Yet, once again I have neglected my poor little blog of ramblings. Entries so mundane that that are assured to cure one's insomnia. Or maybe that's just for me. Once I can express some of these ideas i can shut down the cranium for a bit so I can rest. Well, at least rest the mind for a bit.
So what has been taking up my time, as of lately? This gadget inclined lady has gone more analog. Not so much as taking up anything new or changing from before, just have been doing a lot more of it.
Allow me the indulgence to explain what the heck I am talking about. I'm journaling - more. What? Why is that relevant? I have always kept a journal, from probably since I was 10 years old. This was my own therapeutic means of dealing with and processing life. And although I have had computers since I was 10, in the middle of the 80s. I never got the satisfaction doing an electronic journal. (Maybe why I lack in my blogging skills, motivation or something like that.) There is just something about the process of thought traveling from the brain down to the pen and on to the page. Granted I can type faster, spell better and have a more legible reading experience electronically - but its just not the same. I like watching the point of my pen making contact with the page. My hand writing has never been uniform, so at times it is interesting to see what style is going to show up today. Maybe my penmanship is also just another facet of my personality. That is something to contemplate, and in away it already does make sense to me. I do see that when I write, how things change at the rate of the ideas flowing, rapids, or bubbling streams of consciousness.
What has been prompting that additional journal writing? Probably just more focus to put words to the page. But it has to be the fact that I have gotten into the fountain pen hobby.
I honestly hate calling it a hobby, its an art, a craft. These pens have allowed me to open up more to creativity. Not just recording words on the page, but even attempting some rudimentary art work.
I have enjoyed learning about fountain pens, for there are so many things to learn. Not just how they work, but their differences. How ink responds to certain papers. What brands are out there, that are economical, and for me I want utilitarian. I can not fathom the idea of purchasing a vintage or extremely fancy pen, for I would fear ruining the pen, or loosing the pen if i took it away from my desk at home.
I have one pen that I got for mother's day, and this pen is a twsbi 580-al in purple. Lovely pen, so many parts and pieces. Some folks own several of these pens. I will not. Just this one. Some folks own many others that are far more expensive that this one. That won't be me. Some folks have a grail pen, but for me, so many other pens are out of the realm of being practical, I would rather have several cheaper ones than just one extremely priced pen. I'm sure the cheaper ones can not compare to the writing experience those fancy ones have. But I am finding just pure and sweet simple joy with the couple of pens that I have. That I no longer think that there is another pen I could possibly want. Maybe years from now when I have wore these out, or wrote that novel I always intend to write, then I will look into saving up for one of those grail pens. But for the time being, I will keep to these simple pleasures.
I don't know how I can explain it, or what it means to me. I have yet to figure all that out. But I have thought that maybe it would be something I can work on writing, and hence having some material to blog about. The few folks that would be interested in reading what I might have to say about pens will be a very small group. But maybe there is some one out there, that is just hitting "random" blog and finds something interesting, or at least has been given some help in falling asleep. And with that I bid you good night. I am going to go write about the new pen that came in the mail today. I used up a credit I had to get the new released TWSBI Eco - white fine nib pen inked up with Noodler's Sagauro Wine.
