Draw. What Is It Good For?

In 1938, Ralph Waldo Emerson asked Henry David Thoreau a very simple question:

The two had hardly met but the question changed Thoreau’s life, and as a result we have all of this.

Though I’ve journaled for decades, it’s drawing that’s helped me step over life’s shit piles. My clichéd rubbish childhood, my divorce from God, my illegal alien years, my milli…