07/16/2026
Artwork of the Day
Credit: Laura Jeanne Yoder
Centre, Alabama
I have been using Doodles for the past 18 months to feel grounded during episodes of social anxiety and other times when I would shrink or hide. It has helped me seet my nervous system into a wait and see mode instead of automatically checking out. I literally start with a swirl here and there and then by magic, the things I am struggling with beneath my skin, materialize through the pens that seem random.
For this drawing, I am in the midst of caring for my Dad in Alabama as he enters the end stage of life.
Though I am from Indiana, my life has been uprooted for the foreseeable future.
As I have been feeling unsettled here, I began to doodle this little guy. Trying to mesh as many little critters as I could into one cohesive being. I am wearing so many hats right now. Meshing my many worlds and lives into one little guy who is riding above the waves of uncertainty. Being pushed away and simultaneously pulled in until I feel suffocated. As the waves materialized beneath him, I realized they are giving color to an otherwise numb existence. He doesn't recognize who he is yet. He doesn't have his own color yet, but its coming. The waves that want to pull him under are the same ones that give him the joy to keep flying.
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