[thejournal-users] Re: FIFTY YEARS!

  • From: Debbie <coachdebbie@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "thejournal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <thejournal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:08:03 -0800

That's so cool, Julie!
Fun milestone ❤️
I like Aaron's idea of pay it forward.... 
Also when I celebrate something significant, I like to "attach" a song to it... 
Your song might be "Unwritten" 😀
Xoxo
Debbie

www.debbiehappycohen.com

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> On Dec 21, 2014, at 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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