[thejournal-users] Re: FIFTY YEARS!
- From: Debbie <coachdebbie@xxxxxxx>
- To: "thejournal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <thejournal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:35:10 -0800
Very cool, Mike!!!
I started journaling in 10th grade, when I was mistakenly placed in remedial
English after switching schools. Our teacher, for the short few weeks that I
got to enjoy her, taught us "automatic writing" and I've been journaling ever
since.
Julie introduced me to TJ a few months ago and I'm hooked!
Good to meet you all, fellow journalers 😀
Debbie
www.debbiehappycohen.com
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> On Dec 21, 2014, at 9:25 PM, Mike Ellis <mikeellis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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> 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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