Blank Page # 20

Every Wednesday at Notebookism we open a "Blank Page" -  your chance to ask, answer and discuss anything notebook-related.  Keep it nice, keep it relevant.

Blank Page, an Open Thread.

Comments

[grannykass]

I has been sometime since I have stepped through the doorway of the Blank Page. I am shocked to find nothing posted here. Maybe some have writen and it hasn't been added as yet.

I have just finished watching the wonderful link posted today on Moleskinerie titled "Lost Bags. Lost Souls." Such a powerful story and adventure told in a cinamatic way that left my heart soaring.

My imagination runs wild with the thoughts of what other stories are being told day in and day out in the multitude of Moleskines, notebooks, journals and sketchbooks of mankind. Thankfully we have wonderful fellow souls willing to share their journeys with us, linking us world wide with each other. Such blessings.

[fishcracker]

I remember the first time I saw www.notebookism.com: the murderous part of my brain was arguing with the suicidal (or at least career-suicidal) part of my brain, and the poor little peacemaker part of my brain had just given up on talking them down, and was just ignoring them, randomly surfing, looking for nice, cheap fountain pens and ukiyo-e prints.

It went to moleskinerie first, but there was a link to here, and Blank Page was on top, and then it jumped up and yelled, "Ooooh, notebooks! Ooh, blank page!" And since I can never resist a blank page, I wrote something, and everyone inside my head just shut up and wrote.

I've always wondered since, if perhaps the writing, drawing and the blank pages are the distraction I've always been taught they were; or if they really are the main and important part of what we do, and it is everything else that really is the distraction.