Splitting the difference
Splitting the difference between work needs and the coming five days off for playing around with personal scribblings. A little somber and a dash of playful.
Summoning all of the grinds. Well, five of them.
I enter this week with lesson plans sketched out, conferences planned, and meetings prepped. Wowza. All but two meetings will move methodically enough to accommodate intentional attention to my writing angle. This is what policy wonks call a “policy moment” — a nib grind moment.
The giggling is the point: A visit to Penny Post’s Fountain Pen Test Drive Event
The moment I know that a new pen is coming home with me is when I actively seek out reasons to continue scribbling. Cursive “s” shapes. Hash marks. Nonsense sentences. My dog’s name. Often done to a soundtrack of quiet, joyful giggling.
A quick survey on how we experience wet inks and dry inks
Dr. Nicole Sharp (aka. @aerognome) recently extended an invitation for folks to participate in their new study on how we experience inks as wet and as dry. I’m including an excerpt of their call to action here because it looks like a fun investigation. It’s a short, direct, and anonymous Google Form.