I've been a fan of Letterfolk for a long time now. I use their letter boards for decoration in my house and on my Instagram feed. They also have a line of journals and notebooks, and I bought one back in May. I've never been a fan of the structured journals. I've been filling up empty journals ever since I was a pre-teen. But I noticed that once I got a smartphone and laptop, my writing time significantly decreased.

I used to spend my work breaks at Starbucks and Ettore's writing in my journal. A lot the entries are just summaries of what I'd been up to. Others are more emotionally charged with the bigger life questions and general teen and early adulthood angst and stress. But they were chronicling my life and I love being able to look back on them.

As I've made writing in my journal less of a priority, I'm afraid I'm missing the smaller details of my life. My goal is to pass along my journals to my future children. The Letterfolk journal has jumpstarted that old habit of writing. Each entry is only a page long. It asks the same three questions each day, with the fourth question rotating, and short writing prompts about every seven days. The questions are as follows:

Highlight of the day:

What is worth remembering?

What was felt?

What are you grateful for?/What are you looking forward to?

This abridged journal helps me close out each day. Sometimes the highlight is a conversation or event. Other times it's that my morning cup of coffee had the perfect coffee to cream ratio. Whether it's a big deal or something minor, I love that it gives me the time and space to reflect. I'm usually pretty worn out when I get into bed for the night, so the brevity of the entries allows me to jot something down without going into much detail. It's been about two months of writing in it nearly every night, and it's part of my bedtime ritual that I truly look forward to.

xxo