Bill Worrell Journal

50 Sheets | Acid Free | 100 lb. | 160 gsm | 10″ x 7″ | Made in USA

“Don’t you wish you had your grandfather’s and your grandmother’s notebooks? How about your great grandparent’s notebooks? This is one of the important things about keeping notes, sketches and journals, but it is just one of the important things about keeping them.

Several years ago, Ron Whitmore, one of the owners of Artisan Art Supply in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, published a journal with one of my images on the cover. Then he published another, and another. And here he goes, publishing still another one.

My first entry is always my contact information, in case I lose it. After that, I create sketches, write song lyrics, notes, contact information of friends and crazy stuff, such as “I would not be weird if everyone else were not so blasted normal.”

Or, “What if everything just suddenly was not?  Then what wouldn’t there be?”  Or, “And God said, ‘Just let it happen.’  And by God it just happened.”

I keep a journal with me nearly all the time, even by my bed at night. Sometimes a thought is lost forever, like the time I had a dream about  how to end all war. It was so simple. The first thing I was going to do the following morning was write it down. That has been some 40 years ago, and I have never been able to recall the simple solution again. Talk about guilt! If the thought ever returns, I will have a journal right beside me.

Sketch, sketch, sketch.  Write, write, write.  Like musician Darden Smith said, “Paper’s cheap.”  Some single thoughts are worth an entire page of paper, so write it down.”

Bill Worrell