Cameron was watching me shop for journals today. He understands… Shares my affinity for office supplies. This time I’m being incredibly picky, as I’m trying really hard these days to 1.) fill up a journal all the way through — not just use the first three pages, then start over and 2.) use one journal for everything — I used to have separate ones for different categories (stories, languages, science, etc.). I find it gives the book more color, looking back, to have phrases like
might be too attached to my ego to properly love
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try with and without protein powder… kiwi?
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spell list: identify, obscuring mist, ray of frost, daze…
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calcium receptor polymorphism — sensitive to deprivation?
It just works. But this journal has almost run out, and I’ve been having such a hard time finding the right one… Patronizing rule-size, titles on the cover like “Gratitude” (like it’s for a person to whom it only occurred to him/her to write because O magazine suggested it), ugly prints… But it was more than that. I’m waiting for that feeling I got as a little (or not so little) girl, of putting my hands on a book and knowing that I was going to make it a mystical tome! I have a history of red journals, which is energetic — but blue might be better for relaxed and focused thinking. My current one is green. Do I want graph paper? Maybe no rule at all this time, totally blank.
Yes! A journal must speak to you!! It’s important – you won’t use it otherwise. I also totally agree with the one-journal-at-a-time thing. My journals in the recent past have been lined, but blank ones are fun because you can change up your handwriting size and draw pictures… Did you find one?
I settled on one that wasn’t necessarily perfect, but thin enough so I should be able to fill it up by the time I find a new one. It’s got a cover that’s sort of reminiscent of Victorian upholstery — but, er, not nearly to the extent of coolness of which that sounds… I still think the rule is too wide! It has good, thick pages so my more inky pens don’t bleed through, though.