Where craft meets cognition.
In an outcome-obsessed world, fooling around gets forgotten. There’s a lot of niche topics in the notebook-o-sphere online. How to pick the right notebook, How many notebooks are too many?, How my notebook changed my life, etc., etc. One of the common types of articles is
“ The hard part to understand — and even harder to internalize — is to recognize that these talismans, regardless of their significance, are simply representations of the experience.”
Journaling doesn't replace exercise or meditation – but it's a lot more friendly. This Sunday, 11am CST, is another Papermancy Guild Hearth event! We get together online and share our interests, challenges, and projects. Click the link below to learn more, or email me to get an
How I accidentally adopted the right suffix for what we do here. Paper is — well, come on, you know what paper is. -mancy, though, is a happy accident. I am a fan and friend of author Ferrett Steinmetz, especially his “FLEX” trilogy. One of the conceits of that book is
"Peter MacKinnon is a gearhead, much like the rest of us; we do it for notebooks and paper and ink and pencil in the way he does it for camera gear and typewriters. And there's nothing wrong with that!"
