So this morning, I flitted through the Good Weekend articles on Justin Hemmes (I remember his mother’s clothes shop on Bourke Street, I went in once, shyly) and food waste. Resolved to investigate Farmer’s Pick and saw a book by Annie Smithers that I will buy, and wrote down the names of these last two things in my Milligram Daily Undated notebook.
The notebooks, the landing zone
I carefully and with a sense of some relief read New Minimalism (by Cary Fortin and Kyle Quilici) about two years ago, trying to make sense of how to manage the THINGS in my life, which were threatening to overwhelm. One of the takeaways for me from this was the requirement for a “landing zone” in the house for the things commonly required to make a quick exit from home, or regularly used and unloaded, e.g. keys, glasses, purse - and this tray, on our bedroom tall boy, is where my Milligram notebooks sit, one weekly undated and one daily undated.
When they are filled, they go on a bookshelf with the date span written in fluoro crayon on the cover and new ones are started.
Sometimes my keys and glasses also sit on the launchpad, though often these days my son (37, ASD and ID and I will not talk about this much here), has decided they live on my bedside table, so the ‘unloading’ and ‘reloading’ aspect of that space has lost its impact for fungibles/tangibles, if not for ideas and tasks.
But that’s okay. It’s still a great spot for the notebooks, and encourages me to use them quickly in the mornings, when I have the most GTD notes to make quickly. It’s also a good spot to find them and set some goals any other time of the day or evening. NOT the middle of the night though.
#blogjune as #writingprompt
But to return to the notebook in use and the morning notes made - I started to draw as it was nearly time for me to take over assisting my son. I tried to draw a book on the table in front of me.
After about three minutes I realised my efforts were out of proportion, and considered getting up to collect another journal with blank pages, to try again. Then I thought happily of Con and her beautiful #blogjune drawings, and decided to get this down instead. So thanks for the prompts, Con and Kathryn and friends!
#blogjune #writingprompts #ASDlife
Fortin, Carly and Kyle Quilici. New Minimalism: Decluttering and Design for Sustainable, Intentional Living. Random House US, 2018.
Smithers, Annie. Recipe for a Kinder Life. Thames and Hudson, 2021.
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