Every morning comes early. So I use my DeLonghi espresso unit to make a doppio to start my day. It starts my body. Next, I start my mind by making a few entries in my journal. I’ve called my journals Sketchbooks of the Mind for as long I can remember. I borrowed it from the poet Lawrence Felinghetti, whom I once saw read live and in person.
It fits my approach to journaling. I see the practice as clearing the mind of thoughts and getting it ready for a new day, much like defrosting the windshield of your car. It is a powerful, simple process. In fact, simply noting the date and time each morning helps release yesterday. I think so anyway.
Below is a more recent sketch- thoughts I’ve written down and released over my morning doppio. See what you think.
- A workday may be seen as exchanging a portion of our life force, the essence that has always animated us, for the opportunity to purchase a lifeless object.
- Consider not what your coffee can do for you, but what you can accomplish with your coffee.
- The issue with pursuing money is that it invariably stays one step ahead.
- By the time you settle down to write, the moment has already passed.
- Money – you must earn it before you can burn, gather it before you can toss it, secure it before you can consume it.
- From your first breath to your last, there lies a vast expanse of gray area; nothing is purely black or white, and little is certain.
- One cannot see the coffee bean for the pound it’s part of.
- I don’t feel like I write. That’s too restrictive a description. Rather, I unearth thoughts, using an energized, fearless, tranquil, and focused energy within my mind; writing with it is a choice, not an inevitable path.
- Anything that is too easy, too convenient to not have an apparent downside cannot have the upside it claims to offer.
- For me at least, the midnight oil never burns as efficiently as the early morning coffee.
That’s all for now. Have a good day!
Coffee Novelist 
“The issue with pursuing money is that it invariably stays one step ahead.” LOL This is true.
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