Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Day 4581: Power Journaling & Samples.

   

"Prayers for Ukraine":  photos, digital collage.




  

Want music?


    

Click:  Bill Withers, Just the Two of Us.


 

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Power Journaling

I have read of many studies on the benefits of keeping a journal.

Yeah, all of that. But I have journaled for decades, but not because I knew of the benefits, but because it was like a tea kettle letting off steam, it felt right.

 

In the beginning I just wrote, usually daily and dated. Then I took a journaling class with the amazing journal artist Janice Lowry, and my journaling took off, no limits no boundaries, more fun!



I feel that a quilt is similar to a journal, in that it contains dissimilar pieces bound together and they don't have to match, or be pretty, it's up to the maker.




Getting ready for a lecture/demo, I take some of my journals as examples of size and possibilities.





In the journal, directly above, I had my feelings hurt, thus the title "dismissed". I poured out my feelings, then tried to draw how I felt. So in October of 2015,
I gave my troubles to the journal and felt better.







 

  
 
A  3+  minute video, Tapanui Orangutan, here
 
 
 

  
 
Just because ...

Imperial Cormorant



 

Wednesday's Smiles ... 




   

















  
  



2 comments:

elenor said...

How lovely to see some pics of your many journals, Jacki. Thanks for sharing. I used to keep a diary for many years, but stopped years ago. Now kind of a diary is my I-phone where I take photos of everything that's important for me, but no thoughts are noticed. Sometimes i miss it.

jacki long said...

Yes, I agree. There is something special about the writing and to look at it later. At the talk I gave Tuesday, they were most impressed with the journals and how dssimilar they were.