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June 26, 2017  

This one is my Diva Challenge for today DC#322.  I have Aquafleur, Printemps, Zinger, and Mooka all playing nicely together.

Read on for my CZT #28 class report

Duane has graduated from Zentangle CZT class #28 in Providence, RI.  I have also returned home just in time for the Diva Challenge #322.  I had a really great time in Providence.  I was one of two male students in the class.  Everyday I got to say "I went to dinner with 121 women at the same time."  I loved that.  I even called my wife and told her....she is so good natured, she laughed...and I said, "No, really."  It was the truth, we all ate our meals on the floor where our classroom (the Grand Ball Room of the Biltmore) was right after class each day.   We literally took over the top 2 floors of the hotel.  This was the nicest hotel I have ever been at.  Every one of the staff went out of their way to take care of us.  Those of you who said it would be a magical time was absolutely correct !!   It was a fantastic experience and I will never forget it.  It inspired me so much that now I want to teach this method to anyone who will listen and I want to do it for as long as I am able....I probably got 20 to 30 good years yet  as long as I live to be 100.

If you are not a CZT, you owe it to yourself to go to Seminar.  It is the greatest.

Zentangle, Inc.  from right to left, Molly, Martha, Rick, Maria, Julie and Maria's sisters.

Some of the ladies in my class 

Some more ladies --  Ladies, ladies everywhere.

But I was not complaining, you understand. 

This is when Rick and Maria were handing out our diplomas.  He's way back in the back of the room.

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Here's Maria and I

Molly and I

Me just being silly taking a picture with wings.

Those wings mean something to me.  They mean that Zentangle has given me wings to accomplish a dream of mine; and that is to teach this great and wonderful relaxation and meditational method of drawing (since Art is a passion with me).  I want to help others learn to be able to handle anything in life with a little time to themselves to destress and be able to handle anything that comes along.  We learned meditation while drawing from Molly.  She is a great teacher, even one so young.  Maria is a hoot.  She is nowhere and all of a sudden her voice can be heard on the loudspeaker interrupting Rick on one point or another.  Then she is all over the place, flitting from one spot to another like a little butterfly.  She has a speaking voice that can not be matched (and she said she used to be too shy to talk to a group).  Both of them are great teachers right alongside Molly.  This team was made in heaven, I am convinced.  Maria's sisters helped with the logistics of the event.  Then there is Julie.  She used to be their next door neighbor until she got married, but she now works for Zentangle, Inc as their computer tech, Mosaic go-to person, anything digital and she is there.