Prompt: Strange
Hello Wednesday,
Lately, despite my increased obsession with my iPhone 8s, I find I am placing notebooks and pencils everywhere: beside my chair, on my bedside table, by my desktop, and in my purse. Maybe this is my last-gasp effort to climb out of the mire of digital (digital was supposed to be clean and crisp and efficient) and into the fresh air of analog (old, slow, tedious analog?).
Last thing at night, first thing in the morning, I stare at the screen. What if something happened while I was away from staring at the screen? What if there was a political event, a meme, an emoticon message that I missed for a few hours later or even until tomorrow?
Irrational digital.
A paper novel, a fresh notebook and a pencil. The six o’clock news on television? Maybe. Read a little, look at the horizon; write down a thought or a note, think, put the pencil down. Comprehensible analog.
Ok, just try and pry my laptop or my iPhone from my hands— I don’t want to give them up. But I am making room, lots of room, for my lined notebooks and sharpened pencils, too.
Apropos of nothing particularly strange, though strange they may be, may I present a few of my favourite cartoons?
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Love and peace,
~~FP
Fluffy Pool 
I do the same. I’m no technophobe, but you can’t beat a physical notebook and a pen. Writing things down helps me remember things, but can always look it up if I forget; but find it very hard to keep track of things I’ve typed and doesn’t stick in my brain the same way writing does either.
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