#136: Creating a journal

Hey everyone, 

It’s been a really long time since I wrote to you all and as i’m here typing on the white space I feel guilty as if I’ve neglected you. 

However, I felt drawn to this newsletter just now and I’m following my fingers here rather than staying stuck up in my thoughts like I often am. 

As I look around me, I see lots of pain and I see lots of sadness. 

I am sad, sad about not knowing when I’ll see my family next. Sad about social events being cancelled. Sad because I miss the physical presence of my friends, family and colleagues. 

I feel angry and powerless, angry because this is just bloody annoying and powerless because all I can do is stay inside. 

Amongst all the sadness and pain, I also see so much hope and kindness too. In many ways I see us as a society returning to something, returning to an older, familiar way of being with one another that feels very natural. 

I feel deeply conscious of the economic impact of what is happening in the world right now. People will lose their jobs, companies will go out of business and commerce will completely slow down. 

Again, there’s not too much I can do about that either, so again I feel helpless. 

There is something I want to create though and have wanted to for some time. 

I want to create a Journal, a Sanctus Journal.

Journalling has been so fundamental to me and my mental health that I have always wanted to create one to encourage other people to express themselves and open up through journalling. 

I guess I thought that there might be some young journal making or book-binding business out there that is struggling and I might be one of the few customers willing to create something right now. 

I felt drawn to this newsletter so I could ask directly if anyone could help me find a journal-maker, notepad maker or publisher and I could maybe give them some business in a difficult time. 

Or I wondered if there is anyone on this newsletter who is out of work, who has free time, who wants to create something in their spare time and be part of what might come of it… 

I’m putting this out into the world and who knows what, if anything will come back.

With love, 
James x