Draw a Picture

Two things:

1. My dad taught me how to think about math problems as pictures.  I'd ask him how to do a word problem, and he say, "Have you drawn a picture?" I'd go draw a picture and drawing it how always helped me figure out what I knew and what I didn't know.  

2. I have always connected pictures and words--words are pictures just as letters are shapes. As I have gotten older and braver in my doodling (there was a long period in my life where I decided I should not doodle or draw becuase others in my family were "better at it" and therefore it was "their thing to do and not mine" ), I have discovered that my drawings can tell me a lot.   

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Featured above is a doodle created during a meeting.  

1. I don't remember now where it started.  My best recollection is started with the curve of the flower stem.  I know and do remember I was feeling "bent" and "pulled down" 

2. I have always connected pictures and words--words are pictures just as letters are shapes. As I have gotten older and braver in my doodling (there was a long period in my life where I decided I should not doodle or draw becuase others in my family were "better at it" and therefore it was "their thing to do and not mine" ), I have discovered that my drawings can tell me a lot.