However much I don’t want to admit it, this is the last year of my 30s. To mark it, I’ve decided to write one letter a month, by hand, to someone who has shaped how I think. You can read more about that project here.
The first task was finding the stationery. I only really had one requirement - a specific size of letter. I didn't want a pocket size nor did I want a huge blank piece of A4 - I wanted something inbetween that wouldn't feel so intimidating but also with enough space for a handful of considered thoughts to flow through.
I found the perfect set at Choosing Keeping (of course) and I started writing my first letter immediately…but I ran out of room before I’d properly got started…kicking myself I started again, and had the same problem.
Part of this (if you can’t tell by now) is I write as I think - same as I do with talking (sorry to anyone who has had to find the endurance to listen to my voice notes) but it got me thinking about something I had seen in a museum once, long ago, letters written using cross writing.
I wondered at the time - why would you put your reader through that - but, after a bit of research, I’ve decided to give it a go, for my first letter. If anything to save me the pennies of going back to Choosing Keeping and buying more of their beautiful stationery…
It was that research that inspired this fortnight’s commonplace page:
Commonplace Pages is a fortnightly post for members of the Studio as a behind the scenes of thinking, in a way.
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