On the day I decided to withdraw as covid advanced, I also started to keep a journal and I have kept it ever since. My journal is a Word document which I find really useful as I can search it easily to find what happened when.
So I decided to check what I did on this day in previous years. In 2020 I was just starting to emerge from isolation but I became worried because I came into contact with a suspected covid case so I scuttled back home and seclusion. Another year I went to a harvest meeting of the WI and reported that it was totally boring. The year that it was a talk on self defence was much more interesting! One year I went swimming and reported that I had swum fourteen lengths which I decided was a little too far as I was shattered for the rest of the day. Last year I was beginning to make plans for my hibernaculum.
And how I wish I had the courage and talent to make a lovely hand-written-and-illustrated journal like Kirsten of A Letter from Home! Maybe I could try that in my hibernaculum.
I'm enjoying your A-Z - you always find such interesting things to write about
ReplyDeleteThank you. You gave me the idea originally!
DeleteI had collected my 9 year old son from school, someone said to me that something had happened at the twin towers. I didn't even know what they were. When we got home he turned on the TV for children's telly, but of course 9/11 was all over the channels. We watched it together, transfixed, until we saw the second plane crash into the towers, then I suddenly realised it wasn't really suitable and switched it off.
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DeleteI like journalling too and sometimes do wee doodles to remind me about a nice part of a day-flowers, houses etc. I also did the scrapbooking kind of journalling using photographs but that’s somewhere in a cupboard now as it became tedious to think of things to do. Catriona
ReplyDeleteI quite fancy the scrapbooking sort of journalling for special times - maybe a holiday - but it's too much for everyday.
DeleteI enjoyed journaling and did so on and off for several years. But, once I started blogging, that sort of became my journal.
ReplyDelete9/11 - I was at work when one of my cousins called me; he worked for the Port Authority and was in the first tower to get hit. He was one of the lucky ones who managed to get away. Shortly after that, since I worked at the Civic Center in downtown Los Angeles and it was feared that we might be a potential target, we were all told to go home. Later I picked up my daughter from school, came home, and sat glued to the TV the rest of the day!
I remember the sense of unreality as it happened. Glad your cousin was one of the lucky ones but very sad that so many were not.
Delete9/11; I was working on a huge banner for church, so big I needed to use the church floor to lay it out. I hadn't known it was happening, until a stranger from the village came in. She said she never came to church, but didn't know where else to go, what else to do... so lucky for her that I had opened up that morning.
ReplyDeleteI publish the 10-minute scribbles just to show how rough the pictures can be and still somehow work - at least, they work for me!
Your ten minute scribbles really inspire me to want to have a go. You see things with clarity and record the essentials.
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