Why Write in a Journal?
What motivates me to record life as it rolls along. As I look through my piles of notebooks, I can revisit myself at sixteen, twenty-five, forty and well, on and on. Sometimes thoughts from the previous year can be as interesting as ones from years ago. I re-visit myself at a times where I was starting my business, navigating motherhood, and all of my travels. Details, now forgotten, come back on the page, sketches and words and mementos bring the times lived so much closer. How interesting to see how many life concerns remain the same: Where am I going? Who will I be, and how can I find the time?
