Journals
I keep buying journals. I probably have 20 journals I've never written a word in. It seems too permanent to add ink to paper. I'm afraid of making a mistake.
I know you're thinking, "Trey, your blog is full of mistakes and typos."
Yes, but I can go back and edit them. I don't. But I could.
So I've started writing in some of the journals. Here's the problem. Who's gunna read 'em?
I mean do I show people what I wrote? Do I keep it a secret? What if there is something I want people to read in a journal right next to something I don't want them to read?
In the end I decided to keep various kinds of journals. Some I consider open. Go ahead and flip thru them. Others are secret... I generally don't write anything in them.
In the end this blog is my journal. I think thru my problems and vent and spaz out.
I'm afraid I will continue to buy journals and not write in them. But those blank pages and clever bindings just pull me in. They have a gravity well that I can't escape.
Labels: writing
posted by Trey Laminack @ 10:54 AM
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I ran across a Daily Journal I kept when I was in the Marines. I decided to keep one during our deployment to the Mediterranean that ultimately ended up in our being stationed in Beirut. I was amazed at the power of reading my words and instantly being right back where I was when I wrote them. Routine stuff, what we ate, the movie we saw on the ship's TV that day, etc. Probably boring to anyone else, but it is a treasure to me. I also kept a journal while I was in therapy. Notes to myself, homework, tidbits of knowledge, book recommendations, etc. A couple of years ago my briefcase was stolen which was where I had kept my journal. That is the only thing that I truly missed and still feel bitter about it being lost. The power of words is amazing.
I wsually keep them for a few years, then realize that I've never written in them. Then I fill the first three to ten pages with random thoughts, quotations, and shopping lists and let them sit for a few more years until I have a desperate need for scratch paper, at which point all of them disappear, so I feel like I can buy another two (or eight).
I'm the same way...I like the look of so many journals but then never do anything with them. I wish I could keep up with journaling so that I would have an excuse to buy pretty journals.
The only problem with e-journaling, if you will, is that you don't get to smell the leather bindings and paper. That's kind of a bummer...
So, I have been away from civilization for a month... what was the thing you wanted to share (mentioned in previous postings) but didn't???
Oh... and go look at all my pictures from training on myspace... I got to zip wire, rock climb, and rappel in training. It was awesome.
Much love,
Brianne (I can't remember my password to sign in... duh...)
Andrew's looking forward to seeing you at RoadMap next weekend...
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