Many long years of struggle are documented in these notebooks. Reading them is a big distraction from what's going on nowadays. They are mostly written in very small script with an extra-fine pen.
While they provided a place to vent, muse, and plan when I had no other outlet, I can't tell whether or not they are worth saving. Memory Lane is a very strange place.
--Bernice
I know what you mean, Bernice. I am in year 18 of keeping a daily journal (roughly 3 pages per day--about 150 single subject Staples notebooks). My handwriting from when I was younger has changed significantly, and I find it hard to even decipher some of what I wrote. I have been thinking about scanning them so I can have them accessible--of course, there is a part of me that thinks someone can find value in them when he or she writes a biography of my life--lol. Whatever I end up doing, I feel it will be traumatizing.
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enjoy your trips down Memory Lane
ReplyDeleteI would love to know how things changed from when you were writing to now. I think it would be a great perspective.
ReplyDeleteBernice, don't throw out your past--it has made you the person you are. And you could write a book...or two...or three!
ReplyDeleteI would rather you burn them all (or send them to Audrey if she insists) and re-begin your life unburdened by another self-created responsibility.
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