Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND Hilarie Burton Morgan
Oct 3, 2023
Hilarie Burton Morgan, actress and New York Times bestselling author, shares her love of journaling and the idea of a personal grimoire. She talks about creating rituals, playful parenting and theatrical homemaking. Hilarie discusses synchronicity, inventing family holidays, and choosing authenticity while shifting from acting to a writing-focused life.
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Grimoire As Lifelong Knowledge Repository
- A grimoire is a personal book of practical knowledge historically kept by women to preserve recipes, plant lore, and religious practices.
- Hilarie Burton Morgan discovered she’d been keeping such books since childhood, finding a first-grade journal listing loves like witches and black as a favorite color.
Start A Grimoire With A Simple Notebook
- Start a grimoire with any simple notebook and record a few interesting daily tidbits, songs, poems, or sightings to build a nostalgic tool for hard times.
- Upgrade as you commit: use sketchbooks to doodle plants, then leather-bound editions or artisan books when ready.
Use Pen Not Pencil To Preserve Your Past
- Use pen rather than pencil in your grimoire to avoid erasing past feelings or rewriting history.
- Hilarie argues preserving tacky or embarrassing entries honors personal growth and prevents sanitizing your journey.
