MUGS!

So lately I have been working on drawing what’s in front of me, and it so happens that I always have a coffee mug either in my hand or beside me. It’s always filled with brimming hot coffee or a cup of my favorite green tea. In the afternoons, it’s almost certainly green tea. I love afternoon tea! I should moved to England!…

But I’d like to get in the subject of…MUGS!!

A favorite mug is important. It can add a little happiness to your day, when you notice that it’s been cleaned the night before and it’s staring right at you in the cupboard, saying “hi,” “good mornin’ to ya,” etc. right there in your cupboard. It wants to let you know that its special from all the other coffee mugs you’ve acquired over the years.

You may have woken up in a foul mood, hung over, the dog has been whining in your ear for what seems like hours to you, while you try to get the extra 2o minutes of sleep before your alarm goes off, again! But just the thought of a little mug just made of ceramic, can try to change the course of the day.

I do have a favorite, and it happens to be the one I drew the other day in my sketch book. My Crater Lake mug.

Why is this such a favorite? I guess because it was a souvenir  from the west coast which I intend to go back someday. I think that might have to do with it. I have a yearning to travel, hit the road, do those things that I’ve always dreamed of! Climbing up mountains and hiking long trails into unknown territories, that sort of dream. Just being around nature and its beauty, and not having to hear the hustle and bustle of society and the city life. Can a coffee mug really bring out those yearnings? I guess so…!

Plus, the mug is sort of a replica of camping style mugs, you know, the ones that are dark blue with the white dots on them? Made of tin. Well, this one is not made of tin, but it has the little dots on it, and its rounded with a large handle that you can grip easily while  you’re sitting around a campfire or something. I just like it!

So I can drink from it, and savor the moment when I can get out there and camp out in nature and still enjoy a campfire-made coffee. Ahhh, sounds like heaven!

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal,–that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.   —Henry David Thoreau