Anyways, let me explain. While watching one of the videos from the Peasant Princess series mentioned in the previous posts, Mark mentions that he and his wife keep organized by using Moleskine books. I googled Moleskine, and, I don't know. They might be good quality books, you never know. Tonnes of varieties and sizes. Then, there was a story section on their website, and there were two sections to it: words and images. Having a image section on a site does well for a person like me. When I clicked for it several images of different people's notebooks appeared. They all looked so interesting.
I have two things, aside from this blog, that I use to primarily express myself: my journal and my sketchbook. For me, journal means expressing with words, sketchbook means no words. And I'm finding that there needs to be more of a balance for me. If I pass away and someone wants to look back on my life, or even myself just flipping back through things already written or drawn, I don't want a whole harem of my books to have to be assembled first to get the whole picture. It's gotta be simpler than that.
The goal for my next journal is not to be a journal, not even to be a good, interesting, journal. I want it to be more of a commonplace book. Allow me to quote from Wikipedia to explain.
"They were a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and humanists as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests."
I want my journal to be that. I want it to look more creative from an outside glance perspective. I also currently want a big bowl of porridge with a heap of peanut butter on top...mmm, I do want that.
It's not that commonplace books are a new discovery for me. They're the same type of books that Klaus Baudelaire and Duncan Quagmire use in the Series of Unfortunate Events. (Great books, some of my favourite fictional). But it's like I found another part of myself.
Art isn't one of my greatest passions, but it explains a lot about me. It has to do with expression. One of the things I absolutely love most, is people. I love getting to know people, seeing how people work, how they think. To look at a life and take the good and the bad and see beauty in it.
By the way I'll say this here, if you find out that I've died, and for any reason, find my story interesting enough to publish, please don't take out parts. It's all or nothing, and hopefully in the end my story will give glory to Jesus for all the things he's done, does, and will do in my life.
So yeah, I love people. And I may be a thinker but I'd never survive in some deep psychological school because that needs to be coupled with creativity. If I were, I'd have to learn a new concept and think about it for the next two weeks, maybe on top of a mountain in the Netherlands or something, I don't know. And I'd draw about it too.
This is a picture from the story section of the Moleskine website. Click on it to go that story section, I would have loved to put all of the images here. It is the cover of Pablo Picasso's cahier. Because of this book, when I start my commonplace journal I'll write on it "Je suis le livre banal", which means "I aM the commonplace booK".
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