Maria writes:  I am pretty sure you envision us all here at Zentangle Central, like little elves, getting all these videos done in plenty of time and basking in the luxury of completing a major project. When in reality, we are running around, willy nilly, filming, creating audio, and writing stories and doing photo shoots up to the very last minute. I'd like to think we plan it that way so it is not too predictable, but we intend to get them done ahead of time. It's just that there are so many important Zentangly things that need our immediate attention, or so it seems at the...

Alfie writes... Today's tile is by Rick, no surprise here! He has his favorite tangles, his "mac'n'cheese tangles," (although I cannot remember the last time I actually witnessed him eat mac'n'cheese), but I digress. . .  As I reflect on the number of times he uses these two tangles, I realize why we call them "Rick's paradox" and "Rick's flux". I must admire his focus as he tangles. Nothing seems to break his concentration. I have found him to be a true Renaissance man, one who has profound proficiency in a number of fields: a lifelong student, never seeming to reach the end, where he gets the...

Maria writes: HEART: The center of emotion; the home of spirit, courage, and enthusiasm. No wonder we clutch our heart when these feelings are set free. In our Zentangle world, I find that we all love hearts because I see them often in your Zentangle art. In this collection of tiles that Martha and Molly have created, we see heart, or more accurately, a gathering of hearts . . . an overlapping of hearts. Perhaps there are emotions that we cannot find words for that live in that untangled overlapping part, like strengths we did not even know we had.  Bijou...