How to Journal (For Mental Health!)
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- Join me in journaling in real time in my actual journal! I also speak about the fountain pen I am using, my back up fountain pen, and some interesting issues in my life. It is almost like me being there with you!
Let's walk through an actual journal entry!
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This video features Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 from the free TH-cam Audio Library and it's not a bad version.
A new word - inkcorporation - the process of using a previous ink spray as part of future handwriting.
Very nice! I can get behind that! Well done, My Friend.
Please do more of these. I need the technique that employs a cattle prod to dislodge the guy looking over my shoulder as I try to journal. I miss you, but am glad you're getting a rest.
Thank you, My Friend! I will do some more of these very soon. Thank you!
It's interesting how differently people approach journaling. It was interesting to see how you handle it. To me, the biggest thing is to get it out of my brain onto paper. Spring has never bothered me, until last year. Some things happened and I had to take a break from the news, TH-cam, friends, and everything. I even had a couple of days hiding indoors. My writing put it in perspective after I got into a better headspace.
The past few years have been difficult in my profession, so I've made myself do what you talked about: don't make important decisions when you're in a bad headspace.
Hello My Friend. I feel your words deeply. Sometimes you can only put your head down, shield yourself, and wait for time to pass for things to improve. Know that I am always wish you all the best.
Thank you for sharing your Journaling. Studies have shown depression is more prevalent in the spring than any other time of year. When my son passed from suicide I have been researching about depression since. I have learned so much. Your videos are really inspiring with Journaling and as a therapeutic outlet. I really appreciate you. Thank you again for posting.
I am so sorry you had to go through that, Cheryl. Thanks for reaching out. I will keep making content like this. It is so important. Thank you for the encouraging words.
This is one of the more selfless acts I've seen featured on TH-cam. It's an act of courage, the real kind and not the one force-fed us in war films and the like. There is the courage that overcomes adversity, and then there is the more lasting one of embracing our fears and anxieties. Noting all of its dangers (literally, in your case here), its seductive call to despair, a siren song to throw in the towel, allows us to objectify. "It's not me, it's just a feeling." Journaling helps achieve this, I'm convince.
Opening yourself to The World like this, sharing your fears but also your strength, your family, is a gift to us beyond measure.
Last week was my birthday and we're the same age. There's time, yet. "Time for you and time for me," as Prufrock says. 😂
Thank you, Chaz, for your kind words and encouragement. I sincerely appreciate them. Happy Birthday! Let’s come and go speaking of Michelangelo. All the best!
@@HemingwayJones 🤝
Timely, Hemingway, but I will have to catch the rest of this tomorrow.
The importance of writing hit quite hard today when I heard the news of Gordon Lightfoot's passing. Amazing how a storyteller is not a stranger once you've heard a moving tale.
"All the gentle strangers who by nature do not smile, to everyone who cannot hold a pen, bless you all and keep you on the road to better things, Heaven can be yours just for now."
I can't match Lightfoot's art. Some dim resonance seems in the air, though. Tonight, the screen, every scrap of paper, and every tool that can make a mark demands restless expression. The usual cacophony in my head sounds unusually organized. I think there's a story in there, and I think it's going to be a late night.
I hope so.
Thanks My Friend. That is a tough loss. I only knew the hits, but what hits they were. A gentle insightful voice silenced. Wishing you all the best, My Friend and thanks for watching.
It seems that I began journaling when I was 20 years old; that was a lifetime ago (I am 62, and Hemingway, you are a kid 😂). My first entries in a journal (the Coast Guard still calls it a logbook) were when I was assigned to a Lighthouse in Puerto Rico; I was a lighthouse keeper during my first tour of duty. Everything was logged onto the logbook, including weather, maintenance, aids to navigation, etc. At the end of the day (Zulu time), everything written was typed with a manual typewriter, yes, sir, manual 😂. For eight years, from one station to another station, the dynamic was the same. When I joined the US Marshals, I went back to journaling to document everything daily; you have no idea how journaling kept my butt safe. Now that I retired, you might think you have all the time in the world, but it is not true. With so many things to do and not enough time, I feel that I am the guy in that episode from The Twilight Zone. Enjoy your youth, my friend, life is too short.
Best regards, and stay safe.
Thanks so much for the kind words, Luis! Some days I feel more spry than others. Wow, lighthouse keeper, that is so unique. That would make for an interesting memoir. (By the way, I love manual typewriters. I have several videos on them on this channel). Thanks for the great comment. Warm regards to you, My Friend.
I agree. I have had depression almost my entire life. Journaling has also helped me to manage depression.
Thanks so much, Fritz. I’m there with you, My Friend.
I loved your video. I love your approach to journaling. And I also got to know you more as a friend. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Thanks so much, Scott! I appreciate it.
I love how brutally honest you are.
Thank you. It’s my Super Power. 😂
Thank you for this raw video. Sharing as you did gave me a sense of freedom in my journaling. I’m looking forward to picking up mine & my fountain pen later!! I too am a depression battler. Thank you
Hello Linda, thanks so much for reaching out! I hope I can help to inspire you a little. I wish you well and hope you stop by again.
I think it takes a lot of courage to admit that you have suffered from a state of depression. The same courage and willingness to react that is needed to not fall back on it every day. Thanks for this wonderful video, I can say that I have the same kind of approach with my journal. I really liked the final music as always beautiful collages of you writing in beautiful places, of your family that accompanies you and accompanies us on this journey. We need people like you in this large community of enthusiasts. I wish you the best. Greetings from Italy (I sincerely think I met you in person at a seminar a long time ago).
Hello and thanks for the kind comment. I appreciate it. It’s nice to see you here. I subscribe to you, so it’s nice to hear from you. I really appreciate the kind words. It keeps me inspired. Thank you!
It is possible that we met. I am over there quite often as well. I have friends in Matera and in Venice. I hope to return very soon and with my family. Do you remember where it was?
Grazie per le perole simpatiche! Grazie per hai guardato il mio video!
@@HemingwayJones Thank you for subscribing I really appreaciate. You inspire me with your videos and spontaneous and sincere approach. Regarding the place we could have been met, I'm not sure, I have written you few moments ago two emails since it was a very "occult situation". Maybe I'm wrong, but in my mind, you were there taking your notes.
In occult world the melancholy (th-cam.com/video/z11pYvaLctY/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Smarthistory) is often a synthom of a very sensitive character. Love also your scenarios with so many books and beautiful Tarot.
Thanks so much for your kind words and for watching. All the best.
Hello HJ, I too find different months of the year hard, so it was helpful knowing that others do too. Thank you for your insight to journaling, I am an avid letter writer and have been for 44 years and in recent years have taken to journaling as well. My family is so used to seeing me with a fountain pen in hand writing. It feels like the most natural thing in the world to me.
Thank you for sharing and being so honest about your mental health. We should be able to talk more openly about it and perhaps if we did , more people would suffer alone. In my circle, it’s a common topic and that is part of my enduring.
Wonderful! Thanks so much for being here with me. I appreciate the kind words.
That was a fantastic video. I am also in my fifties, and no longer view birthdays as a perspective of age. I think of them as celebrating another orbit around the sun. 🙂
That's the spirit! Thanks so much for watching!
Hi
Your timing for this episode could not be better!
You are not alone about being down during April and May. They do not warn the April is suicide month for nothing. The point is to reach out and seek help and not be afraid or ashamed to ask. Too many people suffer in silence, but should not. Murder get all the headlines, but many more people die from suicide.
PS. journaling is a big help and doing it with a fountain pen is all the better. Flowing ink is totally Zen.
Hello RT, I didn’t know that about April. I’ll have to look that up. Flowing Ink is Zen! Thanks for the wonderful comment.
I had been getting things together to start journaling for my own mental health. I lost my wife about a year and a half ago to cancer. It's been tough, but I think I'll get through it.
I am so sorry to hear of this, Kevin. I am wishing you all the best always and know that you have a friend here. You will get through this because you must. Those of us who remain must always push forward and advance the memories and legacies of those we lost. We stay, we strive, for those who remain. Wishing you all the best.
@@HemingwayJones Thank you for the kind words. It's appreciated.
It is brave of you to share what some people think of weaknesses. There is something that you said that I totally relate with, the fact that we do not like our birthday. You are the only other human I know of that feels this way (I'm sure there are others, but I have not run into them).
Thanks! I am so glad you relayed to this. It means a lot.
I get it. But for me it’s some unpredictable random day when the season changes. We’re probably supposed to push that all into New Year’s resolutions…. Or perhaps sublimate crazy April emotions with a burst of spring cleaning, but I haven’t been able to swing that yet.
Thank you for this video! I have watched it twice already. Letting the simple but important points really sink in. And there were many. I can remember not even knowing how I felt and being ambushed by depression in the past. Eventually I printed out a page of "feelings" so I could look at it and list some of the ones that seemed to be what I was feeling. Then I found Brene Brown's beautiful book: Atlas of the Heart and I found that her descriptions helped me more deeply identify the "territory" I'd find myself in BEFORE it all became too much and had the potential to disable me. Whenever I can't figure out what on earth is going on emotionally I get into her book and locate the right words. I loved your words many of them will stay with me even individually (although I also wrote down some quotes): assessment, evaluate, deactivate, endure, survive.
💜 My recurring bouts with depression have not ever remitted as long as a decade but you give me hope!!!!
Hello Chris, My Friend. It is always lovely to hear from you and I especially appreciate your words here. I was almost hesitant to publish this one, but I felt that it was important and that something transcended the usual proceedings. I felt as if it were very important to share this with everyone. I thought that maybe something in the particularity of my experience might have some value for others. I am so glad that it has. Thank you so much for these wonderful words and the gift of your continuing friendship. I am always here for you.
Thanks for sharing not only some tips to how journailing, also for share your thoughts about depression.
Thank you, Juan!
Good morning, Hemingway. It's me, the late Bill Brockman again. Late to the conversation, that is. When I started practicing law in 1975, one of our local jurists was wonderfully misnamed "Judge Robert Early." He was never on time for anything. Hence, he was widely referred to throughout his time on the bench as "the late Judge Early."
Thanks again for a beautifully produced and supremely thought-provoking video. Here are some of the thoughts it provoked in my retired-after-45-years-practicing trial lawyer's mind.
First, it is wonderful to be retired. I loved practicing but don't miss it at all. Knowing the demands of the profession, I'm doubly grateful for what it takes for you to treat us to these videos.
As you probably know, lawyers, especially trial lawyers, have the highest rate of heart problems and heart attacks of any profession. Too, we are especially susceptible to drug abuse and alcoholism. I have to believe we are also high up in rate of depression. I know I felt tremendous pressure at many times and, while not having a clinical diagnosis, believe I have depression.
Funny thing. I used to insist I "had" to play golf once a week or more because I loved playing the game and needed the exercise. I often left the office at 5 and walked as many holes as I could during DST before sunset. Usually I was alone. Since retiring, I hardly play at all and when I do it is always with a good friend. I realize now my obsession/addiction was mainly a way of escaping the pressure of practicing law.
Now, I spend the time I used to spend on the links on other things, such as our family, volunteer activities and the fountain pen hobby---part of which is, of course, journaling.
Much as I wish I could invest in beautiful journals like those you use, my budget doesn't permit me to do so. However, I am fortunate to have a knowledgeable stationeer nearby. He recommended an Italian leather cover that is refillable with lovely, lined tablets sold by Fiorentina of NYC and made in Italy. Apropos to New Orleans, a fleur-de-lis is printed at the bottom of each page. The paper is off-white and very FPF. The initial investment was about $65 and refills are about $25. I think each tablet has 150 pages and are A4 or 5 in size.
Like you, I find journaling is an excellent way to deal with depression, as well as many other matters. For several years now, I've thought of my journal as a "gratitude journal." I read that if one reviews each day objectively, even days in which challenging events disrupted one's equilibrium, the number of good things usually outweigh the "bad." I have found there is much truth to that observation and reviewing each day in that manner definitely helps me keep things in perspective and combats depression.
Faith also teaches me that God can bring great good from any situation if one is open to allowing Him to work through him. In that vein, I commend to your attention St. Francis of Assi's teaching to Brother Leo on "perfect joy." assisiproject.com/2018/06/23/saint-francis-explains-perfect-joy/#:~:text=Saint%20Francis%20then%20said%3A%20%E2%80%9CBrother%20Leo%2C%20if%20we,note%20carefully%20that%20this%20is%20finally%20perfect%20joy%21%E2%80%9D
Hence, my journal contains a wide variety of incidents, happenings and reflections on them and how the challenging matters are God's way of forming me into the man I am meant to be. I've come to understand that God loves me just the way I am and He loves me too much to leave me just the way I am.
Too, at age 73 I realize I'm coming in for a landing. Therefore, I find myself thinking of how good or bad a day was in terms of how well I served God by serving the people He has placed in my life rather than how pleasant the day it was for me. Put another way, how well did I understand and carry out His will for me?
Being retired, I have the luxury of beginning most days simply entering into contemplative prayer and listening to what God may be saying to me. Don't misunderstand, I don't "hear" His voice. However, in a meditative state I often have thoughts/insights that I believe come from the Holy Spirit. These, too, go into my journal.
My method for recording this material has developed to this point, having changed over time with the growth of my pen and ink collection: I have about 40 pens and inks now and really enjoy each one of them. I try to use all of them on a regular basis. I have a 6 pen case, so I keep 6 pens inked at a time with different colored inks. I keep a log of each inking so I can rotate through the pens and inks, using each a more-or-less equal number of times.
As I move through each day, I enter each subject with a different pen and ink combination so that by the end of each entry, I will have used each of my 6 pen and ink combinations at least once. Makes for a delightfully colorful journal. You might even call it "funky."
As a young lawyer, I realized my strength was in writing. That became clear to my supervising attorneys, too. Hence, I found myself writing a lot of briefs, memos, pre-trial reports, client reports, etc. Many were very long. Sometimes, if I thought the lawyer for whom I was writing the document would not read it carefully, I would add a sentence in the middle of the document inviting him/her to contact me if he/she read it and I would buy him/her a drink. I never got called on it except once. Then by a lawyer I least expected to call. So, Hemingway, if you read this, let me know and I'll buy you a drink the next time you are in New Orleans.
Cheers,
Bill
Hello Bill, thanks so much for the thoughtful and generous comment. I sincerely appreciate it. By the way, I love Fiorentina. They make the B&N journals that are a good value for around $50 for an awesome leather journal. New Orleans sounds lovely. I want to get there sometime soon. Wish you all the best and check in again soon.
@@HemingwayJones Thanks, Hemingway. Time permitting (for you), I would very much enjoy saying "hello" in person when you get to N.O. I'm confident you'll continue to select subjects on which I'll weigh in from time to time. All the best.
Thank you for your welcome discussion of journaling and faith.
@@wlbrockman Thanks so much! When I go, I will definitely reach out! Thanks so much!
@@HemingwayJones And the drinks will be on me because it appears you read my comment to the end. 😉
Hey, I often get down in April as well. Half the battle is recognizing the patterns and addressing problems before they happen. Journaling is a nice way to put the concerns in perspective. I'm also the same way about my birthday as you are friend. You are doing just fine, you make great videos, pkease keep going.
Thank you for the kind words of support. I appreciate them.
First, I thought, "How does he do all that he does in a day?" Then I remembered, "You did all that and maybe more in your teaching career of thirty-six years of teaching, raising two boys, doing all the food shopping and preparation, cleaning house and doing homework, performing in community theater, and on and on!" See, you've made me feel good about myself! A reality check. I am very sorry that you suffer from depression but so very glad to hear that you understand and benefit from your personal healing process. Your honesty here is sure to help other members of the group who need journaling suggestions or help seeing their world as full of possibilities. Thank you so much.
Thanks so much for the kind words and for watching. I generally feel that the more you do, strangely, the more there seems to be time to do. Sounds like you have done some amazing things! All the best.
@@HemingwayJones There is a lovely little memoire in today's New York Times about how the writer was inspired to life-long journaling in, I think, seventh grade. I wanted to send it to you, but I don't know how to do that via the TH-cam site. Perhaps you've seen it; it's in 'Read Like the Wind," and is by Gregory Cowles.
@@elainelawson4965 Thanks so much Elaine! I am a longtime subscriber, but I haven't seen this particular article yet. It may be part of the Sunday print edition, but I will seek it out regardless. Thanks so much for letting me know! Another reason why I am passionate about the New York Times!
@@elainelawson4965 You can always send me a message on IG or the email on my bio page here at YT. Thanks!
Thank you Hemingway for sharing.
Thanks for watching.
Way to ensure, my friend. Inspiring. I could not agree more with the process of journaling to overcome depression. Recognizing the darkness- without giving it power. You are such a good man.
You are so kind in your comments and I appreciate it. I am so glad you are digging deep into the journaling videos. They are some of my favorites. I think you’ll like the one coming out on Jan 4th. Thanks for being here. You are an awesome voice here at the Channel.
Love the part about surviving
Thank you!
Bless your heart! If I tried to talk and write at the same time, goodness knows it would not make sense! Thank you for sharing a real journal entry and giving insight into your process. Your genuine approach and willingness to share is endearing, helpful, and inspiring. What an encouragement you are to any who watch. I’m sure you’ve given many the courage and freedom to be completely authentic through both struggles and joy. You make a difference. Thank you again, Hemingway.
Wow! Thanks so much! You are encouraging me and I appreciate it.
I struggle greatly in grappling with my own purpose, or rather, my current lack thereof.
I think, among other things, my life really lacks meaningful connection. I think it is absolutely critical to the general well-being of most people that one finds themselves intertwined with others in an enduring and meaningful way- whether that be having a family, close friends, a tight-knit community, etc.
In my experience, life becomes nearly unbearably difficult rather quickly in the absence of such social supports.
Hi Amber. Connections are so important and speak to purpose. For me, it is a major part of my life. I hope that you find your people. You are certainly welcome here; at this channel. Sometimes, your purpose is to go find it and to find your people. Your life has meaning and you have so much to share. This will work out for you soon. Let me know if I can do anything to help.
@@HemingwayJones Thank you for the kind words… I greatly appreciate them. I am glad to be able to stop by your channel, every now and then… and I think you are right, in that sometimes our purpose at a given stage of life is to find our purpose, our meaning, how we can connect to a sense of deeper, more enduring fulfillment. It is important that we each take care to forge our own path and to also reassess that path every now and again, to determine if it still calls to us in the ways it once did.
I’ll be here for you if you need anything. All the best.
I decided to journal along with you. I took out my 149 because I felt fancy, lol. I like that you did a short Journal entry because it shows that you do not have to write a book I order to journal. That you can simply say a few short things. Some times journaling can settle my mind and help me focus on the task at hand. It also lets me work through a problem or let me organize my feelings. I know organize feeling? Yes, because it let me to write through emotions, feelings, and I identify them. No matter if it's just putting down, Love, Happy, Anger... It allows me to focus on the underling thoughts behind those. I sometimes to the Who, What, Why, when, and How -- wrap up if it's a strong set of feelings. Journaling is different or everyone. It should hold a personal connection. Thank you or sharing!
Thanks so much, Ceit! This is a powerful comment and I appreciate it. I am so glad you enjoyed this video. Speak soon and thanks.
This was so beautiful and cathartic - thank you! I so relate to your journey with fountain pens and depression ❤❤❤
Thanks so much! I really appreciate the kind words.
I've found you on Tik Tok and that has guided me here, I've never known of journaling to exist until now!
I find it very interesting and i shall do alot of binge watching your videos to gain more knowledge before maybe giving it a try!
Thank you for the content
Keep strong my friend 💪
Thanks so much, Wayne! Thanks for being here. Let me know if I can help at all.
Great message at the end there. To survive no matter what. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much!
Thank you for the quiet intimacy of this program. I'm impressed that you've found this way to monitor your health. Impressed also that you write without a ruled guide under the page. Different impressions, different weights! I was struck that journaling succeeds when we know for whom we're writing. For me, writing to myself about my inner state was so occasional. Now, I am journaling for my progeny. I hope to be read. I hope also that there will be, in a century or so, a human society that held onto books and literacy. But, even in, say, 2075, I would love to think that my granddaughter, who then would be our middle age now, might appreciate the amazing woman that her great-great-grandmother was in 1975. So, I use my journal to remember. For myself, and for my family.
Brilliantly stated! Here, here! Thanks for the kind words and encouragement!
Wow. I feel the opposite. I do not want my kids to read my journals, all that insecurity and drivel. But I do love genealogy and so it’s a real quandary.
Thanks very much for this video! Well done and very helpful.
Thank you so much! I appreciate it.
I really enjoyed this video! Thank you for sharing how you incorporate how you are feeling in your journal writing. I keep a journal, but tend to write mostly about what I did during the day. I'm going to try to add more about how I am feeling both mentally and physically. I like what you said about adding a time stamp along with the date. You said, "It's sort of like a mile marker on the journey of your life." That's a great quote!
Hello Connie! Thanks so much! I am so glad that you enjoyed this and my way of thinking about it. I will continue to do these sorts of videos. All the best!
Dear Hemingway. Thank you for sharing your thoughts - I like to watch your contributions.
What ink do you use in this video? It looks really beautiful on this paper and that got my attention.
Thank you in advance for your reply!
Bernd
Hello Berne, Thanks very much for watching. This ink is J Herbin Perle Noire; an absolute classic. Thanks!
@@HemingwayJones Thank you very much. Take care and have a great time :-)
@@bm8778 Thank you!
This one came in well... straight from the heart, beautiful and sincerely honest. Great getting to know you my friend.
Sincere thanks for that. What a fountain pen and notebook can contribute to someone's life. Well done HJ.
Thanks Patrick! I am always heartened to hear from you, My Friend!
Wow Hemmingway, I too find spring the most difficult time of year for my mental health. I never look forward to spring, sure I may be tired of the cold by Feb but I kind of dread the spring blues. When summer hits I look forward each day knowing fall and winter are right around the corner and I will soon find my favorite times of year return. I am the only one in my family who feels this way so I allow myself to appreciate spring and summer by being happy to see the immense joy they all find in the seasons I wish I could hide from. Hoping you keep journaling through the spring blues to combat the clouds. Keep on writing!
Thanks so much, Blue! I appreciate it! I suppose you and I are just wired this way. I love Autumn as well. All the best!
Great video. My journaling is essentially the same, although I find myself asking more questions in my journal than I have answers for. Maybe it's because I'm new to both journaling and exploring my mental health. Better late than never.
That sounds like an excellent method. Not all questions are easily answered. Thanks so much, My Friend.
I know i am late to this video but im new to your channel and fountain pens. I got a lot out of this video. Very great words of wisdom and I ended up journaling in my new hobonichi with you and then i rewatched again to listen to your words more carefully. Take care
Thank you so much! I am so glad it was helpful. Thank you for watching and for the kind words!
18:03 First of all, happy birthday! I applaud your courage in sharing the details of some of your struggles with strangers, I don't think that I could ever do that!
I also put off making decisions when my emotions are not on an even keel, either too high or too low.
My main journal appears to be about the same size as yours. To prevent stamping, I use a fairly large ink blotter as a bookmark. I also have a smaller journal that I use to chronicle my journey with my fountain pen hobby. At present, I have 5 fountain pens inked, with different colors, I pick one pen and use it for all my writing on that day. To me, it makes my journal more colorful, less boring, and also makes it easier to tell where one entry ends, and another begins. I keep track of current events in mine, and I thank you for the idea that perhaps I should be a little more introspective as well in my entries. Thank you!
Thanks so much, Mike! I appreciate the kind words. That is a great practice, using ink to denote the end of an entry. Well done. Thanks so much for watching.
Thank you. Thank you
You are very welcome! Thanks for watching.
Thank you for sharing that, most appreciated. I enjoyed your honesty and the insight into your journaling content😀
Thank you and thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing your life experiences and tips. I wish you all the best and thank you for producing all the beautiful and informative content for viewers. I hope it lifts you to know that you are making a lot of people happy with your work here. Onwards and upwards my friend. 🙏
Thank you so much! I really appreciate this comment. Thanks!
Great video,there's a lady in our Bible group journal and I get her hook on fountain 🖋️ ,frank in Oswego,ill
Wonderful, Frank! I hope that all is well.
Thank-you for this!
Thank you for being here and for watching.
What a great video for Mental Health Month! I appreciate hearing how you use your journal and keep depression at bay. I usually start my journal with rather mundane things - how I started the day and what transpired throughout the day, but many times I end up writing about something that is on my mind. Sometimes those are good experiences and sometimes it is something that is causing me stress and anxiety. The fountain pen on paper has such a good feeling, too, and picking a pen and ink combination can help get the juices flowing. There are a few days, not many, that I simply don't have the time or energy to write. Those are not that often. When a journal is finished it is quite an accomplishment. I tend not to go back and read entries. That's not what is important to me. The most important thing is for me to write my thoughts and work through things that on my mind. Happy birthday! 🎂🎉 I have the same feelings about my age (now that I am in my early 60's). I feel like I'm much younger. I hope that feeling younger keeps me young 😊 I wish you many more happy and healthy birthdays! Can't wait until the next video.
Thank you so much and thanks for watching. I agree. I love the feeling of writing; that moment when the nib touches the paper. It’s brilliant. Thanks for the birthday wishes! Wishing you all the best and thanks for being here! Speak soon!
Thanks for your videos and especially this one. You are an amazing human being ♥️
You are too kind! Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your method and style of journaling. I tend to capture moments in time with my journaling. I describe to a future reader (mostly likely an older forgetful version of myself) what is going on in the world, in my world, and how I think or feel about it. I have journals going back 30+ years, and it is very interesting to see what I’ve forgotten. Details and funny stories of my children while growing up, trips I’ve taken, and just life in general. They create “memory markers” to help me revisit my own past.
Awesome video and topic!
Thanks so much, Steven! I appreciate the kind words. You have created a wonderful resource and treasure for your family. All the best.
Are we all excited for this? I think so!
Great my friend, I like to journal my self to, im a poet an artist and novel writer, in pandemic Times my art, and words help me alot. All words, fears, black thougts, loneliness, Alienation I put on paper in form of words, poetry ot sketches, paintings. I can say my friend, I feel the same like u. When I touch my pen, my MB 149, the big nib, the sound of my nib touch the surface of paper have a therapeutical, a healing inside throught pen, nib, ink like black ink blood, healing like a pasionate Kiss, brings u hope, this leep me going, and of course love of my life, my wife❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks!
Thank you so much! It is appreciated greatly! Thank you! As I said in the other comment, it really helps keep the Channel going. Thanks again and all the best.
I agree with enduring depression.
Thank you! Thanks for watching this. I appreciate it. I also appreciate your generosity. It helps keep the Channel going. Thank you! Happy to provide any inspiration I can to make your path brighter. All the best and thank you.
Just two years short of me... I understand your duplicity about getting older. Fit as a 30 y.o. with the wisdom of young Salomon or Buddha. 😆
Thanks Peter!
@@HemingwayJones Btw, always enjoy your videos. Most of my ink is used on journaling. A day not writing...anything with one of my FPs is a day not lived.
Journaling surely helps to keep me sane. Even sometimes repeating yourself for days on end.
Thanks so much. I agree. Me too. There is a lot of repetition but you are trying to learn from that, whatever it is.
wow youre in worchester? one of my best friends lives there and i was just there, you should do a meetup haha this was a GREAT video btw.
Thank you so much for the kind words! I don’t live in Worcester, but I am not too far from there. I visit there often. Thanks so much for being here.
Journal entries should not be handwriting practice! If anything, the writing style reflects our true emotions.❤
My whole journaling enterprise started out as handwriting practice back in the early 90s. Now, I try to keep it legible. You are right though; emotion and theme are front. Thanks so much!!!
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I don't think you look 56. I thought you were about 30 to be honest.
Thank you most kindly!