1 + 1

How about 100 (or more) focus tangles!!! Today's video being the first of them. I will probably post other random stuff also, but I would like to focus on some that would give you some ideas to use in your Zentangles. Most of the tangles I will use can be seen on Tanglepatterns.com .  I will do a monotangle on a bijou tile (2 x 2) and then use it on a regular sized Zentangle tile (3.5 x 3,5), unless I do something a little different some times. 

"1 + 1" is a simple grid tangle and it looks like a blanket to me when done. It will be the tangle that I show you today.

Yes, I do have something more to say about this tangle... 

    "Two are better than one,

    Because they have a good reward for their labor.

    For if they fall, one will lift up his companion.

    But woe to him who is alone when he falls,

    For he has no one to help him up.

    Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm;

    But how can one be warm alone?

    Though one may be overpowered by another, two can 

     withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken."

    NKJV (1982). (Ec 4:9–12). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

 

1 + 1 = 2 ... in life 2 is almost always better than 1. It is easier to do a job that requires heavy lifting or hard labor. Our friends, co-workers, and yes even administrators are important to us. We should be thankful for them and offer to help them as much as we can.

It is good to be alone at times also, but “a person is not an island unto himself”. We need others. These past months have not been easy for many of us. My doctor has told me to stay home as much possible. Going to the grocery store is ok once in a while, but they suggested I don’t go to church or to places where I would be sitting in a “crowd”. It is hard not to be able to go to church…

Anyway, having someone to help us or being a person others can rely on is something we all need in life. Solomon was not the only person who wrote about this either… many people have but Aristotle wrote about friendship and the need for friends in Nicmachean Ethics. I found a copy of this when I was in college and read it. It was cool to know others felt the same as Solomon.

"After what we have said, a discussion of friendship would naturally follow, since it is a virtue or implies virtue, and is besides most necessary with a view to living. For without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods;” Nicmachean Ethics Book VIII

Indeed, why would someone choose to live a life without at least one other person or animal companion. In my mine it is fairly evident that we need each other... we need companionship, fellowship, and friendship. I hope that you have someone that you can call a friend. because 2 is better than 1!

Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoy the video. God Bless YOU!