"The designs are simply symbols, my own calligraphy," Ms. Hourani said.
Every evening, I remember spending hours in my bedroom practicing calligraphy to Neil Young's 'After the Goldrush,' artistically copying phrases of his music, smoking marijuana to calm and numb my pain".
When my daughters started getting invitations with their names in calligraphy, though, my homemade parties weren't measuring up.
ANCIENT ART When time permits, very rarely, I practice calligraphy with my wife — Chinese calligraphy.
Mr. Babbitt's calligraphy strikes my eye as square, functional, decisive: the writing of an engineer rather than, say, a physician.
Here's the truth, I have no business selling diet pills, shakes, oils, tonics, any of it, because I have no education or experience in any of that and no, your nifty 3-hour seminar is not going to make me an expert even if it comes with an embossed certificate replete with my name in beautiful calligraphy.
In kindergarten, my son learned to cook African dishes; my daughter was taught Arabic calligraphy.
In order to give me something to do, my father had me learn calligraphy".
"I started getting involved in brush making from about the age of 18 because my parents did it," producing calligraphy brushes, said Mr. Takemori, 81.
