The Path Back to Sanity: Danny Raven Tan

(Filtered four, Navigation protocol, sand-shoreline-ship)

The 4 icons that I chose were a brain, a paintbrush, an IV and a lotus. I chose a brain to represent Danny’s mom’s dementia and his passion to spread awareness about this mental disease. I chose a paintbrush for Danny’s passion to paint and how it sort of brought him out of his dark state and brought him happiness. I chose an IV to represent his pancreatic cancer and how it changed him a lot, to have more faith and wisdom and strength to keep going forward. I chose a lotus because he painted a lot of them because you can use any part of a lotus and it will never be not useful. North: It helped me understand that someone’s scar is a completely different story and that can change the person entirely, as well how disease can change a person mentally and physically. South: It helped me connect back to our lessons by what I said before, that story is different that can be in an article. West: There isn’t something that I am unsure about, or at least not something that I can think of. East: This session inspired me to not judge anyone, even if it is something small. I don’t usually judge if someone has a scar, but even something so small like hair cuts can have a story. Sand: In order to think like a writer, you must know the story well about who you are writing about and just their story without yours. If not then it’s unfair to the person who you are writing about because you aren’t getting the point across which is what you were supposed to do from the beginning. Shoreline: It deepened my thinking about that his life or story is so much more than just pancreatic cancer, so much more that he learned that we too can learn from him. Strength, Wisdom and Faith. Ship:  I honestly think that maybe the entire story. The non-stop events that happened in his life were pretty extreme and like I said before, the things that he learned we could learn too. “Do it”.

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