With holiday break beginning, I settled for a larger collection of eight inked pens. The solitary grey is a carryover TWSBI from last week. It’s a personal challenge to see this combo run empty. And with all the task management I anticipate, emptying the TWSBI mid-week a real possibility.

One of the perks to using fountain pens is change. I enjoy choosing new pen and ink combinations. Cleaning and filling pens with ink is a meditative activity. Those moments offer time to stop, to breathe, and to return to living in the present. A low ink capacity, in other words, is meditative.

Stick with what brings you joy. Together, this week is another collection of cool-toned colors: mellow blues, teals, and earth tones. Half are EF nibs. With so many TWSBIs, these combinations should last me a little while. Having more ink in pens is timely considering the increased bookkeeping I process at the interchange of marking periods.