Where it says "In case of loss, please return to:" I write my email address.
In the "As a reward: $" I write the number of Moleskines I have
completed--currently 17!
Then I regret the fact that I have the handwriting of a 10 year old.
At which point I am able to start using the tool without regrets.
And not to get all analytical or anything, but I have a feeling Emily
Dickinson would have a *lot* to say about:
My husband gave me a Moleskine for our first wedding anniversary and I love
looking at it but am so ridiculously particular about how I fill it.
Thanks, David S
Mmmmm David not sure what you mean by Emily Dickinson line so please illuminate me. Thanks for the rest of the practical advice. Believe it or not I even had trouble writing my name in it. Boy I really sound pathetic so think I'll sign off now.
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Phew A never thought I'd get so much 'good oil' when it came to my question. Obviously this was a great place to start my counselling. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
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From: A. <celes...@gmail.com> |
Beam me up Smitty. Great practical advice which will then allow me to follow Daniel's advice. I'm becoming braver by the minute.
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From: Smitty <tsmy...@gmail.com> |
Thanks Daniel that's a very Zen way of looking at it. Now I just have to fill it so I can look back.
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From: Daniel Choi <dhc...@gmail.com> |
Thanks Shirley
After all this good advice I've received I'm feeling more confident every day.
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From: sbraley <shirley...@gmail.com> |
Thanks Fryxie
Don't be so precious - okay I think I'm starting to get it.
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From: Fryxie <cfry...@gmail.com> |
Dear Moley Melange
I think you should put this perfect reply in that perfect Moley.
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From: Moleskine Melange <moleskin...@gmail.com> |
Iam a visual arts student and the other day a
fellow student opened his Moleskine and just started scrawling notes
in it. I was aghast with shock and envy.
He [Churchill] has described how Hazel Lavery [a famous painter and a friend of his] found him one day incapable of further action contemplating the snowy expanse of a new canvas upon which he had timorously made a mark about as big as a bean. Seizing a large brush Hazel splashed into the turpentine and as Winston described it:
"... wollop into the blue and the white, frantic flourish on the palette - clean no longer - and then several large, fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely cowering canvas. Anyone could see that it could not hit back.... The canvas grinned in helplessness before me. The spell was broken. The sickly inhibitions rolled away. I seized the largest brush and fell upon victim with berserk fury. I have never felt any awe of a canvas since."
</quote>mmmm, now that's outside the square.
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From: NKS <Nof...@gmail.com> |
There is nothing scarier than a blank canvas, page or block of clay, I'm actually a ceramic art student. Thanks for the inspiration.
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From: Andrew Rogers <casc...@gmail.com> |
To: Molesk...@googlegroups.com |
Thank you for all your replies. With so much good advice I feel as if
I am in the old 'Kung Fu" television series with David Caradine. From
now on call me 'grasshopper'. I didn't realise so many Holey Molers
were so Zen. With all this spiritual moley advice I am sure to reach
Nirvana clutching my little perfect book with perfect little
scribbles, paste in, dreams and aspirations on every page; oh yeah and
probably a shopping list or two.
Any more good advice keep in coming. That pesky Nirvana changes its
position quite regularly.
Thanks again to all my cyber-senseis.
Elisa
Iam a visual arts student and the other day a
fellow student opened his Moleskine and just started scrawling notes
in it. I was aghast with shock and envy.
I think it's fascinating you're an arts student, since what you are describing reminds me of a story from the life of Winston Churchill. I don't have my books handy to type out the full description, but I did find a summary and a partial excerpt on the website of The Churchill Centre:
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=576
Thanks for the advice. I have 2 weeks of Uni left and then I am sure I'll be going Moley Crazy with all this great advice.
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From: Tob...@aol.com <Tob...@aol.com> |