I finished These Is My Words last night and although I thought about chucking the book across the room like Hannah, I resisted and clung to her beautiful poignant final words and then cried myself to sleep. What some of us are asked to bear at times seems unfathomable, but the person we become on the other side of heartache is what makes living possible and what keeps us moving. I was content in knowing Sarah was able to move on with her new life still keeping him in her thoughts always.
As I was reading through the book it occurred to me what a novel idea it is to have a journal. I know silly right? My blog is basically my journal, but it's definitely missing some things that I find so beautiful about a book of ones words. 1. privacy (your not writing to an audience) 2. my own handwriting 3. you don't have to spell check or check your grammar. It's your unabridged thoughts written down on paper bound up just for you. I have missed writing with my hand and the randomness of my thoughts that I find I weed out to make my blog readable. So i think I will start a journal this year. It will definitely not take me away from blogging, but hopefully encourage me to keep thinking, which will in turn help me formulate and then share my thoughts as they come.
Do you have a journal on top of blogging?
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One of the results of this mass moe to digital that we all seem to be a part of is that more and more people crave the written word in their own, or somebody else's handwriting. I think that's largely why good mail is so big. Journals are an extension of this. My first project of the year is to hand bind myself a journal to write in. I want mine to be a daily record of my entire life--from keeping track of my eating, to recording things that my kids say, to my happiest or bitterest thoughts. I want it to be with me always. And I like the idea that I don't have to worry about whether my subject matter is interesting to anyone else, as I do with my blog (this coming form the person who has had a picture of ET up since November!). I love the idea of a journal, and I'll be right there with you this year, trying to do both.
I don't keep a journal separate from my blog, but know what you mean. I think I like writing for an audience and find that when I write just for myself I tend to get way too negative and dramatic. I hate looking back on the stuff I've previously written in journals and always want to destroy it. I'm sure it can be very liberating though.
I do have a journal besides my blog. I started it after starting my blog (and after hearing elder eryings talk) because there were so many private things I felt like I needed to let out. It's more like a gratitude/negative journal. (Some negative moments are too private & I can't share them with an audience.)
I feel like the blog & journal together make a whole.
I really enjoy your blog. You have a beautiful family & you are so very talented!! I love all your art & fabulous ideas. Thanks for sharing.
many times, my hand-written journal is the rough draft version of a blog post. the original, raw thoughts written down turn into a bit more polished version that is more appropriate to share. good luck, just don't let it take you too far away from us.
I write in my journal almost every day. Therapy.
i can read my journals going all the way back to 7th grade. it is heart-wrenching sometimes. and poignent, and awkward, and these are books i will cherish forever.
I don't keep a journal in addition to my blog. I can definitely see the value in it for all the reasons you mentioned, I just have never been able to get myself to write in a journal consistently. Great goal! (These Is My Words is one of my very favorite books. Oh that Captain Jack Elliott...)
I do have a journal, that is neglected. This year my goal is to write a letter to Dave and my girls once a week in a journal, then give it to them in December.
So glad you liked it! I keep thinking a journal would be nice to keep as well- but then I just know myself and that I would most likely neglect it. I do like to have things in handwriting though- so hopefully my scrapbooking will reflect that more this year.
I am kind of using my blog as a journal as well. Although I have thought about having one separately.
I haven't read "these is my words" But I am so glad you shared your thoughts on it.
"What some of us are asked to bear at times seems unfathomable, but the person we become on the other side of heartache is what makes living possible and what keeps us moving."
I am not going through anything unfathomable, but to me it is becoming harder and harder to bear. Your thoughts give me hope today. Thank you so much for sharing! I love you and I am so grateful for your friendship!
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