Time to think? As we tentatively emerge, overwhelmed and blinking into the days of our pre-vaccine Covid world, struggling - with various degrees of success - to navigate the various threads of our life, there's no more important time to keep a journal.
Here we can be honest. Brutal honesty, if that's what you need, whether all
our narrative strands
still work for us in this strange new
world.
What's important? What can we leave behind? What do we want for our futures and
what do we cherish from the past? Can we live with contradictions? Forgive ourselves? Think polar opposites about the same issues? Want two mutually exclusive states?
Or find contentment with an unhappy compromise?
Keep a journal, if only for a short time, to discover that fantastic mix of intelligence, wisdom, emotional spiralling, positive thinking, negative pot holing, bizarre wonderings,
internal contradictions, strange instincts and demanding impulses -
that celebratory, glorious mess called human, by your name. Love it all.
Thinking Journals on sale for Autumn 2020 at Number 38 Vintage Emporium, Newport Pagnell.
Prices for A5 blank journals range from £29-£35.
And if you own a journal and you'd like a set of Thinking Tags at £4 per set to send your notes flying in different directions, order your set of twenty tags by sending an email to knickerdrawernotebook@gmail.com
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