I want to point out to you that this letter has, it's almost like it's a piece of architecture, or a piece of furniture. It has structure to it. It, this rounded form which you see in this set of forms and this Roman alphabet are reminiscent of aqueducts, the Roman aqueducts. It's a very graceful form. And in fact, what you're going to see is, you see they use a very much of a detail, but this little shape in here, it's kind of like a softly rounded shape that goes this way, and then that way. It's called an ogee. An ogee line. So the more skilled you get at drawing these letters, the more we find it can become. But notice that this stroke does come out enough so that you have that sense of stasis with this letter. This is truly one of my favorite letters. And, here's a very important word, relax. In order to be able to do calligraphy well, you really need to be able to relax. That's where the grace comes in, and it's what keeps you from being completely exhausted because you may, you know, as you watch the series you may think that what I'm doing is exhausting my physical body, but it's not, it's what's going on with the brain. It takes a lot of brain energy, so even there too, you would have to relax, and that has to do with faith I guess. And then the other word that I like for the 'R' word is reasonable, because I hope that you're beginning to notice that in all of these cases, all of these letters are reasonable. They're taken, yes, they're derived from pictures from way back in history. But they come to a point where they're abstract pictures. How would you do with body language. And they're very reasonable in terms of spacing, and harmonious relationships of spacing, and so on. So there you go, there's your 'R'.
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