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.
Questions to Bookend the Day
Morning
What’s on my mind?
What can I reframe?
What am I looking forward to?
Evening
What will I let go of?
What am I proud of?
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.
This is visually poetic. Calming and moving.
So beautiful! Thank you for sharing this today - it is *just* right.