It has been three months now since I made the decision to "go retro" with my journal. It has been quite liberating to switch back to a bound paper journal. (Yes.. it is recycled paper...at least it says so on the back. And it is proudly printed in the USA... screened lines of paper bound in a book... how hard can it be?) And the pen scratching across the page connects me with my past and present somehow.
I have found that journaling the old-fashioned way has made me think a little harder. When I type at a keyboard, I tend to just write in a "stream of consciousness" manner. The backspace key and the delete button become good friends to eliminate poor logic or less than clear thinking. But I don't get that luxury when writing by hand, and thus I think more in paragraphs then in short sentences. That is a good thing to do. Plus, I have yet to have my blank journal book crash, hang-up, or fail to connect to the Internet!
So I will keep this up until the end of this year, and then get back to my electronic journal. For now this blog remains sparse, but eventually I may catch it up with some edited journal entries from what is now a handsome hard copy of my thoughts.
It has been three months now since I made the decision to "go retro" with my journal. It has been quite liberating to switch back to a bound paper journal. (Yes.. it is recycled paper...at least it says so on the back. And it is proudly printed in the USA... screened lines of paper bound in a book... how hard can it be?) And the pen scratching across the page connects me with my past and present somehow.
I have found that journaling the old-fashioned way has made me think a little harder. When I type at a keyboard, I tend to just write in a "stream of consciousness" manner. The backspace key and the delete button become good friends to eliminate poor logic or less than clear thinking. But I don't get that luxury when writing by hand, and thus I think more in paragraphs then in short sentences. That is a good thing to do. Plus, I have yet to have my blank journal book crash, hang-up, or fail to connect to the Internet!
So I will keep this up until the end of this year, and then get back to my electronic journal. For now this blog remains sparse, but eventually I may catch it up with some edited journal entries from what is now a handsome hard copy of my thoughts.
