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+\chapter{Journaling}
+
+Yes, yes yes...  I know that I have a item I was going to add to this
+and a whole thing about, ``Who are we?'' which I am avoiding writing.
+
+I get the desire to write the previous thing about sales first, because
+that was very much the topic of what was on our mind, when we were 
+sitting down to get something down here.  
+
+This about journaling wasn't really on our mind, it's just we
+don't feel inspired to write directly about who we are right now.
+
+Maybe we'll totally skip that.  Because you know, it's not something
+that we like to really consider directly because it always feels not
+right.  
+
+So, let's talk about journaling, rather than talking about ourselves
+directly.  
+
+I don't really want to fully dive into this, I have started a project 
+already that kind of has sat sadly for...  Months, maybe over a year, 
+maybe even over 2 years.
+
+I want to sort of cover a few different things with journaling:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+    \item{Why Journal?}
+    \begin{itemize}[nosep]
+        \item{Self Communication}
+        \item{Getting Things Done}
+        \item{Understanding Self}
+        \item{Understanding World}
+    \end{itemize}
+    \item{How we journal}
+    \begin{itemize}[nosep]
+        \item{Bullet Journal}
+        \item{Just Writing}
+        \item{Script Writing}
+    \end{itemize}
+\end{itemize}
+
+Dang, that was a longer list than I thought it would be, so let's get
+started
+
+\section{Why Journal?}
+
+This is something that honestly I'm sure there are at least as many 
+reasons as there are people journaling.  Which?  Um, that sort of seems
+a bit odd, as what I'm talking about here is probably some fairly generic
+reasons.
+
+These are reasons that I have for why I try to journal (and sometimes
+actually succeed at it).  They aren't really the only reason's, but we
+have to start somewhere, and we have to not overwhelm ourselves and our
+gentle (or not so gentle) readers.  
+
+\subsection{Self Communication}
+
+This well...  Self?  Maybe that's hitting us a bit weird...  Selves?  
+System?  Well maybe System is better then.\todo{Make this better with 
+more direct use of something along the lines of system.}
+
+This will probably (hopefully) get edited, but I don't want to go back
+and do that right now...  Remember, ``This will be terrible,'' from the
+introduction.  It's not our goal with the thing, it is more an invitation
+for ourselves to be accepting as we are capable of, of it not being 
+perfect.  Especially for it not to be perfect as we are working on it.
+
+So...  {\it System Communication}, then.  We use journaling for system
+communication, to have ourselves better able to understand what's going
+on with the system as a whole.\todo{Something about Simply Plural and 
+Discipline App}
+
+This ends up coming out in a few different ways, and more details about
+how this comes out in the different ways I've listed as ``How we 
+journal.''
+
+The thing we're noticing is that actually a lot of the why and the
+how end up interacting.  We were thinking that the ``Bullet Journal,''
+type format didn't have to do with much more than getting things done.
+
+And with looking at this, even the just getting things done of the 
+``Bullet Journal'' format (Can we call it BJ?  Let's at least for
+now.)\todo{Is BJ OK?} at least for us, involves system communication.
+
+Why do I say that?  Well, I could write something down as Jigme that
+I want to get done, and then Moddy shows up, but wasn't aware of that
+and they can look at that, and go ahead and get it done.  
+
+The other aspects felt a lot more like they were directly related to 
+the ``internal communication'' aspect, as that is pretty much the direct
+purpose of them.  
+
+So, what about getting things done?
+
+\subsection{Getting Things Done}
+
+This feels all of a sudden what I said about how the ``just writing,'' 
+and ``script writing,'' are basically about just internal communication
+that they have to be also connected with the getting things done aspect
+as well.
+
+The way they help with that may actually come up further down the way,
+but basically because they are about the communication, they can help
+with understanding as to what needs to be done.
+
+So, wait, we were talking about why?  I guess that means I really 
+need to talk about the executive function issues.\todo{yep this is a 
+chapter too.}
+
+It easily can take 3 days to do a single load of laundry with just
+the general inability to remember that is what is going on (it's not
+right in front of us, and sometimes the person fronting, is not the
+person who put the laundry in), and often when remembering, promptly
+getting interrupted by things outside of our system (people, phone,
+computer, dog, et cetera).
+
+Properly noting this stuff can be a huge help in cutting that time to
+more like reasonable levels.
+
+Does it happen?  Rarely, but hey a system can dream can't they?  
+
+What about the other things that I've got in that lovely list up
+there $\uparrow$ (and for me over there $\rightarrow$ (yes I just 
+spent several minutes getting the arrows to show up acceptably)),
+maybe let's look at them?
+
+\subsection{Understanding Self}
+
+OK, before I go too far with this, I feel that in our case, we're needing
+to split this into the self and the system, so let's do that.
+
+Well, maybe a bit about this before going to that.  It might seem obvious
+now that this makes sense, but when I wrote the list above, it really
+did not.  I didn't really see that this was different, but in writing, 
+found that it really is.  
+
+It's really very difficult to express what's going on in a way that 
+actually fully expresses this.  As I type a single word, there's like
+five different sentences going on that may or may not shift what's 
+happening with the greater thought pattern.
+
+Every so often enough of what's happening has a, ``click'' type moment
+where something comes up that needs to be noted.  Sometimes that ends 
+up working out, other times it doesn't.
+
+It can be easier to get some of these thoughts better to come out
+when working with a physical medium like a pen and paper (how I like
+to have my journals when I'm managing that), than it is when trying 
+to express stuff on the computer.  
+
+So, that's what happened to bring this to realising that this is actually
+important to pull into a more clear that the individual self, and the 
+system are connected, but not the same.
+
+\subsubsection{Understanding the Individual}
+
+This would be something which figuring out how certain patterns with
+certain members of the system are there.  
+
+This seems like it may have been a significant breakdown in counselling 
+when we've gone through it, as the counsellor (and ourselves) lacked the 
+understanding that talking to Jigme about something that happened when 
+Little One was fronting, can be next to useless.  
+
+Until Jigme understands Little One, it is like me trying to explain 
+why you went into do the thing you did.  And, if you really want to
+understand, no matter how much Jigme understands about what Little
+One did, they can't explain as well as Little One can themselves.  
+
+So, getting what Little One, or Jigme, or Samantha to understand what
+they are going through, and why they are doing the things they are
+doing, is very much a step in getting stuff so that the system 
+as a whole better understands what's going on.  
+
+Which is very much a place to transition to more specifically speaking
+about understanding the system.
+
+\subsubsection{Understanding the System}
+
+We're taking a break right now, will get back to you shortly, need to
+step away a bit.  
+
+Ah, we're back...  That helped.  Now, I got into some of what I'm talking
+about how figuring out how an individual member of the system helps with
+understanding the system as a whole, but that sort of is not the whole
+thing about understanding the system.
+
+Like it is a lot different to understand how every individual in a 
+classroom is behaving, than it is to understand how the classroom as 
+a whole is working.  It's a bit of a difference between considering 
+things from a psychological versus a group psychology or sociology 
+view.
+
+I'm not sure I can wholely say more about it than that without trying
+to do it, and ending up going through a long rambling discussion that
+quite possibly doesn't even get any further along than I already have.  
+
+Let's move to the next thing about understanding the world.
+
+\subsubsection{Understanding the World}
+
+This is more a matter (at least for me), about understanding how I'm 
+fitting in the world, but it can be more general in just understanding
+the dynamics of the world.  
+
+In the ``Are you going to sell this?'' chapter, I talked a bit about how 
+that works out, around the idea of collectivism versus individualism, 
+and about capitalism.  I didn't go into detail about how I got there,
+or really in any level of detail about the topics, but just enough
+to maybe start to think about those topics yourself (if you have
+not already been).
+
+So, it does end up being a somewhat useful thing in doing that, and
+any of these tools which I'm about to go into can be part of that.  
+
+\section{How We Journal}
+
+This will have to wait until some other time...
+
+I guess it's a fairly simple thing, but I was just done whenever I 
+paused there.  So, there's basically three different ways that I do my
+journaling.  Doing the Bullet Journal (BulJo?  I think that might be a 
+form used to refer to it, but ah not really sure?)\todo{ah Bujo, that's 
+actually official}, then just writing portions out, and writing 
+scripts.  
+
+This certainly won't go into the full details of any of these methods,
+just give a bit about how I do them, and how they kind of address the 
+why above.  
+
+\subsection{Bullet Journal\textsuperscript{\tiny\textregistered} 
+(Bujo\textsuperscript{\tiny\textregistered})}
+
+Bujo\textsuperscript{\tiny\textregistered}, was created by Ryder 
+Carroll, to help deal with his ADHD, (or maybe to deal with his egotism, 
+and not in a good way), technically it's not an open system, but also 
+technically there's a lot of information publicly available officially.  
+It's not clear really what the status of the trademark, and his 
+enforcing of it is, if he is enforcing it, and finds I dared to mention 
+his product and mention that I use it, well I guess this section will 
+change ...  It's why I decided to create my series on journaling (that 
+never got very far).
+
+So, he uses a system that works for him.  He's making money off that 
+system, and as he's trademarked it, no one can use the name in anything
+which would be considered to be a commercial product.  
+
+I've run into this attitude with other systems meant to help people. 
+Someone ends up making money from it, and also preventing the spread 
+of it in a ``legal'' way, as they somehow consider that it's so important
+that it be protected.
+
+I've had very strange issues with the use of 
+WordPress\textsuperscript{\tiny\textregistered}, because even though 
+what I was doing was saying, ``we are using this product,'' you can't 
+actually say that (depends on who it is to some extent), if what you are 
+doing is considered commercial.\todo{What is commercial?}
+
+Anyway, the system (which is trademarked not patented, it can't really 
+be), is a decent system, but it's not really open.  
+
+And, apparently he doesn't respect the IP of other people...  
+
+It really feels like a huge faff that he's making a decent amount of 
+money from, just get yourself a blank notebook, do what you can, and
+check out even his videos, or other instruction.  
+
+It's a great system for getting stuff done.  But really it comes down
+to, ``keep it simple,'' ``make it your own.''
+
+Yes, he's got some specifics.  But those specifics are basically, a
+20 minute video worth, or a single double sided A4/Letter paper to
+explain enough to take it into something that you can take further.
+
+So, let's move to something that I'm more comfortable talking as a
+way I'm doing stuff (because I don't have any term associated with 
+it that I am aware is considered proprietary).
+
+\subsection{Just Writing}
+
+This isn't really anything particular, though probably sort of is.
+
+There is a concept called ``free writing''\todo{Get Wikipedia Reference 
+here.} where a person writes continuously for 15 minutes, or some other 
+period of time, with the pen never stopping.  
+
+While I've tried to do that, I've never found that it was anything
+other than just a huge stressful ball of anxiety, because I kept,
+``screwing up'' how I was doing this.
+
+For me, this is to just write and feel free to stop and thing or
+whatever whenever you want.  
+
+You may sit down with something on your mind.  You may be writing
+about your day (where I kind of started with this), or you may write
+about some topic, or whatever.  
+
+The point for this for me, is it really doesn't have rules, except
+for what you set out when you do it that particular time.  And 
+really those rules are mostly, ``why am I sitting down to do this?''
+
+I have found that this isn't that common for me any more, but I
+feel it's actually a good place to start.  Pick up a small notebook,
+and just have it so you can fill it up with whatever you want.
+
+You can do this as a daily practice, do it multiple times a day,
+do it just whenever you think about it.  
+
+So, what about the other Script Writing thing?
+
+\subsection{Script Writing}
+
+This is a new thing that I've started to do.  I started first with
+doing this in a sketchbook, and sometimes do stuff similar to what
+I did still.  
+
+Essentially this is something where we create document of an internal
+dialogue, or maybe multiple parts talking, and trying to keep track of
+who is saying what in that dialogue.  
+
+I have started to use the Stage document class, in \LaTeX, to write
+some of these scripts.
+
+The purpose and format are a bit related.  For me, this is one
+of the system mapping tools that I use.  The specific tool that I
+use isn't as important as finding something that works.  The writing 
+in a sketchbook, or notebook, or whatever does work, and there is 
+nothing wrong with doing that, but I find that it also is a way that I
+end up with something that ends up being a bit of a scribble, that I
+don't really know what is said.
+
+Which...  Leads me to another how that I hadn't thought about...
+
+Just scribbling.
+
+\subsection{Just Scribbling}
+
+This probably isn't quite the thing here.  I guess this is a bit about
+why I really like to do some of this in a physical, open format journal.
+
+I haven't found a way on the computer that I can quickly switch between
+writing a text thing that ends up being decently formatted, to being able
+to throw a sketch, or formula in (well maybe a formula as I can do 
+something like):
+
+\begin{figure}[htb]
+$$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} {n\over{n^2}}$$
+\caption{I really have no idea what this ends up being.}
+\end{figure}\todo{Find out
+what this ends up summing to.}
+
+(yes I looked up how to do that), in \LaTeX.
+
+But I can easily switch when I'm using a pen/pencil on paper, to 
+whatever format I want, and it doesn't require any kind of mode
+switching or loading anything up, it just happens.  
+
+So I could just throw something down that is very much just a
+scribble, a ``ball of anxiety,'' and just sort of do that, or
+do a sketch of an idea I'm trying to explain, or whatever.  
+
+\section{Conclusion (sort of)}
+
+Well, that's been a heck of a lot, that I really did not expect
+so I want to say that this actually was a little weird to write 
+up as a lot of the breaks were because things were bringing stuff
+up, so yeah, take breaks, and enjoy your stuff.  
+
+I don't think this vaguely covers what I'd like to, but it
+certainly is a thing, that I can work with.
+
+I'd really love to write more about this whole topic, and probably
+will, but right now, this is done.  If you want to journal, just do
+it.  Don't spend your time trying to find the right way to do it,
+don't spend your time finding the right journal to do it in.  Just
+do it.
+
+If you find what you are doing, then change it.  Or you might decide
+just to stop, or set it aside and not worry about it.  
+
+Sure you'll get ideas from various sources.  They are great, but
+don't let them start to get in the way of just doing the thing.
+
+And yes, that's a lot easier said than done for a lot of people,
+including ourselves in the Datse Collective.  

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+\chapter{Are you going to sell this?}
+
+This was {\it not} where I thought I was going to go next.  I wasn't 
+really sure where I was going to go, but I had no idea that this was 
+going to be even here until I was looking at some zines on Etsy, and
+thinking back to something that was asked about the journals that
+I was making yesterday.
+
+The friend who came over, asked if I was going to sell them, and to
+be honest, I have thought about doing so, but really I don't feel that
+is something that I really is something that I really am really able to 
+do.
+
+There's several factors here.  The journals are basically my own way of
+trying to create something that will help make it easier for me to be 
+able to do what they are intended for (journaling).\todo{Journaling}
+
+At the time I was creating them, I was tipping in pages to a purchased 
+notebook, and that was every week.  It was a significant amount of 
+work every week just to prepare things for the week, and honestly, I 
+was feeling that was actually {\it easier} than what it was replacing.
+
+I know the current version isn't handling that idea as well as I had 
+hoped that it would.  I fully hoped to have it so that I would have 
+something, which could end up solving the whole situation with it.
+
+It doesn't.  What it does is gives me a basic replacement of the
+purchased notebook, in a smaller (fewer pages and I guess slightly
+smaller pages) format.  
+
+It's in a lot of ways still an improvement, as it is closer to what I 
+want, and I can just do some printing and assembling, with out having
+to search for something that works, and I can customise them as I work
+along with new versions.  
+
+What would they give to other people?  Well, as something I have put
+together, they would mostly be something that they would be buying
+because it's a way to show support for me.  
+
+What I would rather do for people who might get these, is to have
+them be supporting me to support me, and I could use this as 
+one of the things I might send them on a somewhat regular basis.
+
+Now, this is a little different.  There's something here that I feel is 
+of value in itself.  The arguments I've stated above don't fully make 
+the, ``I probably won't sell this,'' answer as easy to understand.
+
+There's a lot of other different things about why I can say that I
+probably won't sell this.  I'll start with some of the easier answers.
+
+I'm likely to have trouble assembling them into something that I will 
+have enough of to really be able to justify selling them.  I just don't
+have the physical ability to regularly be doing the 2 hours that it 
+takes to assemble maybe 5-10 in a good efficiency time, and I really
+also don't have the executive function to manage to sit down and do
+that when I do the work when I do have the physical ability to do it.
+
+Which also brings up yet another factor, which would be that I really 
+would need to have these (or the journals) be something like \$30.00 
+for a 40 page journal, if I was going to consider what I would need 
+to charge in order to ``live'' off of the sales.  
+
+Yes, it's a hand made item.  Yes, that might get some people to feel 
+that it's really worth it.  But a \$30.00 monthly journal is not 
+something I could justify spending myself even if it was perfect, and
+I really had access to that kind of money.
+
+This would probably be more like \$45.00 for a print version, if I were 
+to do so with the intention of paying for my time.  
+
+That is probably where the understanding ends up starting to diverging 
+from the easy to understand reasons, and more into some form of 
+cultural differences.
+
+I live in a deeply individualistic society in Canada, where there are
+some people try individually to create a more collectivist experience.
+
+This is not as strong as it is in U.S.A. or I think U.K..  But as someone
+who would really like to have a more collectivist world, it is difficult
+to have people who aren't already there understand that is really even a
+thing.
+
+I have spent time in Finland where there's not a speck of garbage 
+around, or that was what it was like when I was in Finland.  It's not
+that there's all these rigid rules as to what you do with the garbage.
+It is that when there's a question of, ``Will this harm others?'' or
+``Will this benefit me?'' the balance is more in the not harming others.
+
+The same thing when I spent time in Japan.  My Japanese and my Finnish
+are both rather low in being able to use it.  French is pretty low as 
+well, and I spent a year in Montr\'eal Qu\'ebec, where there is a bit
+of a perception that if you're not speaking French (less so than other
+parts of the province) you can be treated rather poorly.
+
+The thing I found in all these spaces, was that by my sense that I
+am asking that they understand that I don't understand that well, but
+being willing to work with them, I felt way more ``at home'' in all
+these spaces, than I have in the vast majority of English speaking
+spaces.
+
+In related topic (and this is probably for another time)\todo{Write this 
+up}, I was asked where I was from in the city I live in, and have lived 
+in now for I think more than 40 years in total (and was born here).
+
+No, it wasn't the, ``But where are you really from?'' type thing that
+BIPOC people often report, but it did give me some sense of what that
+experience is like.\todo{Where are you really from?}
+
+So...  Let's get back to where I was going...  With a better 
+understanding that I'm not really in that capitalistic/individualistic
+view that the, ``Will you be selling that?'' question seems to mostly
+be coming from, the idea of getting this in the hands of people who can
+afford to pay what it's worth, is a bit of an affront to my ideals.
+
+I absolutely want to make sure this will get in the hands of the people
+who I feel need to feel seen, and those are people who usually can't
+afford to pay what this would be worth, and one way that I have addressed
+that in the past (with digital goods), while still charging has been to
+have ``community copies,'' which I do wish to continue even with physical
+items.  
+
+I certainly want to be able to have this (and the journal), at a price
+which feels like it is the price which the version would be fair in terms
+of the time I put into it.  I'd also like to say that those prices will
+include prices which will allow community editions both in print and 
+digital.
+
+Many artists, will sell stuff (even custom stuff), at a price that will
+``allow them to continue to do the art,'' and this is very 
+understandable, that the main focus is to just be able to do what 
+they want to, but I feel it often ends up being a bit misguided.
+
+Why?  I feel it's two issues, but a big one is what I have seen about
+how to price your work.  I have attended workshops both for independent
+business people (not for people who are in an MLM, or some other form
+of contracting with a corporation so you can be an independent person
+under their roof), and artists about how to price your work.
+
+Some of this has gone into huge degrees of detail about it, which I have
+to say works very well for some people, other situations have gone with
+some idea of really very simple things, which also works for some people.
+
+All of this pricing ends up with some sense that things are often priced
+at a rate much higher than those that artists who just are trying to 
+make enough money to keep doing their art will price things at.
+
+The one thing particularly from the artist perspective, has been that by
+selling your work at a rate less than what it's worth, you end up 
+devaluing other similar work from other artists.  
+
+I feel this is true, though it feels that you can justify the idea of
+giving your work away more easily than you can justify underpricing your
+work.  Especially if you are doing both pricing at a fair price, and 
+being able to somehow get stuff free.
+
+So, I likely will be listing this as available for people who pay, 
+though probably pricing at a premium over what I feel it is worth, 
+and providing community copies to anyone who would like them (though 
+in somewhat limited numbers).
+