My dad got me hooked on this planner in middle school when he and I went and bought our empty leather binders and picked out all of the page tabs and pockets and dividers we deemed applicable to our respective lives. I've bought the refill pages to put in that same black leather binder, at more or less the beginning of each year up until 2007, when my expat life got in the way. This year I've got a smaller, non-refillable planner that Luis went all the way to San Francisco to get for me for x-mas.
This project of mine is an effort to get myself to create more; hopefully with an overarching structure and deadline, my lazy butt will get whipped into shape. My goal is to draw a thing a day for a year - something I want, but am not buying. Realistic things, things that I've been able to buy for myself in the past, but stuff that I'm not springing for now. So no jets or ponies or castles. It's a response to our trying economic times (pleasant euphemism for everyone being broke), and not being able to have everything we want. It's an experiment in an alternate consumerism - is it possible to derive satisfaction only from drawing and spending time with a concept of a thing, rather than possessing the thing itself? Here's hoping to yes, 'cause you won't be catching me with any of this stuff any time soon.
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