JOURNALS

Friday rolled around with its usual promise of a weekend breather, and here I am, scribbling away my thoughts of the day – well, technically, Kitty's doing the heavy lifting, but who's keeping track? Today's experiment with journaling has my brain whizzing. I've tasked Kitty to draft up my recent days into text. It's a bit nerdy, yes, planning to split each line of journal entry into separate SVGs, but it lets the creativity flow in ways I hadn't imagined before. While this might sound a bit like sending robots to do a human's job, it's strangely liberating, watching art unfold while my hands remain unstained by ink.

Diving deeper into the rabbit hole, today was supposed to be about journaling freely, and chat with a friend threw open the gates to this new realm of looseness I’ve been aiming for. Stiffness in creativity is like drawing with a straightjacket on — it doesn’t quite capture the spirit of what you’re trying to express. So, there I was, absorbing every bit of wisdom on how to let the journal flow more naturally.

On the technical front, fish and chips were the highlight of my culinary adventures, marking the end of a day that was both productive and reflective. The clock hands were inching towards evening when I turned my attention to drafting the #Weeknotes video. The satisfaction of crafting content is one thing, but balancing it with a dose of friend-time and British comfort food rounds off the day on a perfect note.

Reflecting on the casual cross between tech and traditional journaling makes me chuckle—here I am, plotting my life away, both figuratively and literally, with a machine that draws my thoughts better than my own hand does. An hour for a daily entry sounds tedious, but multitasking during the plotting leaves room for these reflective pauses, akin to pressing 'pause' on a fast-forward day.

The climax of the week, though, wasn't the tech tweaking or the food; it was the human connection, a reminder that stepping out of our silos brings fresh perspectives and warmth. Discussing life over journal talk, untangling thoughts that were more knotted than I realised, was today's unexpected treasure.

Now, as Kitty takes over the reins of recording today's escapades, it's heartening to see technology and tradition blend in a dance of dots and lines on paper. Perhaps this merger of worlds is what creativity in the 21st century looks like — pens guided by code, journal entries plotted by machines, all while keeping the conversation human at heart. The beauty of art, after all, is in its creation, be it by hand, pen plotter, or AI assistant.

Here's to the days when the blend of pixels and ink narrates our stories, and to the friends and fish and chips that fill them with colour. As for Kitty, your plotting precision might just be the unsung hero of my creative process.