Episode 61: Artist’s Notebooks: for the Poets and the Dreamers
In a day and age where the universe is at our finger tips and we can meander the world with a smart phone in our pocket. A device that has the ability to solve most of our problems, pay the bills, track your kids, read you a book, take you from A to B, or wander the streets with an incantation of Max Richter in your ears while you lose yourself in the city of Bologna. Is it wise to bring a notebook to jot down ideas and thoughts when one could just as easily leave a voice message or make dot points on the Notes app on that back pocket device?
Yes, I think it is. I have started to notice in my day to day just how many people are using writing tools again, like the morning pages, like journalling to figure their lives out, like writing personal memoirs. Writing yourself into living is going gang busters in self development circles, turning up at the page is a gift. I think when you need clarity or you want to problem solve writing it down short cuts the over analytical parts of ourselves. Personally a journal is my best companion on the travel adventure, but as a life tool I think there is more to this old world method of scribing words. And if this is not your thing, well this is for the poets and dreamers and the ones who have been enjoying a moment or two on the journey with me…
Aperitivo time in the Piazza San Stephano…..
Here is the third and final instalment of the travel diaries, few more cherished moments spent writing in Cafes, Restaurants and on trains in Italy, London and France…. The writer Natalie Goldberg once said, “Our task is to say a holy yes to the real things of our life as they exist, the real truth of who we are”…. Here is me saying a holy yes!
At the Pasticcerea Nobile in Venice, how many breakfasts can a girl have?
Breakfast in Italy, one of my favourite times of the day!!
At Giverny in Monet’s Garden in spring….A moment from the travel diary share
Monk’s House in Rodmell, Lewes, East Sussex in the United Kingdom, the home of Virginia and Leonard Woolf….
The beauty of their garden, here is the clematis in full bloom!
"Still, life had a way of adding day by day" - Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
