When John Casey couldn’t work at Jack’s Barber Shop in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, which closed for several months in early 2020 because of the pandemic, he created The Sustainable Journaling Project, a four-session Zoom workshop.
The thrust of it? Be simple. Write every day. Mr. Casey is a shining example of the practice; he has written every day for the last seven years.
Mr. Casey now juggles cutting hair with teaching journaling workshops regularly for individuals and groups, including, most recently, a transmasculine group.
Mr. Casey transitioned in 2014, the year he began journaling and also enrolled in barber school. It was “an extremely busy year for me,” he said.