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Plournal: Poetry

3/30/2018

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Original Post: March 30, 2018
Planner + Journal = Plournal - Thanks to Kell S.
My best friend is poet; a writer and a poet. In fact, I believe it was her poetry that brought us closer together so we could be best friends. We attended a Slam Poetry Meet together. You can see some of her writings here: Words of the Heart by PoetrySue
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While searching for bits of poetry for my April spreads, I turned to her and casually reminded her she was a poet.
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My first March 2018 Quote was by Jimmy Dean. I was tickled that it might be the sausage guy and after some research, found that it was... although, the origin of the quote went back much further.
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​“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”


​Not only is Jimmy Dean the sausage guy, but he was an American country music singer, television host, and actor. 
(August 10, 1928 – June 13, 2010)

The history of this quote goes back to 1859.
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In April, for my monthly spread, I went with Langston Hughes, a phenomenal "American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri."

​April Rain Song

Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.


The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night--

And I love the rain.


(February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967).
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I fell in love with Langston Hughes in my high school American Literature class.
The other pictures of April's monthly page spread can be found here.
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The piece I chose for Week 1 of April is by Michael Garofalo from GardenDigest.com and Greenway Research.
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The force of Spring -
​mysterious, fecund, powerful beyond measure.

See the full April Week 1 spread here.
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My conversation with my best friend consisted of me whining about the time it takes searching for the perfect quotes or poems.... but since she's a poet, during the last week of the month, she should just hand me a sheaf of papers with 4-5 poems, and I hand her some papers with calligraphy headers. Boom! A perfect trade. 

Since I figured that it probably would never actually work, I thought  if I make a list of the poets and writers I use this year, searching next year will be easier. 
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Prepping the journal collection page spread
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Finished journal collection page with a few names
Supplies used:
Mechanical pencils
Sakura Pigma Microns
Derwent Watercolor Pencils

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My Love for Crayola

3/20/2018

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It all started with the crayons, right.? Our love of coloring in things and drawing things and melting things.... As a calligrapher, Crayola broad-tipped markers are one of my first loves. The colors and the diversity of lettering styles I can create are amazing. Yes, I know they're not lightfast. Yes, I know they are not archival. But, according to Crayola.com, as of May 2017, they do meet the standards of being acid free. And of course, they are so very affordable. 
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Scribble by RosiMari

3/15/2018

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completed March 14, 2018
Thank you for letting me turn you original scribble into art, RosiMari.
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Innermost Self

3/14/2018

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“When we make things with our hands we put into them energy which comes from our innermost self."
The Story of Writing by Donald Jackson
I love making things for people I love. After making gifts and projects over the years, I've discovered that the best gifts seem to be produced when you see the person it is being made for in your mind's eye (as opposed with you real eyes 'cos then you'd be creating a real mess of work, right?). Or rather, with the thought of who that gift is going to always in mind. Color choices, flourishes, ornament, and everything else that goes into the crafting of an item all come from that innermost self where your feelings for the individual are intermingled with all the doubts, fears, memories, and hopes and dreams for the future with them. 
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(from a monogram created for a friend based on the 1595 de Bry Alphabet)
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Plournal : Planner, Journal, Bujo

3/10/2018

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As of December of 2017, I went from being a mere person carrying around a planner to a full on 'Bullet Journal' - er-ish. More like a planner/journal person or as one of my favorite online people called it, a PLOURNAL-er. 
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(Journals I have collected over the years.)
What's the difference between what I do now, than what I did before?
Before, I would buy a pre-printed planner and fill it in as colorfully as possible.I started with a daily I had gifted to me once a year, then into a weekly which worked awesomely for work with multiple appointments, to a personal monthly calendar with pages for journaling. One of the things I found in a sojourn across the web, was something called a collection. 
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(My still empty book tracker. March 2018)
This idea, to me, was AMAZING. It was so simple... just track the books you've read in a year... or the shows you've watched, or the movies you've seen, or the podcasts you've listened to, or the advice (good or ill) you've been given... Track it. TRACK IT ALL! But all on the same page in your journal. Whoa!

From there I learned about '*Bullet Journal' - a sort of DIY planner/journal. Its key is the future log and 'bullet' pointed tasks you can migrate to make your busy-ness more productive. Follow this link to the video by Ryder Carroll, who organized the system in the first place.

I have always been a person who takes a lot of notes. When I'm meeting with clients, if I have a meeting for church, if I am studying or researching for something upcoming. I like to write out synopses of my days, record awesome things that have happened or just jot down thoughts I may have had. So I adapted everything (it's a deep, dark hole, the "*BuJo" - Bu-llet Jo-urnal -  community) to something that would fit with what I was already doing and what I wanted to add.

​Further down the rabbit hole brought me to an article about ZIBALDONES. Zibaldones are catch-all books started by Venetian merchants in the late 1400's. 
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(Image: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)**
Zibaldones are what I WANT to carry because its already steeped in history. I LOVE HISTORY! But I like order, too... So I've decided to make sure I have a table of contents, my collections, and everything else under the sun.
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Just a few pages from the 1st couple of months scattered about that will now be contained in my Zabaldone Plournal.
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I consider everything from December (of the year 0001) until now, practice;  getting a feel for the method (and madness) and as of March 8, 2018, I fully dived into the community. Here are some practice pictures and the big one on the bottom is my new, official, monthly spread for March.
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Below is my 'official' March monthly page with a tracker for work & home.
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I am absolutely in love with this hodge-podge system AND it integrates my creativity far too well with the rest of my life. Expect many more doodles and drawings and artsy monthly calendars. I also plan on some pen reviews. I am on the hunt for an everyday writing pen to replace my current one. I recently discovered the ink is not archival quality... and as other lovers of history will tell you... that is pretty damn important. I LOVE IT!

* 'Bullet Journal' and 'BuJo' are both copyrighted terms and belong to Ryder Carroll and http://bulletjournal.com/
​** Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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