Pens!

There seems to be an uncanny connection between rangefinder cameras and fountain pens. I guess it is a fascination with and appreciation of how things were done in more elegant years.

I started a ragtag collection of pens in 1999, mostly bought from ebay, when I was in fellowship training but I confess that it had been neglected in recent years. Earlier this year, this hobby was revived when I got a nice Waterman LeMan 100 fountain pen for my birthday. Since, I have been boggled by the amount of information now available on the internet. A far cry from 1999, when all I had to go by were a couple of reference books and some scattered magazine issues.

Well, since then, my collection has been transformed. I only have 3 or 4 of my older pens left, joined by several excellent writers, the operative word being "writers." I am accumulating, for lack of a better word, pens that I love to write with, rather than collecting them for any value or theme. I will be blogging about these in more detail in the next few weeks. I will also try to highlight some sites of interest that I have run into.