A manifesto on what you should pay attention to – from a book on The Art of Living profusely illustrated by comic strips

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Via interlibrary loan, from the Meridian Public Library, I obtained and am extremely enjoying reading a thoughtful 2022 book with comics by Grant Snider titled The Art of Living: Reflections on Mindfulness and the Overexamined Life. Grant is an orthodontist and an artist. He has a web site called Incidental Comics. The book begins with:  

 

THE ATTENTION MANIFESTO [Page 5]

 

I will pay attention to what’s in front of me. [Page 6]

I will make a blank space in each day. [Page 20]

I will do one thing at a time. [Page 36]

I will put my thoughts on paper. [Page 52]

I will go outside no matter the weather. [Page 72]

I won’t be afraid to be bored. [Page 86]

I will experience the world with my body and mind. [Page 96]

I will find beauty in the everyday. [Page 112]

I will stay open to wonder. [Page 126]

 

At Incidental Comics on July 1, 2020 there is an Attention Manifesto comic strip which is not in the book. Here are links to a dozen comics appearing in the book, as presented on web pages at his Incidental Comics site:

 

Stillness [Page 15]

Openness [Page 16]

Contemplation [Page 24]

How to be happy [Page 38]

Beginning [page 53]

What to do on a rainy day [Page 75] 

Ripples [Page 88]

Uphill [Page 98]

The path to empathy [Page 101]

Getting over [Page 103]

Morning light [Page 113]

Multitudes [Page 132

 

The reading man was adapted from a line drawing on page 20 in the Walt Stanchfield book Gesture Drawing for Animation, which you can find at the Internet Archive.