#29 - Yumi Sakugawa, Cosmic Comic Book Artist

The Witch Wave

Pam Grossman

Arts, Visual Arts, Spirituality, Other, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Yumi Sakugawa is an artist and author whose illustrated books and comics include Your Illustrated Guide To Becoming One With The Universe, There Is No Right Way to Meditate: And Other Lessons, and her newest book, Fashion Forecasts. Her comics have appeared in many publications such as The Believer, Bitch, The Best American Non\xadrequired Reading 2014, and The Rumpus. She has also exhibited multimedia installations at the Japanese American National Museum and the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building.

On this episode, Yumi discuss how she came to combine her art and writing with her spiritual practice, the magic of meditation, and the importance of having tea with your demons.

Pam also talks about what she’s learned from meditation, and answers a listener question about witchcraft and anxiety.

Our sponsors for this episode are Mithras Candle, Tarot for the Wild Soul, and Magick with a K.

Transcript

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1:09.0	Welcome to the podcast where art is magic, magic is real, and reality is stranger than dreams.
1:16.0	I'm Pam Grossman, and this'll be a friend.
1:25.0	Oh, suddenly shakes in the night.
1:35.0	A mountain to my feet to my knees to my knees to my face a root in me.
1:47.0	You can think and things.
1:52.0	Hello and welcome to the witch wave. It's early March and this strange in-between
1:59.3	between season often makes me think of the song Funny Time of Year by Beth Gibbons and
2:06.7	Rustin Man. Even though it's supposed to be spring soon, it's still pretty cold and here in New York we're most likely going to get more
2:15.8	snow even though March is supposed to come in like a lion and out like a lamb as we're taught in elementary school, but which rarely ever seems to actually
2:26.2	happen.
2:27.8	This is time when, at least for me, winter tends to drag on and on and on. Maybe that's just because I'm antsy for spring to arrive.
2:40.2	I want to see green and budding flowers and colorful clothing and instead it's just
2:46.7	more and more gray. This past weekend we set our clocks forward an hour.
2:54.5	So at least there's a little more sunlight.
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