Journaling
I bounce back and forth between being a seasonal and daily journal writer.
Journaling
In its most customary form, “commonplacing,” as it was called, involved transcribing interesting or inspirational passages from one’s reading, assembling a personalized encyclopedia of quotations. There is a distinct self-help quality to the early descriptions of commonplacing’s virtues: maintaining the books enabled one to “lay up a fund of knowle
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1. Inner Life & Identity (Self-in-Context)
What part of me feels most alive or most distant today?
What assumptions about myself did I notice, reinforce, or challenge?
Where am I performing, and where am I simply being?
What part of me wants to be seen—but hasn’t yet found the words?
What feels like “mine,” and what feels inherited or borrowed?
What
Describe one of your hobbies.
What worked for you today?
In a perfect world I_______________.
Write a song about___________.
If you could choose a different first name, what would it be?