A Review of Five Journals

[Chris]

Hi Ron,

 

I hope I didn't offend anyone. It is just the name - journal and journaling - somehow doesn't sit easily with me, yet I'll happily write notes, thoughts, terrible little sketches and doodles in my notebooks and yet I can't bring myself to call them my journals. It's me

 

But, I do use a fountain pen for all of this, so I can't be all bad

 

Have a great Christmas one and all,

Chris

[Velma]

I call mine journals, in part -- as I wrote above -- because I don't write daily, and diary to me has connotations of daily writing, and in part because I think of it as a journey, complete with wandering off to look at shiny things, wrong turns, digressions, etc. But I use notebooks (in the literal sense of spiral bound books) for them, as well as other books, and I don't get bent if someone else calls it a diary, a notebook, a journal, a log book, or whatever. If you understand what it is for you, and can comprehend what it may be for someone else, that's all one can ask for.

[Chris]

Absolutely - as I say, it's me.

But write it down and enjoy the experience of thoughts, pen, ink and paper coming together. It's what we do.

 

Chris

[leicalvr]

Hi All,

 

Hope I did not seem bent out of shape or ranting. That was not my intention. I enjoy the act of writing. Sometimes it is to clear my head, to record an event, or sometimes it is just an excuse to play with a super cool new pen.

 

I think I share the same love that everyone does who takes time to post here.

 

My point, if any, is to continue the act of writing (by whatever name) and also to support those unique suppliers of pens, inks, and papers who provide us with all those neat toys.

 

In case I do not post in the Holiday rush. Have a wonderful and safe holiday, everyone.

 

Ron