Tag: journal
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On Keeping a Notebook (with Apologies to Joan Didion)
I’m 15 pages away from the end of my red comp book, which I have started filling up with three to six pages of fountain-pen-scribbled morning ramblings since June 15 of this year. I have impulsively titled the notebook UNPACKING in teal marker because there was space for a label. It was one of three…
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The Inevitable Backslide
To make myself feel better about myself, I’m going to say this was inevitable. That anybody on a journey towards taking better care of oneself (one’s self? BAH! autocorrect in your heads, mofos) will experience these strange uncalled for pauses in routine that feel daunting. See, my last update was Day 28. That was ONE…
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Arbitrary Endings (Also, Bring It, 2018!)
Why Journal Why I picked up the habit of journaling mostly as a survival mechanism. If you’ve ever been locked into bad thinking loops like me, writing sometimes seems to help make the brain pretend that now the problem exists outside of it. Then I could trudge along the mud, still on all fours, surely,…