How LeatherMmoleskin Began

The Inspiration and Thought Behind It

Without going on a long tangent, there is something spiritual about giving form to the creative space harnessed in your brain. I have been pondering this for awhile now. I started noticing this back in March of 2025. I was confined to my bed for 3 weeks doing absolutely nothing.

Sounds like a dream right? Endlessly scrolling, not having responsibilities of the world on your shoulders; complete and utter stillness. Like all good things, it came to an end. It came to a screeching halt when I needed to let out some creativity.

At this point in my life I did not attach the title of 'creative' on my shoulders. I did not accept this title in my 'I am' statements. I did not recognize what this outside force was pushing me to do; let out the creative thinkings of my brain.

Something you need to know about me is that my creativity, like brainwaves- eave and flow. I never force my creative bi-products. I only create when it is like a strike of inspiration whatever that may look like.

In the past that has looked like me listening to a song on a special drive and I see the images flow through my brain- that leads me to create immediately. Watching a YouTube video on how to create multimedia art- that leads me to drop all responsibilities and create immediately.

This project was similar.

March 6th 12:07am. I was reading 'Mans Search For Meaning'. A book I have not picked up since the Summer of 2025. I only got 10 minutes of reading in that night. The first 5 were good and thoughtful. Finding meaning in life. Then inspiration hit. The next 5 minutes were filled of vision, images, meaning, and creative freedom with liberty. I saw exactly what I needed to create.

My head was so full of vision I dropped the book, for the next 3 hours until 3:30am that night I would have sat with my computer. The dim light shining in my room, Zach hard at work excreting the spiritual and worldly influence that is of bringing creative ideas to life. To MEDIA.

You cannot tell me this was not a spiritual striking of personal revelation.

That is how LeatherMoleskin began.

Here I will be able to have a space- where I may explore the continually evolving nature of what happens spiritually when you create.

What inspiration I hope the reader receives

There are a select few I can talk about this topic with. The fascinating urge to immediately create when inspiration strikes. To talk plainly about this topic my hopes are to lean people into this.

In this world we are filled with scrolling, video essays, and sooo much media we do not know what to do with it. I think there is a phenomenon, when you add to this pool of media. You get to be apart of something someone else pays attention to.

I am not exposing myself as an attention seeking individual. That would be very dishonest and inauthentic to me to believe that. In this world who reads a blog these days! Our attention spans are hanging on by a thread. Case in point... ME! I could not read for longer than 5 minutes (this particular night).

There is another feeling I want to expose. The feeling of self-help.

Working on yourself and doing things the general public isn't doing at the moment. Here are a few examples of people in my life I respect so much. Creators that create and post daily (what an accomplishment through daily motivation). Readers (I wish I had the attention span and drive to sit down and read. I am currently trying to train myself). Artists (photographers, painters, anyone who CREATES something physical or Digital). I view these examples as people who work on themself- who are authentic with their vision of who they really are or what they want to become. Then in turn the natural human bi-product; the feeling of self-help. What a special feeling.

I hope that this inspires the readers to create. I believe creation leads to authenticity which then turns to that special sacred self-help feeling you feel deep in your bright burning soul.

The Name

I watched two YouTube videos that heavily influenced this project. However, I watched those videos months ago. In January of 2026 when I was looking to improve my year.

As missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-Day Saints it was customary to keep a notebook in your pocket. This changed my life as a missionary, I LOVED the concept. Having a pocket full of pages to immediately write down something that comes to mind. Something special about writing pen to paper weather it be journaling or some random one liner you liked at comedy night and wanted to write it down and keep it for later.

I bought one of these Moleskin Pocketbooks in February of 2026, kept it in my pocket and I do just that. Anything that comes to mind, I put it pen to paper to keep for later. Have you seen the movie Tick Tick Boom? That explains the concept perfectly.

“Are you being led by fear or by love?”

Zach K.