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How to Make a Journal of Your Life | Dan Price

A few years ago, I started rereading the daily journal I kept for twenty-five years so I could make note of important stuff and then burn each volume. I had a longer-than-anticipated gap in the process, but the conditions are right this week so I‘m back at it. Ten more volumes met their end tonight.

If you‘re all 😱, be assured I don‘t do this lightly. This journal is my mandala: something I had to make but don‘t have to keep forever.

Ruthiella I have a friend who did this. It makes sense to me. I actually don‘t want to read the journals of my younger self. They make me cringe a little. 2d

xicanti @Ruthiella there‘s definitely a lot of youthful ignorance in here. Also a lot of days where I wrote because I liked using my pen du jour, not because I had anything to SAY. 2d

Karisa 👏👏👏Your words, your choice! How did it feel? 2d

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Texreader This is amazing. Wow!! I kept diaries back in elementary school and they embarrass the heck out of me. I‘ve stuck them back in some closet. When I find them again they are getting “torched.” If I had been older and had nuggets of meaningful writings, I hope I‘d do the same as you. Such a beautiful thing. 2d

willaful @Ruthiella So much so! I kept my pregnancy journal but everything before it went into the shredder.
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Kenyazero I just read a book where a character did something similar! 2d

SamAnne Wow. I get this. I don‘t want others to read my journals when I pass. I‘m going through them this year. Burning sounds good! 2d

xicanti @Karisa it‘s been good. I‘ve now consigned fifty volumes to the flames. 1d

xicanti @Texreader it‘s a satisfying act. 1d

xicanti @willaful I‘ve ripped out and kept a few entries here and there, when they were personally significant. I think I‘ll probably keep most, if not all, the volumes I wrote when I lived in Auckland, but it‘ll be a while before I get that far. 1d

xicanti @Kenyazero I‘ve got a fictional twin! (Or a memoirist twin.) 1d

xicanti @SamAnne burning‘s so good! If I recycled them, I‘d worry someone would dig them out or something. 1d

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Karisa

Life with Picasso | Fran�oise Gilot, Carlton Lake

Enjoying fall audiobook walks with my favorite pooch and soaking in an autumn #BeautyBreak this week.

(Inspired by the #HaikuHive)

Slow walk, stopping lots
I take pictures, Cosmo sniffs,
Small moments collected

TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️ 3d

lil1inblue Lovely haiku and photos! 😍 3d

AnnCrystal Magical Season 👏🏼🐝😍💕🐕🐾🐝💝. 3d

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charl08 Aw. 🐶 3d

dabbe C🐾SMO!!! 🧡🍁♥️ P.S. Would you like to join our l'il group? No pressure; post when/if/whever you want.

L🧡VERLY haiku, too! 3d

Ruthiella ❤️🐶❤️🐶❤️ 2d

Karisa @dabbe @TheBookHippie @lil1inblue @AnnCrystal @charl08 @Ruthiella 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 2d

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