Over the next month, I’m publishing a daily blog post right here on the website. I’m calling it “Notes of November”. This is the first post for the month, even though it’s more like a preface for the blog. Also I posted it at 1:00am so I’m technically a day behind already. WHATEVER!
Like the note above says, it’s a 30 day blog of ramblings and musings on the notes I’ve taken over the past year. I’m not much of a writer, so I’ll add some of my photos along the way to help spice things up. I’m doing this blog as a way to stay creative and consistent while winter slowly rolls in. That seasonal depression has no chance on me this year!!
I don’t expect many people to read them all, but I hope I’m able to inspire someone and make a few someones feel something with these Notes of November.
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For a little over a year, I’ve kept a tiny notebook with me to jot down everything in my whacky little mind: thoughts, ideas, problems, projects, lists, quotes and whatever else my brain is buzzing with. It’s basically “bullet journaling” but without the stress of doing it the way people have defined it, ya know? I guess you could just call it “Isaiah’s Brain Dump”.
“Isaiah’s Brain Dump”. (Shot in Webster Springs, West Virginia, in 2019)
Anyways. I’ve always enjoyed taking notes in small increments. My dad is a small note taker, too. I remember finding his scribbled notes on unopened mail on our kitchen table more than a few times growing up. My grandpa also loved taking notes. He would use the church bulletin to write down people’s names to remember and then proceed to fill the bulletin with notes from the preacher’s message that day. And then write on it more and more later on. I guess chaotic note-taking is in my DNA.
Grandpa’s notes from a 2010 church bulletin. Photographed last Christmas.
I think everyone should take more notes. And we should all share them more. Last week I wrote down some things I was struggling with creatively. I texted my buddy Ross about it and we talked through it over some Jucy Lucy’s at Matt’s Bar. It helped!
Ross at Matt’s Bar last week with a Jucy Lucy in his tummy.
Humans are just so full of brilliant ideas and thoughts, and I think too many of us let them slip away before getting them out into the world. Whether you get a journal to handwrite things (mine’s pocket-sized for ultra mobility), type it into your iPhone notes app, write in Greek on a chalkboard, or use any other form of note-taking, I hope you start jotting stuff down today! I promise you the world could benefit from your late night thoughts, potential projects, and business ideas. Whatever it is you have to say, however you want to do it — JOT IT DOWN.
