My Gregg shorthand is coming along. I’m realizing that I just love learning stuff, and half the fun of learnign a new thing is learning HOW to learn it!

For Gregg shorthand, it’s taking new forms and making index cards with them and just going through them all every day and adding a few news ones every day.

I found my anxiety about writing them “wrong” and thereby learning them “wrong” was unfounded. What happens is that my brain sort of gets closer and closer to what the platonic ideal of the form is, and I just edit the cards as my ability to distinguish improves.

For instance, today I made a card for “crane” but the “n” looked more like an “m”, something I might have shrugged off earlier, but now was glaringly obvious–so I just edited that card.

Anyway, Gregg can be quite beautiful and evocative by accident. Below is the form for “dream”.

Though, under review, that D is ridiculously long, longer than what should be the M, so it might be fair to read that as “dreen”, but that’s not a word.