On Journal Keeping

 

 The above picture captures the books and journals that I am currently reading, re-reading, generally refering to and/or writing in.  I often choose books just for their titles and the  The Elegance of the Hedgehog intrigued me for that very reason.  Choosing books like this is similiar to choosing a wine for the beauty of the bottle which I have also been known to do.  One thing for sure with this method is you never know what you might get.

While reading this book I have come across so many words and lines that I have circled or underlined that had an eloquence to them that I wanted to remember.  While reading last week I came across these words and they reminded me of this post that I had done earlier:

The lines gradually become their their own demiurges and, like some witless yet miraculous participant, I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something that I neither knew nor thought I might want to know.  The painless birth, like an unsolicited proof, gives me untold pleasure, and with neither toil nor certaintiy but the joy of frank astonishment I follow the pen that is guiding and supporting me.
~The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

I have not kept to journaling as much these past few weeks and this was a nice reminder of what I am missing.