Reading, Diary, Excavation

- reading is to read what has been written - diary is a written record of my daily thoughts. - If you don’t write it, it disappears. - If you write it, it accumulates. - If you don’t accumulate, you go around the same place. - excavation is digging through the “strata” in which my past writings are accumulated and stacked, and discovering what might be of value to me now - Read this again.

• These three complete the cycle.

rashita2: “Reading, Diary,” If I were to fill in the blanks, what would it be?

nishio: write what you think before reading others and then compare! “Reading, journaling, rereading.” These three complete the loop.

nishio: I thought when I pictured it, “reading back” duplicates the “reading” element, the purpose of which is that you need a process to discover what you have written and make it the subject of “reading”.

nishio: the first word that came to me was “read back”, but when I sorted it out based on the picture, “excavate” seemed to fit better

nishio: version 2 “Reading, Diary, Excavation”

nishio: drawing a picture will advance your thinking

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