Responsibility

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An open notebook with handwritten text and an abstract drawing, featuring redacted sections.

Title: Responsibility
Alternative Title: Responsibility
Creator: Karen Blessen
Date: 2020
Description: The image shows an open notebook with two pages filled with handwritten text and drawings. On the left page, there is a sketch in black and red ink resembling a tangled, abstract form with swirling, tentacle-like extensions. These extensions contain partial words, appearing to be part of a phrase. Below the drawing, there is a handwritten question. The right page consists of handwritten text in black ink, with some parts redacted. Both pages have visible shadows suggesting depth, indicating real pages in a notebook. Paper clips and additional pages are subtly visible along the left margin.
Dates Completed: January 22, 2020-February 9, 2020
Keywords: Responsibility; To-do lists; Sustaining peace; Beauty; Magic; Responsible behavior; Perception shifts; Nature of responsibility; 29 Pieces; Psychotic break; Friendship; Rafi; Slide; Unexpected joy; Unexpected sorrow; Human connectivity; Delight; Harbingers of delight; Hypocrisy; Failed leadership; Leadership; Trump; Family; Friends; God's creation; The Work; Work of Life; Education of the Heart; Self; Trust for Public Land Park Project; Children's art; Schools; Valentine lunch; Valentine cards; Abraham Lincoln quote; Destiny; Tasneem Hamid
Transcription: Left page:

"Flaming Out Fear" (on tentacle-like shapes)
"The Unraveling of (redacted)"
"How does this get stitched back together?"

Right page:

"January 26, 2020"
"What happens in a psychotic 'break,' or 'slide,' or unraveling?"
"Can (redacted) be put back together again?"
"(Redacted) is a member of our meditation group. He is bright, insightful, gainfully employed and married to (redacted). He was born into a Muslim family in India but studies Hindu texts and has pretty much memorized the Bhagavad Gita. The Gita."
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Is Part Of: Responsibility
Relation: Image Gallery