I have been writing privately for a long time.
I always had a journal or some aspect of a diary. I remember when I was a young teenager I wrote in marble composition notebooks, I still love them. Back then, I’d write my daily thoughts in the front of the book skipping the left side page, then flipping the book over and upside down, I would write poems also not writing on the left-side page. Eventually, everything blended.
Many years later, I still have a diary or a journal…. This writing space is a safe zone I could write anything I want to or need to inside the pages because there is no judgment. I say this to affirm it….and I remind myself of all the first pages when I start a new diary. I have a format that I follow I now start on the left side page, dating the page and asking the question:
What is on your mind…? Some days I answer “nothing; I don’t want to talk about it.” Other days I rant and spew out just how afraid or angry I am…. On occasion, I simply pray. On the right side page I write as the header;
Being the mom…being the wife… being me
I write how I feel, or I doodle on these pages, many times I wrote one word in a rage or one from my heart! Then I turn the page on the left side I write the following:
Song: a song I heard and love, or just a verse from a song
Quote: ( did I mention I collect quotes)
Random Thought: something random like; Wow the sky is so blue today…
My Prayer:
3 Things to be grateful for:
A truth:
What would the 5-year-old me want me to know:
What would the 17-year-old me want me to know:
The next page I write… What will heal me today: I have answered this with Paul Simon. That is followed by What will inspire me today: and answered with “laughter”.
I know it is a process; there are days that I write continually, yet there are days that I neglect or avoid to write. Sometimes I tape a printed quote, a poem, a song or a picture, into the book. Then there are times when I don’t have my journal near me and any paper will do…so I scribble my thoughts on what I can find, and when I can, I slip that note into my journal… All of this is my own…no judgment. It is my writing space.
When I write to blog, it is always on my computer in the upstairs bedroom…. I write in Word, once it is edited I copy and paste in my blogger draft, then I publish my post.
SquaareKat
2 Comments
Marissa
Marisa, you know I have a hallmark calendar I got years ago.and on the dates I write notes.Well from time to time I look through them just to see what I was doing on certain dates. I love to do that… I look back and think what was I thinking? I have 10 yrs worth and I love to see how I have grown…
Marisa B
I know isn't that great to do that; i feel the same about my diaries.. it's almost like looking at old pictures and asking what was I wearing…except when I look at my past writing , I sometimes say OK where did that come from! Thanks for visiting…I guess you have the late night shift…so happy for you…can you exhale now…:)