[thejournal-users] Re: FIFTY YEARS!
- From: "Julie Smith" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "doxigrafix@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: NEW _01_Journal List <thejournal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:08:29 -0600
Ooh! I like the way you think!
Aaron Gravvat <gravman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Buy a copy of the journal and inspire a young person in your life to take up
>journaling.
>
>On Dec 21, 2014 4:45 PM, "Julie" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>It occurred to me last night that next year- 2015, less than two weeks away-
>will mark 50 years of my writing in/to my journal... my alter ego, my
>nonjudgemental friend! Yup, you guessed it; I started writing before I was
>born!
>
>I started at the age of 11. I had just read Anne Frank's Diary and felt
>inspired. My first diary was a little tiny book with "1965" on the cover, with
>like three or four lines a day. Over the years, I destroyed a couple volumes
>in fits of adolescent angst- and not-so adolescent angst- but I've kept
>writing pretty consistently. I started calling it a "journal" instead of a
>"diary" because the word journal sounded cooler.
>
>From the first time I started using a computer in 1994 with Windows 3.1, my
>imagination was sparked. I wondered how I could go about keeping my journal on
>the computer. I don't remember when it was that I discovered David's wonderful
>program, but I got hooked pretty fast. What pleased me the most about it
>(still does) was how a writer can personalize it and make it their own.
>
>Fifty years! Whew! I'm trying to figure out how to celebrate such a milestone.
>I mean I think it's a big deal even if no one else does! And I feel like maybe
>I should do something cool to commemorate it, but I haven't the foggiest idea
>what that would be…
>
>So I am actively seeking suggestions!
>********************************************
>Be Well,
>Julie
>Founder and Whiner-in-Chief
>Survivors of Nearly Every Rotten Thing
>(S.N.E.R.T.s)
>
>If there are no dogs in Heaven,
>then when I die I want to go where they went.
>~ Will Rogers
>
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