HEALTHY INSANE

In a time zone that I don't really understend

[minimavisibilia]

Mitchell Kehe Untitled 5 (the wheel turns) 2023 Acrylic paint, chalk pastel, flocking, enamel on polyester on canvas 140 x 80 cm (55 x 31 ½ in)

[nemfrog]

Shows standard colors and conventions for drawing topographic maps.

Principes du dessin de la carte topographique/Principles for drawing topographic maps. 1825.

David Rumsey Map Collection

[tiny-systems-co]

Pull Out One Important Sentence

A diary page does not need more decoration to feel designed. Sometimes it needs one sentence with more visual weight.

Let the page have a focal point

When every line has the same size, the important thought can disappear inside the body text. Pulling out one sentence gives the page a clear emotional center.

Choose it after writing

Do not force the pull-out line before the entry exists. Write normally first, then select the sentence with the most emotional weight.

The pull-out sentence tells the eye what the page is about.

Use size, breathing room, and a quiet return to body text. The page should still feel like a diary entry, not a poster.

Images are original diary layout mockups, not screenshots of an app UI. Use this as a general layout habit for paper journals, digital planners, or note apps.

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[rearte2]

by Paul Jenkins, 1976

[mybluewindow]

Franz Kline - Untitled, 1958

[anxeious]

an edward bawden calendar 1930

[lavenderblue-8]

Wrote this on the last day of school

[withdiverse]

Some people ask you to be vulnerable only because they are curious, not because they are careful. There is a difference. Your wounds know it immediately.

[withdiverse]

some advice for people who want to write honest poetry

stop trying to sound poetic immediately. the best poems usually sound emotionally true before they sound impressive.

specificity matters more than drama. instead of saying: “I felt lonely.” say: “I started talking to myself in grocery stores because silence followed me home.”

let your poems breathe. not every line needs to be profound. silence matters too.

write like you are telling the truth to one person. not performing sadness for an audience.

your wounds are not your only material. write about survival too. about tenderness. about becoming. about identity. about strange small beautiful things.

read poetry outside social media. read older poets. read uncomfortable poets. read poets who make you pause.

stop fearing simplicity. simple writing can still devastate people emotionally.

honesty will always outlive aesthetics. eventually readers can tell the difference between curated sadness and lived experience.

write the sentence you are afraid to admit. that is usually where the real poem begins.

remember: poetry is not about sounding broken beautifully. it is about making somebody feel less alone.

[yama-bato]

Jean DEGOTTEX (1918 - 1988) HORSPHERE SPIRE II - 1967 Technique mixte sur papier marouflé sur carton

[love-personal]

[januaryhoney]

Late Spring, Mary Oliver

[portalibis]

"Convert the natures of the Elements and thou shalt find what thou seekest. To convert the natures is to make a body a spirit in our Magistery, first we make of gross thin, and of a body water, and by consequent we make that which is beneath as that which is above, and the contrary, for the bodies dissolved are reduced to the nature of spirits, and they be never separated asunder, like as water is mixed with water, and truly all the regiment and work is none other, but water permanent having in himself all things which we need."

— Georgius Aurach de Argentina, Donum Dei

Art: Toeltius, Johann Georg: J. G. Toeltii, Des Welt-berühmten Philosophi Coelvm Reseratvm Chymicvm Oder Philosophischer Tractat, c. 1737

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