I outsourced my currently inked this week
Time to shake things up. I asked my partner to select three pens for this week’s kit. And I asked my good pen friend to select three inks from his own collection. No requests and no exceptions. How serious.
The beauty in a disrupted rhythm, a mnml digest
Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On how the discomfort of trying something new is a sign that I’m growing. Conceptual discomfort, and feeling jarred out of my normal rhythm, is evidence I can convert something wrong into something better.
All doubled up on black
I’m all doubled up: one light grey and one light black ink. The Sailor’s B line widths should render that pair an effective accent against Cypress’ narrow F lines and light purple grey.
The goal is to use black as an accent color. Usuzumi’s sheen is simply too fun not to return from last week. Back in black.
In defense of the slow, inefficient read … and the long point pencil
Efficiency and speed are quite different where reading is concerned. Each has an important role to play in making sense of what I read. I need to read a book twice to get to both headspaces. And that involves revisiting passages over and again, each time with new tools added.