Do You Want More Handwritten Articles?
I've started a new journal today, who wants to see more?
I’ve previously dabbled in writing posts by hand in my journal and then uploading the photos into posts:
Here’s the journal I used, now complete:
The book truly was one of “radical healing”! When I started it I was still often at my lowest with the PTSD and now, just over 2 months later, I’m about 70-90% better on any given day thanks primarily to the new medication, the support of my parents, and the love of
.Now that I’ve acquired two new journals from the same cool “Leather Village” company based in India - one bigger, the other smaller - I’d like to start doing that more. What do you think? Check ‘em out:
Silly me, I didn’t realize when I bought this new journal to replace the one I finished yesterday that it was tinier than the one my future mother-in-law had gifted me for Christmas. So after
encouraged me, I decided to buy a much larger one and use this one to collect Bible verses, quotes, bizarre facts, and provocative statistics that I could turn into a short book:
While I’m generally going to put other people’s quotes in the book, here’s one I wrote in my main journal which I might transfer over to this tiny one:
Here’s the much bigger one, which I started yesterday after finishing the previous journal just after midnight yesterday:
Since I usually feel so much better first thing in the morning now, here’s what I decided to title it:
Would you like to see more handwritten articles from my journal and more
hand-drawn art from his sketchbook? Should I start encouraging more of our writers to follow us down this fun path?Have other thoughts on us potentially expanding this content? Are there types of articles or art you’d like to see? Are there other contributors you’d like to write some pieces by hand? Who should I start giving some editorial nudges?
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