I have a little black book

I’ve been carrying it around in case of a writing emergency since about March last year. I wanted a portable outlet for creative thought, personal recording, and a sturdy archive for my spontaneous ideas and daydreams. So I bought it one day at Barnes & Noble.

It’s divided into several sections. Here is an example from each:

Business Ideas:

Local newspaper

Travel Dreams:

Northern Africa/Southern Europe tour: Morocco, Tunisia, Malta, Lybia, Egypt
Camels a must—travel part of the journey through the desert a la T.E. Lawrence
Sail to Malta

Brilliant Ideas:

Make a kite from scratch

Thoughts:

I will refrain from example—this is more personal, like a more mobile version of my journal

Quotations:

He explained to them that history was like an old house at night. With all the lamps lit. And ancestors whispering inside.
“To understand history," Chacko said, "we have to go inside and listen to what they’re saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.” –Arundhati Roy in The God of Small Things

Because sometimes I want to write, and I want to write now.