So many Topics for your Special Notebook
Mar 30th 2011Francois BeyensNotebook Computer
Is it a journal? Is it a diary? Is it a scrapbook? Three words that dominate the field.
It is up to you. You can have fun with already drawn shapes in which to write or draw. But you must like the first thing you see: the cover, the quality of the leather, how you hold it and open it. Even the way it is closed is important, leather ribbon, metal clasp, buttons. Not Velcro please, it does not fit with the elegance of the whole.
You must first love the sight of your cover, the perfection of the binding. You must want to hold it in your hand, feel the grain or the smoothness of the leather, the smell: this is special. When you get it, the first day it will smell of nice clean leather. Then, bit by bit, day after day, YOUR scent will penetrate, through your fingers or your hands, your breath and your soap, your eau de toilette or your perfume, it will become yours.
If you write general thoughts, you can leave it lying around, like that from time to time, passing by, you will touch it with your fingers, sometimes lift it, bring it to your nose and inhale the very particular mixture of your journal's scent.
Without even realizing it, you will create a special bond with the nicely tanned leather, with the purity of the color, with the solidity of the binding.
English not being my native language I sometimes fall short of words and have to look elsewhere for inspiration. Actually you can use it for so many things: to organize and plan, to write poems or short stories, to put down ideas before they disappear, to express the intensity of your feelings, to describe a special moment, the perfection of another one, the essential words of a conversation before you forget. Whatever you use it for, its insides will reflect the purpose for which you bought it, and even the exterior aspect will be part of it because it will remind you of what is inside. However you must be aware of something essential
Whether you will realize it or not doesn't matter very much. It will happen, and your special being will reveal iself through the contents of your pages. They will model the quality of your days, of your actions, of your thoughts.
Want to find out more about choice of leather journals, then visit Francois Beyens's site on how to choose the best leather bound notebook for your pleasure.
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