I'll participate if it involves marginalia! I recall (perhaps inaccurately) from previous discussions that flagamuffin and wasoxygen refused to write in books.

There is something about handwriting on a page, dna, scribbles that make one pause.

A few years back, I found a book of portraits of folksingers of the 1960s in a used book store in Northern Ontario. On the cover page, two previous owners had written inscriptions saying how and where they found the book and who they gave it to. I added my story and sent the book off to my brother, a folk singer, and one day someone else will add theirs. The book now has a family tree that will amaze someone in the future. And it is not electronic.

Do any of you remember the 1000 Journals projects? Did anyone ever encounter one of these 1000 journals. A fellow (using the name: someguy) in San Francisco mailed out 1000 journals to various places on the planet. The idea was to keep it only for 24 hours, to write in it, or collage, or create something in it and pass it on. The hope was the journals would eventually find their way back to someguy. Most of them were lost.

The one that passed through my hands back in the early 00s was lost, but I was found by a fimmaker tracking these lost journals and I am in her film.

I would definitely consider starting something like this circulating through hubski. If you're interested, look at some of the trailers from the 1000 Journals film. Here's one. I can see this going from hubbie to hubbie, each person writing something in it (or drawing, collaging, whatever) and passing it on.

First I have to get my hands on the actual perfect notebook for the journey.