Words and Wisps: Closing the Loop to Open the Door
Hold it lightly in your head, then place it firmly on the page.
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. This series is evolving and experimental in nature and I welcome your thoughts as you read along.
As unfinished drafts and unrealized projects beckon, I’ll be returning to the original cadence of these letters, shifting from monthly to occasional. Always finding ways to make the ephemeral more enduring. Still finding ways to write by hand, even on a computer.
Questions
Where are you more prepared than you think? Where are you thinking more than preparing? What’s the worst that could happen if you got started, despite and in spite of your patience with the pause.
To Those Who Read This
To those who, for reasons unknown, choose to read your personal newsletter or blog. And the friendships loosely founded on the exchange of "thought of you" articles.
Snowy Scenes
A snowy stroll down memory lane.
Close the Loop
Text is merely a placeholder for what you’ve always known, always wanted to do, but neglected to articulate. So hold it lightly in your head, then place it firmly on the page. You’ll find that the structure, strategy, purpose, process, or some preordained path was never something to begin with, but to arrive at. Close the loop to open the door.
Abandoned Drafts
Learning that the drafts you abandon never quite abandon you. Your archives have a way of working on you and through you, showing up in new and unexpected ways.