Postcard feature: Zentangle

The first time I heard the word "Zentangle," I quickly went to a search engine to look it up.  At the time, the only site returned was the official Zentangle site, where vagueness reigned and solid information was hard to come by.  The originators of the word were, at that time, very tight and close with the thing they were marketing (even more than now, so I was surprised when I eventually learned that it was in essence a codified version of the kind of mind-unbending meditative doodles that covered the high-school notebooks of many of my classmates--especially artsy kids with lots of stress.

I play with repetitive doodling now and then, but not as meditation, as it doesn't work that way for me.  But it's fun!  This postcard was returned while I was on a trip to Denver.

 
The finder wrote:  "Hello!  I just checked out your site & enjoyed reading about your experiences with Portland & the Central Library.  This postcard was sent in a bok to the Gresham library, where I work.  My co-workers thought this was a great idea.  Love the art. I enjoy doing zentangle, too. :) "

Thank you, kind finder!  I loved visiting Portland.  Such great transit and food and neighborhoods.  And Powell's!  And the food carts! And the dragon boats!  And some little sandwich shop down on the waterfront near the uni, with ice cream in the same space.  A girl there made me her two favorite sandwiches, each on a different day, and both were delicious.  I love going into little local eateries and asking the server to bring me their favorite thing from the menu.