"Keepers of notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and
resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted
apparently at birth with a sense of loss."
Joan Didion
[Thanks JC!]
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…and that psychological profile is based on what?!
People who use notebooks know memory is as fallible as an old diskette, but a good notebook can survive with full intergrity well beyond the lifespan of the author, through many generations.
People who use notebooks work with ideas and information. We are creative and expressive, reflective and observant.
Our notebooks are, often, private places where vague ideas are nurtured into actions and creations for the outside world.
We are not a “different breed”; we are all human.
We are not “malcontents”. necessarily; we are more likely to have a broader perspective of life, having more deeply considered our time and place, having thought it out on paper.
We are not “children afflicted apparently at birth with a sense of loss” –whatever that’s supposed to mean; we mature with every fresh page, and everything of true value is saved, never lost.
We are unique individuals, a fact verified by each unique journal.