Handwriting

Perhaps you can empathise with me?...

When I was in school there was a huge pressure to have neat and perfect handwriting.

Now, into my adult years I find myself completely fascinated with people's handwriting.

How everyone's writing is totally different.

Uniqueness!

Graphology:

"Each person has their own unique style of handwriting, whether it is everyday handwriting or their personal signature. Even identical twins who share appearance and genetics do not have the same handwriting. The place where one grows up and the first language one learns melt together with different distributions of force and ways of shaping words to create a unique style of handwriting for each person." (Google)

Driving along one Saturday morning, I was listening to Graham Norton interview a Author. This Author was sharing that he still hand writes his manuscripts, because it shows his process.

This encouraged me!

I'm always scribbling notes down, and I keep a hand written journal.

Whenever I write a new poem, I now intentionally yield to the process. I am resolved to the mess and the raw journey that I take to arrive at the finished result. I leave the scribbles and often the mixed up order that my thoughts are extracted from my mind, through my frantic pen.

Perfection is not permitted!

I now choose to be authentic rather than worrying about not being perfect.

So lets celebrate diversity, imperfections, the journeys we take in our processes and here's to keeping it old school... Use a pen!