[thejournal-users] Re: FIFTY YEARS!
- From: "Julie" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "doxigrafix@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: thejournal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 06:37:21 -0800
That's on my "Things to do when I retire" list: copy all my
old journal and diary books into TJ, complete with notes and annotations.
I've thought about scanning the pages in order to keep my drawings and
scribbles intact.
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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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On Sun, 12/21/14, Mike Ellis <mikeellis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Subject: [thejournal-users] Re: FIFTY YEARS!
To: thejournal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, December 21, 2014, 11:25 PM
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!
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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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