I thought I'd take advantage of my host family's scanner to swipe Simone's genius concept of handwritten posts. The pictures below are my first page of my Moleskine, and the other two pages is the introduction to a book I'm reading right now; I thought it was very well written and interesting to see it handwritten! I feel like my generation is quickly losing touch with the handwritten language with the digital revolution.
That is all!
Ben
6 comments:
ben - so cool to see/read something handwritten!
don't quite understand the concept -
l'esprit de l'escalier...
what am i missing here?
hey! thanks for the shout out! i love that intro you scanned. and the first entry of your journal was cool to read. i love seeing handwriting too--something very present and real. a part of the writer's personality that you just lose in type. and i LOVE the l'esprit de l'escalier / treppenwitz. i have to admit, my life is pretty much a series of moments standing on the staircase. i also LOVE that there is a word / phrase (albeit in other languages) for this precise thing that sums me up. geez!
ps: it's not easy recognizing and admitting weaknesses (we all have them). but i firmly believe that to do so is a sign of strength (we all have that too).
What a great idea, handwritten blog posts. So much is conveyed in handwriting, all the nuance that gets lost in plain email communication and makes emails so tone deaf.
I love Moleskines. Nothing better than a quiet moment, some green tea, a pen and your journal!
Hey Benno, I am glad you are using primitive implements to balance all the technology. There are some great reasons to write by hand as you will be able to analyze (someday when you are ancient like your dad) what you were feeling at the time you wrote. I had one of my grandfather's letters analyzed and didn't share that it was written right before Pearl Harbor. The analyist saw stress and emotion that wasn't expressed in the words, so I became convinced that the process had some validity. Writing also allows for mistakes that also illuminate how we think, and this too might be useful to you in the future. Finally it is also an object that you have created and is not something that can be created by a machine.
On another note, did you get the Lobos CD? I mailed it weeks ago.
Love,
Dad
(my word verification is appropriately : relic)
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