. From time to time he looks around, proud to have brought Writing Group to his new place.
A grey-haired man in a blue shirt is hunched over his laptop at a conference table. He fidgets in his chair. He crosses and uncrosses his legs. Sometimes his fingers fly on the keyboard, sometime they are still. His cup of tea (4th caffeinated beverage of the day and it’s not noon yet) is empty.
A grey-haired man in a blue shirt stares out the window at bare branches dusted with white. He wonders if driving through a low snowbank was a smart choice to get a close parking place. His stomach rumbles and he wonders what’s for lunch. He strokes his goatee and realizes his skin feels drier on the inside than out.
A grey-haired man in a blue shirt finishes his blog post, hits publish, and closes his laptop. He digs a green notebook out of his bag and a cheap purple fountain pen from his pocket. He puts pen to paper and watches to see what happens next.
Featured image: “pen” by Russell Wall, CC-BY-NC at https://flic.kr/p/361DHa
