Comments on: Sonnet written upon finding that the ‘blank book’ I’d been saving for the right moment was really a 2013-2014 calendar

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:57:44 +0000

In reply to ARC.

@ARC – I’ll probably wind up giving the planner to my kids to play with and draw on. But that would be an interesting idea, to simply write on it anyway. Maybe it would kill the inner perfectionist! (Not that I really have one).

And thanks — sonnets are like crossword puzzles. Just challenging enough to be fun.

By: ARC

ARC — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 06:42:52 +0000

FWIW, I use a Moleskine 2009 planner to write my morning pages in, because I just couldn’t go back to using a paper planner after discovering the wonders of Outlook in 2002, even though the Moleskine was so pretty. Now I just free-write over all those little boxes.

Love the sonnet 😀

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 01:54:16 +0000

In reply to Carrie Willard.

@Carrie – exactly. I was saving it for the right thoughts to write in there, and never noticed it was a calendar. For an 18-month period that’s 17 months gone! Ah… spend out. I hope you had as good a Thanksgiving as possible.

By: Carrie Willard

Carrie Willard — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:46:05 +0000

Occurrences like this are the reason Gretchen Rubin says to spend out. I have a tendency to save things too long.