Words and Wisps: Bookending the Day and Writers as Wayfinders

Leaving a record of discovery through a terrain of thought.

Words and Wisps is a personal ritual and reminder to write weekly and assemble monthly. Stitching together photos and handwritten notes to create a space for a slow scrolling, minimal hyperlinking, and thinking through ink.

I recently wrote about my process adapting productivity frameworks for personal and team-based knowledge management. Part-essay, part facilitator’s guide, and based on past workshops I’ve designed and run, I detail the steps to create your own digital organizational system, how the process is more about intuition than imitation, and why it begins with pen and paper.

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Questions to Bookend the Day

Morning

1. What’s on my mind?

2. What can I reframe?

3. What am I looking forward to?

Evening

1. What will I let go of?

2. What am I proud of?

3. What am I grateful for?

The Distance Between Epiphanies

Reframing each book I read as a collection of daily meditations. With chapters marked not by a table of contents, but mapped out by the distance between personal epiphanies. 

The Span of a Sunset

Before, during, and after sunset. The late-afternoon sky across a distance of 20 minutes.

Writers as Wayfinders

First drafts are chaotic and clumsy, but there's an unspoken generosity in writers as wayfinders. Moving in all directions with frenzy to prepare a clear path for the reader. Leaving a record of discovery through a terrain of thought.