Sunday, November 24, 2024

Religion of Trees goes AAR

I started my talk today by asking the audience to "draw a tree" and show what they came up with to someone else. They had an absurd 45 seconds for each of these but it was just enough to get everyone buzzing. I don't know what people drew, though! Someone asked "do we have to turn it in at the end?" and I said no, but I wish I'd said yes. Especially as I told them they should feel free to keep doodling trees as I talked, and were later tasked with drawing the Buddha under a tree, with permission to repurpose their original drawing if they wished.