But first,

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Use it well and live consciously.

Now, here’s something for the paper-lovers among us, I mean blank paper, not just words on them. Journals, diaries, notebooks, lists (also called Liszts).

From the online Thesaurus:

notebook: noun, notepad, exercise book, register, logbook, log, diary, daybook, journal, commonplace book, memorandum book, record book, personal organizer; Brit. jotter, pocketbook; N. Amer. scratch pad; French cahier; informal memo pad; trademark Filofax.

Sound familiar? Some of those must either clutter or clarify your life, and more recently-

The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future

by Ryder Carroll | Oct 23 2018

This “invention”, duplicated in paperback, gold & marble covers, , dot-to-dot, with or without a stencil (?) book mark, has spawned at least a dozen copycats, right down to one titled “Shit to Do”, and of course it has overflowed into computer programs with fancy pages and spreads with inspirational quotes, doodles, recipes, number of steps per day and so on. But all it is, basically, is a to-do list, for every conceivable thing to do or keep track of. I love lists and I love to feel organized, but this tracker/journal/whatever is too much and far too dangerous and beguiling. One risks paying more attention to the lists and layouts than to the content and directives. I still love paper. I’ll settle for the paper scraps I harvest from the written, obsolete sides of a typewritten page, thus using the other side and sparing the planet (trees) for a few seconds longer.