By Megan Wehring 

Art can help us escape our thoughts. Veteran Dena Taylor learned this lesson after introducing meditation drawing into her life. 

Veteran Dena Johnson with her artwork.

“It gets me out of my head,” Taylor said. “Sometimes, I can get stuck overthinking things, especially second guessing decisions, should-haves and could-haves. I can just set my pens out, set the border and off I go.”

Taylor is a disabled veteran who found meditation drawing, along with oth...