My wife picked up a leather bound journal for me at a thrift store today. I like testing a few pens in a new journal to break the tension of the blank page. After I finished the first page, my daughter climbed up on the couch with me and added her own finishing touches.

a collage with a brown leather notebook on the right, and on the left a notebook page is filled with scribbled text including pen tests and ideas for using a journal, with some red highlighted marks