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| Three of the more than 30 pens I have. |
I’ve never fancied myself as a collector of anything – except maybe random facts and anecdotes and, in my younger years, books.
And yet now I find myself with a collection of various items related to my interests – fountain pens, inks, ballpoint pens, watercolor sets, sketchbooks, notebooks, melodicas, and harmonicas.
I’ve been keeping a journal since the start of the pandemic. So some of the stuff I’ve been using are my fountain pens — two Parker 45 Flighters, three Jinhao X159s, three Pilot Metropolitans, and a Muji Aluminum.
I have a lot more pens — more than 30, in fact. But those are the ones I use a lot.
When I feel the urge to play a musical instrument, I have an Easttop Forerunner chromatic harmonica and a Yamaha Pianica P37D. Those are in addition to instruments I bought before the pandemic — a Yamaha PSR E243 and a Fender CD60CE acoustic guitar.
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| My Yamaha Pianica P37D |
And yes, I have ten books newly acquired. So far, I’ve read some of the “Essays of E.B. White” by E.B. White, and I’m rereading haphazardly some parts of “On Writing Well” by William Zinsser.
Most of these things I amassed through Shopee and Lazada since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The thing is, I ordered too many things too soon. So to declutter my working space, I gave away some pens, watercolor sets, paint brushes, and sketchbooks — some of them to my two daughters.
But I still have stuff left filling up my home office, as I’ve taken to calling what used to be my bedroom.
I’m sure I’ll get around to using them. But it would take some time — something I have a lot of anyway since the pandemic started.
