Let’s hear it for a new typewriter! This Royal KMM is a Christmas gift from my wife. It is the exact model I wanted. She figured it out with a time tested method, she siad “go buy it, here is some cash.” OK, that is not what she said. But it is what she intended when she gave me a wad of cash and encouraged me to get the typewriter I had wanted. May you all have spouses as kind as mindful as mine.
There has been some talk about journaling here. Cat, are you going to do Bullet Journaling? The rest of you, do you do Bullet Journaling? I am wondering about it. Do I want to get everything down to single line summaries. I am not sure how this works out. If you know, do tell.
Once we figure that out…what was I thinking? OK, look we do have a special place here. We have a HYPOMNEMA. That is a Greek word with “several translations into English including a reminder, a note, a public record, a commentary, an anecdotal record, a draft, a copy, and other variations on those terms.” That is from Wikipedia. Wikipedia got it from Liddell and Scott Greek-English Lexicon online. It helps a lot if you can read Greek. There is a lot of references in the Liddell and Scott to explanations here. Or there. Wherever. But, my god, what a concept of a word. If I did not have a fistful of domains, I would register it for myself. But, Before I stray too far off the subject, yes, we have a hypomemna here in our collective writings.
About journaling again, I am doing it again. Or still rather. Morning Pages to start the day. A sketch journal after Lynda Barry’s example. It comes from page 61 of SYLLABUS. And other pages of other books from Lynda Berry with slight changes. The page is divided into four sections. This is a basic five minute diary. Write down 5 to 7 things you did, 5 to 7 things you Saw, something you heard someone say, and a 30 second sketch, Bang you are done. Except I do not do that. Most of the time. I just write. In other journals I have COOKED for things I have made to eat. Uke, for musical (well, if I can call it musical) bits, there is an empty exercise book. Mostly it is a book of things I wonder about and whatever is going on with that. There is a lot here.
I attempt to do something structured. Like what I plan to do in a day and then ater what I did. But I am distracted by life and not yet playing close attention to what I am up to. I am thinking about that now. I am going to go off and think about it more.
Keep it safe, dear,
— MichaelRpdx :: rkmm/48