El diario futuro

Llevo días pensando qué propósitos van a guiar el año que viene, sin que nada claro venga a mi mente.
Excepto este detalle: quiero recuperar un viejo hábito, abandonado hace años. Quiero un diario de papel. Un libro grueso, de tapas duras y páginas blancas.
¿Para qué? Para probar una nueva formar de expresión. Para las ideas más nuevas y las más incompletas.
¿Y qué tipo de diario? Hace unos minutos, Virgina me dió la respuesta:

What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose-knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful, that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life, and yet steady, tranquil compounds with the aloofness of a work of art. The main requisite, I think, on reading my old volumes, is not to play the part of a censor, but to write as the mood comes or of anything whatever; since I was curious to find how I went for things put in haphazard, and found the significance to lie where I never saw it at the time.

V. Woolf (Encontrado en Even Cleveland)