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Journaling - The Write Stuff For You?

Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Sep 19 12:55pm | Replies (536)
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@ray666 I couldn't agree with you more! Journaling has been a part of my life for many decades. Looking back on different times, sometimes there were big gaps [years!] where there was no journaling. Not for lack of life going on. It just seems like things were "too busy" to take some minutes most days to just write. But I can definitely see, when rereading from long ago, what was going on, and how cathartic it has been to simply write.

A comment on the weather, or what is right outside my writing area, and there you go! a kernel of words to start on. Let your mind go, try a haiku or short poem, write an observation about what is going on in your neighborhood or the world. Journaling can be anything you want it to be. You don't need to share what you write.
Ginger

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Ray Kemble | @ray666 | Sep 19 12:55pm

Hi, Ginger (@gingerw)

I have to confess to stretches of no-journaling, too. I'm not sure of the "why." Probably, like you say, those were stretches of times of extraordinary busyness. From where I'm sitting, if I look to my right, at the far end of the room, I see a lower shelf pressed with––with? I'm not sure how many––pressed with 30 or 40 old Composition notebooks––my old journals––each dated on its cover with a Start and End date. I know I was journaling before I started using Composition notebooks, but what happened to those earlier pages is anybody's guess.

Your mentioning as a way to start a comment on the weather or inking in a favorite haiku got me to look back through the pages of my latest journal (begun on June 24th) to see how I started some of my entries. Here's a quotation (author unknown) I scribbled at the top of my Sunday, July 6th, page: "When I wake up feeling flat and blah, I realize this is going to be one of those days when I have to pull out a stop and kick it up a gear or two."

Did I manage to pull out that stop? I guess I'd have to read my Monday, July 7th page. 🙂

Best wishes,
Ray (@ray666)

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