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Feb 28, 2023Liked by Austin Kleon

So much cool stuff here! I love everyone’s ideas. I just use my five-year diary for daily happenings, nothing creative in that, but I do love seeing the growing evidence that I did, indeed, show up for each day. Which, obviously, we all do, but the journal also helps pluck out this or that memory from the ocean of my life, and I love that.

My other daily must-do is Morning Pages, and, inspired by Austin, I start each entry with the phase of the moon. I am constantly trying to divorce myself from my phone and so found this nifty moon phases thingie from NASA:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/make-a-moon-phases-calendar-and-calculator/

and it’s strangely satisfying to have the disk slowly work its way into a complete circle over the course of the year. A sort of Year Clock, I guess.

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