A revealing new approach to journaling the self . . . Glyphix are what words look like when they are felt and drawn instead of spelled, unlocking the emotional meaning of what we write and say. Each person s Glyphix are a unique key to personality. Taking inspiration from Asian pictographs and using a Japanese shodo brush, L. J. C. Shimoda explains how ordinary English words can serve as prompts for meditation, writing, and drawing Glyphix. Readers will learn to use Glyphix to examine their feelings and relationships to achieve personal and artistic growth. Creating Glyphix is fun, too, a great way for kids and logophiles alike to discover how words work on different levels of meaning.