Practising my handwriting again recently – cursive, or “joined-up” as we called it at school – in response to an inspiring post by Neal Stephenson (see below):
"Just have notebooks lying around, or on your person. Write grocery lists, doodles, notes on meetings, to-do lists, or stray ideas. Journal. Copy out good lines from books. Anything that has your mental focus will have a more enduring presence in your brain if you write it down." - Neal Stephenson, on writing by hand
Didn’t publish this in July, but did write it then. Shortly after Stephenson published his essay.
I know that because I read it in a coffee-shop in Hackney, on the day I went to visit a friend from my school in a hospice – from both my schools, primary and secondary – so everything was rather charged with emotion.