Buddha Board - Portable Zen Water Art Canvas with Brush | Reusable Drawing Board for Meditation & Stress Relief | Perfect for Mindfulness Practice, Office Desk Decor, and Creative Relaxation

There's an idiom in Japanese, "mono no aware", translating to "the pathos of things". From Wiki: "Mono no aware, lit. 'the pathos of things', and also translated as 'an empathy toward things', or 'a sensitivity to ephemera', is a Japanese idiom for the awareness of impermanence, or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life."My favorite art supply store had these setup in one of the side aisles I didn't really frequent. Sometimes I'd play with it and I know I thought on more than one occasion along the lines of "what's the point?" Since then I've taken up meditation and struggled a fair bit with painting/writing blocks, where I just didn't want to "ruin" something like a new sketch or notebook. This is kind of a perfect salve for those times, where you just get so hung up on the permanence of things but don't consider it in the proper context.On a practical level, you could use it with watercolor brushes to test out techniques. On a wellness level, can get something out of your system that's blocking you from starting something you want to do. Also works great if you need to vent something into the ether. There are a lot of potentially interesting uses for such a thing.In retrospect, that art store closed. It didn't make it through the last few years of economic challenges and I miss them dearly. We have other stores and they're great, but they don't have the same character or personality. It's really fitting that the thing I took for granted there now reminds me of them and gives me a such a sense of such wistfulness. In several regards this helps me feel gratitude for the present moment, and fosters a sense of everything in time will pass, but that's okay too.