Dare to Doodle

The classroom is quiet save for the rise and fall of the teacher’s voice as she explains the ins and outs of a new concept in literature. Oh and one more sound can be heard from the back of the room if you listen carefully. It’s the gentle scritch-scratch of one dark-haired girl’s pencil as it covers the page in front of her with an assortment of lines squiggles dots and shapes. 

No these aren’t algebraic symbols or geometric shapes and our subject isn’t doing her math homework in English class; these are good old-fashioned doodles and our friend is drawing them rather subconsciously as she listens to the teacher’s explanation. And as she doodles she finds ideas for her upcoming essay popping easily into her head. 

Sound familiar to you? You’re not the only one. Regardless of your age stage or skill level you can indulge in the time-honored pastime that has led some of history’s greatest thinkers to get the juices flowing and break out the ideas. That’s right it doesn’t matter where you are; if you have a pen or pencil and a scrap of paper (or by all means a napkin!) pull ’em out and join us as we delve into the doodle!=

Long Live the Scribble! 

Long before most nations of the world had any alphabet (although of course as People of the Book Jews have been writing since time immemorial) they had doodles. Hieroglyphics a system of writing that used pictures or symbols to represent sounds or ideas were used by the Egyptians and by many other ancient civilizations.