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Alright here is our "Y" and our "Y" we are going to think of this as a two story letter,
but what we need to do is we need to join these three strokes, it is one, two, three
and I am going to say that it is probably a good idea to join these three strokes together.
Just a little bit below the center line and that you want to widen this you know, this
ends up sort of looking like a little wine glass or champagne glass or something. I think
what you want to feel when you draw this letter, that there is enough volume in here to stabilize
this letter, at least that is how I think about it. But you also want to consider the
fact that it also a lot of space, a lot of counter space on either side, so you want
to be careful not to let the shape part of the "Y" get two wide. Oh look at the beautiful
words I have chosen for the "Y". Yin and Yang, I am sure you are familiar with this symbol.
This is the ultimate Tai Chi symbol, the Yin and the Yang representing the masculine and
the feminine, the balance of opposites and this is a little graphic that I designed and
it reads like this, "Freedom balanced by discipline equals power" and I think the Roman alphabet
is a beautiful example of that. Freedom balanced by discipline and the ability to be able calligraph
the Roman alphabet will give you those things, a sense of balance and the freedom that comes
with it once you understand, once you have those principles under your belt. So there
is our "Y" and I would also like to ask you a question now, which is "why delay joy?"
This is a piece that I have done and calligraphed a number of different times, this question,
because I think it is a very important question, "why delay joy?"