I've wanted to keep an art journal for a few years. I've even attempted starting one several times but I never fully did it. So this is my year.

This is also the year I want to concentrate on the journey and not the destination. As this is the pensive time of year for me, I've also been reading the Tao Te Ching and I will be incorporating a lot of its quotes to my journal this year. This year, it's about slowing down, letting things go, stopping trying to control, taking what I get, and being present. It's all about the journey. Enjoying every moment of life and not trying to cram everything in.

I picked a Rusty Pickle minibook to do my journal in. Its size spoke to me. It's 6.75" by 11" or so. Big enough canvas to give me space but not so big as to be intimidating. I hope to do a page a week or so. It's a "gated" journal so it opens from the middle. Here's the back cover.



Of course, I also picked journey as my one little word. Here's to a fantastic journey in 2008.