Journaling in portrait mode
Journaling in portrait mode is a refreshing adventure. We are afield from my typical writing arrangement of an A5 or B5 dotted/gridded notebook. Two A6 pages are the same size as one A5 page. Having an A6 journal teaches me more about my journaling preferences.
Grinding away the same set of pens
The urge to customize one of my pens hits me every now and again. Customizing a nib takes many forms: smoothing on fine-mesh, tuning and aligning mis-aligned tines, and even reshaping the tipping at the end of the nib (or: grinding a nib).
Swapping nibs, tinkering, and customizing
The newest pen in my collection is the Monteverde Giant Sequoia. I ordered it with a silver-colored steel F nib, which works just fine. The coloring of the pen, with its streaks of black and golden brown, calls out for a black nib. As it so happens, I had a black nib sitting in an uninked Franklin-Christoph 31.
Dark and stormy isn’t just a drink
Rain, water, and tea seem to be this week’s theme. November Rain and Purple Rain are titular. Earl Grey and Rikyu-cha are inspired by teas. Verdigris is what happens to exposed metal near the sea. Pushing the theme a bit, Midnight Twinkle evokes how sailors use the stars to navigate. I’ve got nothing for how Andy Warhol fits the theme. Let’s go with: outlier.