When I was living at my Grandma Blakesley's house I stumbled upon a few "one subject" spiral notebooks. I'm not sure what Grandma used them for, if anything, but I've habitually used them since for a journal/idea book that I take with me most places. I think of her a lot when I use them.Benefits: they're light, compact, cheap, and come in several delightful colors. Disadvantages: I suppose they could rip easily, but I haven't had issues with that so far.
A graduate school professor once advised that writing is key to developing, understanding, and retaining thoughts. I've found that if I'm not writing daily, many things I learn are forgotten. And it's cool when writing produces new new ideas.
I guess this is a little plug for writing, but mostly a thanks for those notebooks at Grandmas.
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Cblakes-
Speaking about spiral notebooks-- When we moved down to St. George, I packed what I thought was my navy blue spiral notebook from my MTC days. The other day I pulled it out and found that it was not mine. I believe that it is yours. I will hold onto it for you.
I love the story about finding a notebook at Grandma's house. You may not recognize it, but your writing has dramatically improved over the years.
I, too, carry a notebook with me everywhere. My notebook of choice is a small, black, pocket-sized moleskine with a secret pocket.
really like the title of this post!
socrates said, "the unexamined life is not worth living"; i like your idea of writing as a means of conscious living. i wish i was not so critical of my writing...maybe i should take my tape recorder w/ me to get my thoughts down.
xoxo
c
Spencer - I've been looking for that everywhere! Just kidding, thanks for holding onto it - but since I'm not missing it you could trash it if you want.
Thanks Jayme.
Chantalle, I got the title from a phrase my mission president used when prodding us to write. That Socrates quote is great too.
Do you know who said "how do I know what I think 'till I see what I say?"? I remember hearing that quote and thinking about it a lot during my undergrad. I thought it was a famous quote. Is that true, or did I just hear it from you and assume it was famous?
Ian:
A quick Google search turned up several sites attributing the saying to E.M. Forster, without citation of course.
Ian:
More digging turned up the following:
The quote is "How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?"
It comes from E.M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel" (1927).
Here is the quote in context:
'Another distinguished critic has agreed with Gide--that old lady in
the anecdote who was accused by her niece of being illogical. For some time she could not be brought to understand what logic was, and when she grasped its true nature she was not so much angry as contemptuous. "Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!" she exclaimed. "How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?" Her nieces, educated young women, thought that she was passée; she was really more up-to-date than they were.'
source: page 101, Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster, Harvest
Books, 1956 edition, read using "Search Inside" on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156091801/
Ah, yes. That's it. Although it appears that even Forester is quoting from another text (or is he just offering a hypothetical dialogue?).
Ok, its going in the trash.
Nice reflection Cblakes. I like spiral bound notebooks too. They are nice because they will lay flat.
They can pose a challenge for left handed people. Their wrists hit he spiral part as they write. Do "left-handed spiral notebooks" exist?
Left handed spiral notebooks do exist, only they are quite expensive and kind of funny to use. I just hold the pad at more of an angle so I don't run into the spirals.
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