loving my new journals and so looking forward to filling them
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“language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories.
to reach out to people we’ll never meet.
it’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones:
the history of how you felt.”
-simon van booy
This is so true.
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it really is
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👍 I feel that we are losing the ability to write out our emotions and expect others to guess them.
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I hope not, but it is not as common as it was in history
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Indeed, now people don’t even write the whole word, mostly abbreviations!
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I’m a fan of full words
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Yes, me too.
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It looks big enough that you could even fit in some poetry…just saying…! This is legacy in the truest sense of the word. It is the little bit of ourselves that remains behind when we have gone.
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there is always room for some poetry – and yes
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Yes, fill them with breathings of the heart! 乂❤‿❤乂
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lovely way to put it –
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(♡ ὅ ◡ ὅ )ʃ♡
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After my mother died we found a diary written before she married.
Such a different person than I knew.
Sometimes we know so little about the ones we think we know the best.
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That’s so cool that you found it
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That looks like a lovely incentive to re-start writing journals once more. I’m just lacking the time and leisure to do so. Mind you, I’m officially an old age pensioner for some time already only I don’t seem to fit the bill….. I have a husband much younger than me and he’s still in the threadmill for a long time. Started to write in my agenda to whom I had written, stopped doing that (because: Who wd be even mildly interested?). Had started writing a great quote or thought in agenda daily. Stopped for the same reason (not even I myself looked into it after some time….)….. I also don’t seem to have great thoughts any longer or else I tell them straight to available ‘attendees’ (read: wall, cupboard, the world, but don’t read Hero Husband! Just saying)…..
But seriously, that journal looks just GREAT. I’m fighting a passing jealousy 🙂
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Just add to it when it feels right and stop it from becoming a task
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The best time would be during the night but then – although I can’t sleep – I’m too groggy to write….
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Cheers to your telling of your tales, Beth.
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It will seem crazy I’m sure )
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I have many journals that I kept when my children were growing up. Now I paint most of my journal entries 🙂
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What a lovely way of self expression
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Having a journal is also a reminder of how your writing styles change over time, if you write for long enough!
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So right!
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enjoy the new journals! I don’t think I would have the time to write in a journal, and keep up with all my blogging activity!
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It’s lots of ramblings
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does a journal post ever become a blog post?
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Yes
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two for the price of one…
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My journal opens most every day. Sometimes I write how I feel, sometimes I just write.
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Same
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What a great quote. Encouraging for anyone considering journaling/blogging/writing. Enjoy your lovely new journals. One can never have too much stationery.
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I agree. -I’ve always loved paper, journals and a stationery of all kinds
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Love that line: “the history of how you felt.”
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It’s good
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In my early married years, I kept journals. Usually used accounting ledger books. Any bound, blank pages. Nothing as elegant as yours. I still have the four or five books I filled. Maybe my son will read them someday.
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I have all kinds of them and have always been drawn to journals. They’re a mix of thoughts, pics, ideas and a lots of ramblings and questions
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Looks very impressive!
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Just simple and pretty
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Such truth in that quote. I am happy for you to create such a wonderful legacy.
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Thank you-
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You are welcome, Beth!
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Have fun. New pages.
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Yes!
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I’ve been keeping journals since … well, I’m going to write about them soon; once again you’ve inspired me, Beth; they’re often referred to as ‘commonplace books’ but ‘journals’ is a neater term, but are they the same thing?
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I’ve never heard that term, but it could very well be one and the same. I just write everything I think of in there, not necessarily a daily account of life –
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I’ll put up a post, Beth, possibly on my minor blog ; it appears there is a difference —
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Ah-
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I love this!! One day I want to publish in book form all of my writings for my daughter! Was actually thinking about that this week! ❤️
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Great!
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This is where the magic begins.
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all of the ramblings to be found in books like this
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Bet they will be a really interesting if private read. Great project !
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you never know how these will be taken
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Great quote.
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I think it sums it up perfectly
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Perfectly.
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Filling up those blank pages with new thoughts, or old thoughts revisited, and life not yet lived. How exciting! 🙂
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Cheers on the new journals. I’ve gone from fancy to basic and back again over the years. Now I have morning pages and night time journal plus a single line gratitude journal. That one makes me think hard about the day. My kids will have a field day with the boring mundane feelings about my days. Especially the days they irritated me. 😉 I have probably 20 years worth. What a bonfire that will be. Have fun with them.
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So true
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Yes
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Profound
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❤️
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It is one of the nicest feelings, isn’t it? So much potential for creativity. I have kept all mine even since high school, except for the ones that were tossed because they were incriminating. Teens today don’t even know cursive and mine doesn’t even read anymore so I can’t get him to understand how amazing a journal is.
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same!
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Wonderful! Happy writing, Beth.
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Thank you, Jennie
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🙂
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That’s true
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yes
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Wonderful, Beth! ❤ An awesome way to leave a legacy. I'm a journal junkie! xo
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someone will have a good laugh one day )
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Love it! 🙂 xo
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glad you are liking the journals, hope you managed to fill them all up!
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I’m doing my best –
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