
“Morning Light on Morning Pages” Cedar Park, 2025
Enjoying the morning sunlight as I do my morning pages.
daily slice-of-life photo blog of a Gen-X dad
Enjoying the morning sunlight as I do my morning pages.
I recently bought a monthly paper planner to explore the world of non-digital planning. Right now, I’m figuring out how it integrates with my digital planning and journaling. To start, I plan to use it for tracking upcoming vacations and noting small wins throughout the day. While researching, I found it interesting that many people use paper planners as a logbook for reflection, while digital planners focus on future events. That approach makes sense to me, so I’m curious to see how my system evolves!
Today we visited the Maido stationery shop at Mitsuwa Marketplace in Costa Mesa. They had such a great selection of fountain pens and inks, but I’m proud to say I showed some restraint and didn’t buy anything – I have more than enough pens already! Still, it was fun to browse.
The Pilot Prera is my new favorite fountain pen. It feels so good!
For my next notebook to fill with Morning Pages, I will use this small A6-size journal that I bought from Muji in New York City several years ago. It’s so nice to be able to use these for a nice purpose.