Hey everybody what's going on. Welcome to the Astro Hustle. I am

Cori Allen and as always are you having a wonderful day today. Today on the

podcast is my dear friend John F Simon Jr. I've known John F.

Simon Jr. I've known John for 10 years. I've known him since I was 25 26 and it's been fascinating how our

relationship has evolved and changed and just continued to flourish over the years.

As we cover on some of the early podcasts that him and I did together on the astro hustle,

he was very instructive and fundamental and shaping the part of my early artistic personality

whenever I was emerging as a young fellow trying to understand myself, creativity, and how all of that and my thoughts fit into the world.

He was a warm and welcoming and open mentor for me whenever

we shared a month-long residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida in 2006 I want to say possibly

eight so since then our paths have not surprisingly continued to run somewhat parallel. He is an incredible visual artist and has continued to produce

unbelievable work from the time that I met him up until today.

He's woven his interest in knowledge

about mindfulness and meditation

and his own creative process. mindfulness and he released a book called Drawing Your Own Path, which is a fantastic book and it helps people

use the active drawing as a form of meditation and as a form of helping them understand

themselves and their creativity.

He also has his own podcast now called Drawing Your Own Path.

On this podcast, I have to say this is a pretty white hot one. I really enjoyed it. I believe it to be my favorite of the

podcast that I've done with John. We've done a good deal of them together. But we go deep into creativity as we always do and then

unbeknownst to John I ask him for his definitions of things like awareness, spirituality, creativity, and we get into some really interesting territory around all of those topics.

So I hope you enjoyed this podcast.

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