[thejournal-users] Re: FIFTY YEARS!
- From: Mike Ellis <mikeellis@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thejournal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:25:15 -0900
On February 12, 1966, I entered my first journal entry in a paper “insurance
company” calendar book. When TJ became available I selected it & then over the
recent years I converted all my previous hand written entries into TJ. What a
wonderful resource this has been & is for me. I was 27 when I started & of
course now wish I had begun many years earlier.
I’ve managed to encourage my son to take up TJ & he has now become a convert.
Mike Ellis
> On Dec 21, 2014, at 8:08 PM, Julie Smith (Redacted sender
> "doxigrafix@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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
> <mailto: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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