I spend hours every day in front of a 19″ flatscreen monitor. I play with new text editors and word processors like they’re toys.
And I know I couldn’t make a living from the base of a 14,162′ inactive volcano if it wasn’t for the Internet.
Yet I can’t quite escape the idea that pens and notebooks lie at the heart of what we do.
That’s why the daily visits to the moleskinerie blog.
There, I find inspiration like the notebook pages above (this is only a sample).
At the notebookism blog (same people, different posts), I see sketches like those below – things I couldn’t hope to reproduce, and appreciate all the more for it.
They inspire me to pick up on of the notebooks scattered around my office. And to write something aimed a little higher than my checking account.
If you don’t occasionally attempt to ascend the mountain, then you’re forever stuck in the caves below.
Don’t get stuck. Visit notebookism and moleskinerie for a dose of inspiration.
UPDATE: To see larger scans of the brightly colored sketches at the top of this post, visit the artist’s Flickr site. It’s worth the time.
[tags]writing, notebook, moleskine, moleskinerie, notebookism, sketching[/tags]
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