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I love walking. I haven’t been doing enough of it lately. This is a good reminder. I don’t know about writing poetry when I’m out there, but I’ll give it a whirl.

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If I could hop into a fresh, cold body of water out my front door like you I certainly would, Kim! It's harder to write poems down when you're cold-swimming, though...I imagine...But I look forward to hearing the results of your whirl! xo

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I just updated my iPhone today and an app appeared called “Journal” 😳 I haven’t played with it much yet, but it looks like it organizes photos and notes and even gives prompts to write about. After I read your post, it was wild to discover that lol 💕

Anyway I’m definitely going to wander in the yard tomorrow with a sketchbook!!

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OK BUT WAIT! I also got very excited about Journal- it seemed to do it all- but THEN found out *there’s no export function*🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨

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Noooooooooo they fail us!!!!

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Right!? I was like HOW IS IT LEGAL let alone advisable to host a journaling app wherein the contents die with the app? It goes against everything holy. But I was soooo excited about the way media can live together on the entries and if exportable it would be so awesome!

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must we write a letter to the manager?! 😅

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BUT Also it’s ok with me, because of the black hole that is my phone. I have to write everything in a planner, or in a sketchbook, or the idea gets sucked into apps I didn’t need to be on as soon as I pick up the phone. Struggle is real !!

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This is real!! Transferring nuggets of gold from my notes app to the page is a whole process and it’s so dicey because of the black hole nature… I mean…I also just love to hold pens and paper (and it certainly helps us think differently than holding a phone— my notebook pages unlined and glorious can move in all directions and overlap and and and…while the phone only works one dumb way…)

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Agree, agree, agree!

It feels so good to have space to doodle and embellish, ponder the written words. And you know what, prior to 2020 and the vision train, I hadn’t been writing AT ALL… I remember buying a notebook just for the trips and thinking how AMAZING it felt to write on paper with a pen. I can’t believe how removed I was and I’ll never take it for granted again!

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Oh goddess bless !!! Your writing and your sketches are so beautiful and have laced their way into my sketchbook over the years by virtue of our co creation—- Thanks vision train 🙏🏼🚂My sketchbooks started to rapidly evolve then, too— suddenly COLOR! (& The fortunate timing of a bestie gift bag of unused Tombows) And all those many days and hours spent together online in deep pandemic — I started to live-record everything in those pages like quotes from folks and all the wonderful writing exercises from Myth Cafe and visualizations and meditations and Art of Dying starts populating the pages and evolving over time and Image Word Mystery comes into being there and YES! ((Love you Brittney! So nice to catch up in the comments here— I look forward to blowing you a smooch online soon xoxo))

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However yaaaaayyyyyyy to a wander in the yard with your journal!

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I've been so cooped of late. Screen staring while guesting in my own home. Gotta walk this weekend. A hike, with intent to write. I never do that while walking, so thanks for the thought! Will do on the hill dew.

It would be fun to read long-lost notes and do an exchange—finishing the thoughts of others.

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Well, there's Evernote. I must 'fess that I haven't used it in ages. But it does all that stuffs. I tend to use Notes as well. And Text edit. And scraps of envelopes. And sketchbooks. Endless lists of thoughts that would otherwise linger and loop...or get lost.

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'Awakened walking' popped into my head as a term for this practice. 'Perpetual poetry'? 'Poetry en passage?' 'Flow poetry?' 'Poetry in passing?' Just about to do that, actually, in the nearby Santa Monica mountains. Thanks for the reminder!

Ah yes. Manifest (assimilation) destiny (The MAD policy). Love your last two lines.

For apps, update on Evernote—I've reached the limit on the free plan, and the paid is $$$.

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“Poetry en Passage!” I love this. I hope you’ve been basking in the poetic flow this summer, Miles! Its finally a little bit cooler here (like not 100 with 100% humidity anymore) so I’m looking forward to getting back out for more awakened walking in coming weeks.

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I wish! Been workin' on the biz more so, doin' the art dailies, an epic hike on Sunday, and wading back into live figure drawing. Missing the poetry and writing, though. Yes to more awakened walking!

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