TheBanyanTree: Wolf Moon 2010 - Something has been lost...

[A. Christopher Hammon]

Hmmmm .... I have had a similar ritual in that since the mid-1980s I 
have ritually done a file back up of my various computers, which then 
allows me to free up some space on the working drives. My calendar and 
contacts are all kept on my iPhone and synchronized with the office; and 
the calendar is synchronized through Google calendar so that everyone 
else in the office has access to everyone's schedule (we are a small, 
highly collaborative staff). But then as I am sitting here this morning 
reviewing drafts of student papers and making numerous corrections and 
comments on things to adjust or clarify, it occurs to me that I can't 
remember the last time I actually reviewed a student's writing that was 
actually on pieces of paper. It is all electronic.

I do, however, still keep my journal on paper in bound journals 
typically using one of my fountain pens, and I often enjoy the ritual of 
starting a new journal around the ending and beginning of years. So I 
have just started a new journal with a new fountain pen.

Cheers to the New Year,
Chris