It’s not just to tell stories.
I discovered that today as I wrote a blog for Tote Bags. I’m blogging over at Tote Bags ‘n’ Blogs tomorrow — Thursday. So please stop by and say hi. I’m talking there about one of my favorite shopping spots in the whole world. Not a specific spot – a type of store.
It’s a big draw at this time of year – when everyone is headed back to school. Only I went there yesterday to shop for a birthday present.
Where?
The office supply store, of course.
Remember the concept of the paperless office? Me, neither.
Well, I do have a vague memory of it being an ‘ideal.’ But do I have one? Not on your life.
I have so much paper that I really do scan stuff to try to make a dent in it. But at the same time, I’m forever taking notes and more notes. I love taking notes.
It’s the kinesthetic learner in me. I learn it if it goes in through my fingers as I write. That’s about the only way I remember it.
I can hear it and keep it for a while. See it? No, that’s not very useful for me. It helps, but it doesn’t ground me.
For example, seeing pictures of Santa Barbara wasn’t enough to get me back into the ambiance. I needed 
to have my feet on the ground. Same thing with note-taking.
Which is why I buy notebooks. And write in them. Because if I don’t, the memories are all too fleeting. But if I make notes they jog my mind and take me right back to the time and place – I remember the feelings I had, the thoughts that were going through my mind, And writing them down instills the memory even more deeply.
It’s why I write. To remember.
I love notebooks. I’m pretty sure I have enough to carry me through the rest of my life now. Writing is supposed to engage the creative part of your brain. Unfortunately when I write my right shoulder drops about two inches and I start to look scarily like the Hunchback of Notre Dame so I have to behave myself with my notebooks
Dear LATP (Lady Across the Pond) I am delighted to read this blog. I have a particular reason for being delighted about this particulare blog – one you will discover soon – but sadly a little late for your natal day of the 13th. I had planned it for then but it will arrive slightly later than I had hoped. But i do hope that my gift pleases you as this post has led me to believe it will
Your affectionate
Sid ACOSB
Lacey, I’m trying to envision you as the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Also trying not to laugh. Enjoy your notebooks. Glad to find another like-minded soul!
My dear Sidney!
How kind of you to stop by the blog and leave a comment. And if there are promises of ‘notebooks’ or suchlike in my future, you can believe I will be most awfully pleased.
I hope you are having a dry spell so that you can go out in the garden and enjoy the sunshine and the birds (and that Flora will not pounce on you).
With love, head-rubs and ear-scratches,
TLATP
Hi Anne!
Just wanted to stop by today and say HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! I hope you have a great day!
Thanks, Lacey! Really appreciate it!
I too am a chronic note taker. DH just shakes his head at this point when I open up another notebook or sketchbook and start writing more notes. I’ve been purging lately though. Have to say, it feels pretty good!
Alice, I’ve been ‘purging’ too — but I can’t quite bring myself to throw away a lot of notes I’ve taken because they bring back times and places — and feelings about them — that otherwise would recede into some deep dark hole that used to be my memory from which I could recall things, but more and more seems to be just a black hole. So I like having those ‘memories’ on tap to turn to, either deliberately or unexpectedly.