![]() I’m sometimes wandering around an unfamiliar city or navigating narrow corridors and twisted stairways in a strange and cramped building. I’d love to dream that I’m simply lying on a beach reading a favorite book-all peace and tranquility-but that’s not how my brain works. I dream epic dreams, full of technicolor details and heart-pounding scenarios, almost every night. “Dreams, if they’re any good, are always a little bit crazy. Something to think about as I work to make improvements and tweak my priorities in 2019. Because I’ve scheduled this, and made it an ingrained habit, I’ve been successful at maintaining this streak. * Edited to add: Tina correctly pointed out, in a comment, that I have maintained a daily journaling habit, so clearly I can do something every single day if I really want to. And if I don’t, feel free to keep me honest. 2019 will probably be weird, too, but I hope to do significantly more blogging. Lots of drama and changes (ongoing) with my elderly parents. A lot of struggles, doubts, anxieties, pep talks, and precious memories.Ģ018 was a weird year. That’s a lot of ink and words-a lot of whatever spills out of my groggy head and onto the page. I can’t imagine my morning without coffee (french-pressed cold brew) and my journal.Ī few days before Christmas I started my fourth 480-page Nanami Paper journal. I started this practice in the summer of 2016 and once that switch flipped on, it’s never been turned off. It’s warm and wonderful, full of delightful people and pencils. ![]() I’ll do a separate blog post about my experience in the store, but let me just say that this little shop feels like home. I finally made it to CW Pencil Enterprise. This is a “sometime” kind of journaling, but it’s sticking. Sometimes what seems like a stressful dream actually delivers a positive message when I sit down and dissect the images and emotions. Especially vivid or meaningful dreams get recorded and drawn, and I do my best to tease out the significance of the what I experienced or felt. This isn’t something that I do very often, but I do do it every now and then. I acquired more pens than seems healthy, and didn’t dip into my own collection of under-used pens when I had the hankering for something new. There are certainly other areas where I fell far short of my goals, declared or not. (A friend suggested, just today, that we get back into running so this might be the perfect place to log those workouts. I’d like to use the monthly calendar pages to track something, but I haven’t given that much thought yet. I do like looking back at those pages, but I don’t think I was gaining much insight from the practice, so I just stopped. That venture petered out after a month or so. I also started scoring my days, drawing the weather, and charting my mood in my Hobonichi Techo. Not only that, but I bought even more cards and notes (at 75% off at Barnes & Noble, but still) so the stationery situation is actually a little worse than when I started. This basket, I must admit, looks pretty much the same as when I made that declaration. And I DID send a good number of cards, but lesson learned: you’re not going to do ANYTHING every day of the year*. ![]() That habit stuck for awhile-into March, I think. ![]() I believe I declared that I was going to clear out my backlog of notes and stationery by mailing a card or note to someone every day of 2018. I thought I’d do the same for myself, as a way to look back at 2018. I love Anderson Cooper’s “Keeping Them Honest” segments on CNN.com where he takes the day’s political stories and reviews the facts versus the spin.
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