MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Dave, Roger
Here is the original Peter McKinnon video about handwriting with notebook benefits from 2 years ago that precedes the one I posted, that it refers back to. This started Peter’s handwriting with notebook passion.
Some valuable inspiration in this video too I think.
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Another tidbit for using the MLT Notebook.
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Hi Jurgen
That was a peaceful and beautiful video. Thanks. The white lights in Paris at night with the Eiffel Tower in the background looks fabulous. I’ve never been across the Atlantic, but Europe keeps calling. One day.
Back in 2006 I visited Seoul South Korea to see some relatives, and it was a few weeks before Christmas, and I was quite impressed by the Christmas lights and display all around the city. Here’s a short video with highlights last year of Christmas lights around the Seoul.
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Hi Tim
Christmas train sounds really amazing. Looks like you can stand in one place and watch a train parade with lights and music pass by. I’ve never seen one before. Thanks for sharing.
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Nice Daryl. I like the all blue light effect over the drive way, kind of bluesy psychedelic.
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Thanks Daryl, it seems writing down anything, fosters more creativity and inspiration from inside. I’ve read Stephen King does all his writing rough draft by hand first, Hemingway too. All the great 60’s song writers like the Beatles wrote their music with pen and paper.
I’ve personally experienced how when I feel overwhelmed and frustrated with obscurity with thoughts and stress pulling me in a dozen different directions, I start hand writing in my work or personal journal, and it immediately calms me and gives me insight and perspective I otherwise would not have found, and I work my way through things. It’s saved me so many times.
MLT with their music, merch, and everything they do are such a positive and brilliant force.
My friend who is about 10 years older than me said when he started school in the 50/60s, the desks had ink well holders still for dip pens, and he was introduced to fountain pens in school. Unfortunately by the time I started school, the BIC crystal was king, and at first we were only allowed to use pencils, and only in the later grades we could use BICs. In grade 4, I had a friend who was adamant it would only be fountain pens with him, even with inky fingers and all. That always stood out in my mind, going against the flow with something just because you know it’s better.
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Roger
It is interesting to see how they reconfigured the album artwork from the square space of the CD cover to the rectangular portrait configuration of the notebook. I hadn’t noticed but yeah, they did some creative reconfiguring. It’s actually nice to see two slightly different artwork versions in the CD cover and notebook. Yeah, there are some great fountain pen ink colours out there, like Diamine Oxblood, that is supposed to have the shade of dried blood. People like it, it is very popular. I have seen people who journal, that use different colour ink for each day, to contrast one day from another. Sometimes, alternating between just two pens with different ink colour works, like black ink one day, and red another. It is helpful in keeping each days thoughts and ideas separate and distinct and stand out. I find it even works using two different ink colour within the same day journal entry or a letter, to contrast out the body of the letter from closing thoughts for example. Or highlighting out the most important ideas from the rest. Doing different colors for each different MLT song I think would be great. Maybe even think of a particular color that might match the mood or feel of the song. I will have to put more thought into it.
In my later teens I abandoned cursive all together in favour of printing, because printing always seemed to look neater than my cursive. So through my adulthood, I pretty much lost cursive. About 10 years ago I picked up cursive again, just because flex writing with fountain pen works better in cursive than print. It took a couple years to get cursive back, and like you I stuttered in cursive, but after doing it again for a while, it has become more natural. There’s a lot written about the mental benefits of cursive with it’s smoother flowing nature of getting thoughts out over the more broken out form of printing.
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Hi Dave,
I’m glad you like the Peter McKinnon video. It is really inspiring. Notebooks are for the creatives.
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Hi Dave
Yeah I know what you mean about being a little afraid of wasting any of those precious MLT notebook pages. When I first got the notebooks, I really didn’t write anything in it for a couple weeks as I kept thinking what would be the best way to use these. I certainly don’t want to scribble just anything in these highly valuable pages. I think anything that will foster your imagination is what these notebooks are for.
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Hi Chris. I was just drooling over that melted cheese plate. 😁
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Hi Jurgen
The Christmas Markets in Europe look wonderful, make ours in NA pale in comparison I think. The one in Nuremburg you posted is listed as the best in Europe in Trip Advisor. The one in Vancouver is just an open square downtown blocked off with wooden fences and temporary Christmas decorated huts built up inside for the little shops and eateries. But the treats look delicious, and with the music and lights, doesn’t take long to feel the Christmas spirit.
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Hi Roger,
For my Orange and Why album lyrics, I was thinking of doing each song in a different ink color. I would have to ink up more of my fountain pens with different colors. 😁 Writing my own reflections and feelings down in the notebook when I listen to an MLT song sounds like a great idea I didn’t think of, thanks. The intricate Duo Session II album artwork on the notebook cover also fosters a creative mind set.
BTW, have you noticed the hidden reference to the Orange album on the notebook cover?
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Hey Jacki, thank you. I think the Writer Bundle will be perfect, and hope you get to do some creative poetry with it. Those MLT pens are great, and also use your purple Lamy fountain pen too for the colourful flourishes and illustrations, and let the thoughts flow like water. You so deserve all the wonderful MLT offerings. Have a groovy Friday, and will see you at the Livestream tonight. 😊
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Hi Tim
What a great song from Olivia Newton John, and yeah that deep bass vocal really is unique and adds an effective contrast to Olivia’s vocals. Like Jacki, I remember Olivia growing up from her Grease days, a lot of big hits from those times. She was a superstar back then, both as an actress and singer. My favourite of hers, and a song that really shows what a great singer she was, is “I Honestly Love You”. “Have You Never Been Mellow” is another gem that comes to mind. Such a moving and stirring song. It’s sad she’s gone, how time has passed so quickly. Thanks for posting this.
