Sometimes our tangles have stories or tales behind the pen strokes and sometimes our pen strokes inspire stories or tales. When Maria posts a tile on the Zentangle Mosaic App she almost always shares with us some sort of creative narrative. Her words range from inspiring thoughts to fanciful tales. We thought we would share with you some of these parings in a blog series we are calling Maria’s Meanderings. --- + --- Maria writes (August 2018) ... I have a true dislike of the color orange. Never wear it, never have it in the house. This makes me feel...

Maria writes: A couple days ago, Rick and I spoke online to a Zentangle gathering in Wales. Just before the end, one of the facilitators asked if anyone wanted to tell us how practicing the Zentangle Method had changed their life. One woman raised her hand and she told her story. She described how, after a serious accident and an extended coma, a friend gave her one of our Zentangle books and encouraged her to try it. She did. And she proceeded to tell us how tangling helped her to recover, to move through her pain, and to regain her passion for life. I was moved to...

Wow! We were amazed and delighted by all the versions of new tangled species that were created during Project Pack No. 21! So many tanglers expanded on the fanciful tangled garden of botanical species we had imagined. The creations were truly spectacular. Quite a few tea times at ZHQ have been spent sharing the art tanglers have posted on the Mosaic app and Instagram. “Did you see this one?”, “I love this!”, “Breathtaking!”, were just a few of the exclamations. How wonderful would it be to wander around and get lost for a bit of time in this gorgeous garden?...