We are where we’ve been, a mnml digest
Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On my philosophical wanderings through how our histories shape what we value now. We are where we’ve been. Biography is the journey to what we value now. And we have no choice but to bring our histories with us. Worn on our sleeves, in our heads, and in our selves. (Philosophical much?)
Sheen with purpose and ink mullets
This weekly palette’s sheening inks make for easy scanning while working the room during lectures. Thank you, Sabimidori and Aurora Borealis. Copper Noir lends a complimentary orange for highlighting key points and noting housekeeping items to review with my students. Inks with purpose.
2022 state of the scholar, the fourth and final tray
I review my pen collection every year or two. The goal is to ensure that all of the pens in my case remain interesting enough to me that they make me want to write.
We have reached the end of my collection reflection. The fourth and final 13-pen tray. Populated with one-offs from small makers and small one-or-two-pen collections. Chaos. A tray I lovingly call the “Tray of Unreasoned Un-order.”
Basic is the new special edition, a mnml digest
singing the glories of no-nonsense stationery basics. Simplicity is its own flashy when inks, papers and pens simply work well together. There’s happiness to be had in a simple gray or sepia or blue or teal. Or black notebook-lette.