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notebook habit: Notebook habit (2004 - present)I wonder if I should retire this...

notebookhabit:

Notebook habit (2004 - present)

I wonder if I should retire this small, black Moleskine notebook that has been riding around in my purse (various purses) for eight, maybe nine, years. Its spine is badly broken, its elastic loose, and its cover only tenuously attached. Most of its ‘empty’ pages…

Dear notebookhabit.

Don’t retire your Moleskine; fill it up with memories from the past until the end of the year, so you can start with a fresh one in 2013. Reread what you wrote, add notes to who you were during the years you carried the Moleskine around in your pocket. Don’t continue to add new history to it, leave it be for 2012, but fill out the empty pages with memories from the years past. It’s no good to continue the present with so much of the past on these pages — when I look at the notes I took a couple of years ago, I can barely reconstruct who I was, let alone agree with some of the things I thought back then. I’d never carry around an old notebook with me (it was already quite overwhelming to bridge the gap between my drawing style in 2007 and 2011 which is the time it took to fill my first Moleskine sketchbook, but I was determined to not leave it incomplete); it isn’t part of my present self any longer.

Hope that helps.