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#morningpages

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Michael Gisiger :mastodon:

Hey, #fountainpen and #journaling people, I have a question for you:

I’m sure some of you also write #MorningPages. I started last year as part of a 30-day challenge and have been writing my three A4 pages five to six times a week ever since. I use a cheap Oxford college pad, but with their fountain pen-friendly Optik Paper.

Now, my question: What do you do with your Morning Pages? Do you go back and read them later (Cameron recommends waiting at least eight weeks)? Do you keep the notebooks? I’ve already filled four college pads but have never reread them and don’t intend to. That’s why I’m considering disposing of them while ensuring my privacy.

What’s your take on this?

(Yeah, I'm bad at taking pictures, so this is a photo from Unsplash by Debby Hudson.)

A vintage dip pen with a dark wooden handle rests on a handwritten letter in elegant cursive script. Delicate purple flowers lie beside it, adding a touch of nostalgia and romance. In the softly blurred background, a closed notebook is partially visible.
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#MorningPages 28 February 2025
10. Ventôse honoring the Spade, St Conaire, Kalevala Day, Moina Mathers b. 1865, Hekate’s Deipnon*, Parade of Planets, Economic Blackout
#Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted
#FountainPen Lamy AL-Star - marron, EF
#ink Diamine Pick Me Up (dk brown)
#tarot or #OracleCards Secret Pocket Oracle
#CardOfTheDay 7 Tooth-losing a thing considered permanent; 58 Saturn-adversity, hardships, authority, control; 69 Harp-divine inspiration, lulling the enemy

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “It would be naive to believe that Western consumers haven't profited from these global divisions since the earliest days of colonialism. The Third World, as they say, has always existed for the comfort of the First. What is a relatively new development, however, is the amount of investigative interest there seems to be in the unbranded points of origin of brand-name goods. The travels of Nike sneakers have been traced back to the abusive sweatshops of Vietnam, Barbie's little outfits back to the child laborers of Sumatra, Starbucks' lattes to the sun-scorched coffee fields of Guatemala, and Shell's oil back to the polluted and impoverished villages of the Niger Delta…This book is hinged on a simple hypothesis: that as more people discover the brand-name secrets of the global logo web, their outrage will fuel the next big political movement, a vast wave of opposition squarely targeting transnational corporations, particularly those with very high name-brand recognition.” — Naomi Klein, No Logo (1999). Below the text are three small cards as described in the post.
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Victoria

#MorningPages 19 February 2025
1. Ventôse honoring Coltsfoot, Birthday of Minerva, Lesser mysteries begin*, Copernicus b. 1543
#Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy Safari - candied violet, EF
#ink Diamine Raise a Glass
#tarot or #OracleCards Lineages of Change Tarot
#CardOfTheDay 13 Death - reversed - “Are you the last to know that you have changed? Let the composting begin — keep moving toward life.”

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Matter doesn’t disappear, it transforms. Energy is the same way. The Earth is layer upon layer of all that has existed, remembered by the dirt. It is time to turn capitalism into a fossil, time to turn the soil, turn to the horizon together. If, as you are engaging these elements, a clearer framework appears, or an additional piece, that’s good news. Let’s all be conduits of the wisdom of this planet. I think any efforts to engage the emergent brilliance of our world will help with this turning, will help with liberating humanity from its current role as a virus Earth should shake off.” — adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy (2017) Below the text is a purple fountain pen lying at angle next to the upside down Death card with a collage of reddened human skull lying on the smaller skulls of animals and crowned with pink and yellow roses. Next to the card is a swatch showing a purple ink that shades to black bronze sheen and green shimmer.
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Victoria

#MorningPages 18 February 2025
30. Pluviôse honoring the Sleigh, Toni Morrison b. 1931, Audre Lorde b. 1934, Pluto discovered 1930
#Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Platinum Prefonte - dark emerald, M
#ink Maiora Writing Culture Verde capodimonte
#tarot or #OracleCards Tarot of the Cosmic Seed
#CardOfTheDay Messenger of Coins - Messages from the earth elements, ground yourself often

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post in the middle of the page with additional text: “I don’t feel like being strong, but do I have a choice? It hurts when even my sisters look at me in the street with cold and silent eyes. I am defined as other in every group I’m a part of. The outsider, both strength and weakness. Yet without community there is certainly no liberation, no future, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between me and my oppression.” — Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals (1980). Above the text is a card with a collage image of a brown-skinned feminine presenting person wearing a t-shirt, shorts and hiking boots with a flannel shirt tied around their waist. One leg is kicked behind in the air and they are holding a pentacle and two large pink flowers. A sunburst is positioned behind their head. Next to the card is a swatch showing an emerald green ink. Below the text a dark green, translucent plastic fountain pen lies across the page.
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