Links to the looking glass self of stationery use, a mnml digest
A curated journey through five articles, posts and podcasts that are speaking to me this week. Pulled widely from a week’s worth of reading. Shared in ten sentences or fewer. A fun means of reflecting on the blogs I regularly read in a way that spreads the linky love.
My reading this week has me reflecting on how even my most individual writing is built on relationships. Reflection is dialogic. Self-reflection, included. The looking glass self of stationery use.
What’s What 7/23-7/29 (Line Variation). Nathan’s currently inked is presented as a reflection in dialogue with how ink reviews have described Nathan’s choices of inks and pens. The post that started my thinking on the communal nature of my individual choices this week.
P.S. Emily Dickenson’s Secret Collaborator’s Notes (Noted). My personal writing, to start, is interconnected with those who are on my mind. I would be a wealthy person if I had even one dollar for each time my partner’s name has been scrawled inside one of my personal journals.
Journaling Series: Journaling to Clear Your Mind (Writing at Large). Especially true for my analytic journaling.
My 10 Favorite Grey Inks (Mountain of Ink). Heck, exploring other people’s preferences helps to expand, and sometimes confirm, my own understandings of my personal likes and dislikes.
Hinze Pens are perfect for when everything is coming up Carl (Extra Fine Writing). Creating is, itself, a dialogue between what I intend and how I anticipate it will be received. And context — like what counts as self-expression as a lawyer — is ever and always contextual. Crazy socks included.
