journal daily

I have written in my journal every single day since January 1!

I use Moleskine journals exclusively after having had a truly magical experience with one while I lived in Europe, where I journaled for pages and pages each day. I have a few different kinds-the little pocket ones with the brown covers for quick ideas for poems and quotes, the classic reporter (unlined) for writing completed poems for collection purposes, the reporter (lined) for everyday rambling. Big, small, I love them all. But I use only these notebooks.

For Christmas, I received a classic reporter that is unlined, and I need to go exchange it tomorrow for either a large one (which I have never used) or my favored lined reporter.

January 1, it’s on, baby.

I don’t write in my journal each day. That’s awful! I’m a poetry major. It’s what we DO. I wrote every day when I lived in Italy, and that was the richest creative period of my life. I hereby resolve to journal each day, because I feel it is of great importance to my spiritual and creative health.