Seeing the fun in formative mess, a mnml digest
A curated journey through five articles, posts and podcasts that are speaking to me this week. Pulled widely from a week’s worth of reading. Shared in ten sentences or fewer. A fun means of reflecting on the blogs I regularly read in a way that spreads the link love.
My reading this week has me reflecting on the importance of failures. The centrality of making mistakes for teaching and writing better. And the fun to be found in formative mess.
The Value of Being Wrong: Lewis Thomas on Generative Mistakes (The Marginalian). Mistakes and experimenting are the heart of learning. A mistake, I must remind myself, brings me closer to what will work.
An Earthy Pen & Ink Pairing (From the Pen Cup). Case in point: pairing pens with inks. Trial and error for the inky, workable win.
Birmingham Mountain Laurel on Leuchtturm1917 (Inkcredible Colours). Not to mention the fountain pen triad of nib, ink and paper.
My foldable desk (Stationery Pizza). Thinking outside the proverbial box can lead to workable, sensible solutions. Like with floundering around for a usable writing surface while on the couch.
Damenhalter: Pelikan’s Gendered Pens and Pencils (The Pelikan’s Perch). In a topic dear to my heart, grounding mistakes of the past in their historical contexts can help us find ways of enjoying writing that call ever more people to the proverbial table. I dig historical analyses that ask questions about gender and power.
