"Why do I keep a notebook at all?"

“Keep coming back. It works if you work it, so work it, because you’re worth it.”

My reason is existential. By writing the things that pop into my head down into my notebook, I teach my brain that those ideas - my ideas - are worthy of being written down at all.

Each note becomes another brick of the house I’m building, a monument to a simple yet elusive truth: that what I notice is worth noticing.