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If you ever wanted to start,
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or maybe you started and stopped keeping a written journal,
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this video is for you.
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Hi everybody.
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Welcome back to my channel.
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Today we're going to do something a little different.
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I am going to talk today about keeping a written journal.
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I have had
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written journals since about 1985
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and before me my grandmother kept a journal almost every day of her life
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and I'll talk a little bit about that
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and my mother kept a journal for many many many years
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and I have all of them right here
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and I just want to talk about the gift of having a written journal
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and what it has done for me in my life.
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At the end, I have a story that I think some of you might relate to,
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and it'll make it worthwhile.
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So stick with me and take a little break from the endless news cycle
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and from the endless scroll and all of the crazy,
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and just have a minute to think about the benefits of having a written journal.
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Today I want to talk about a habit that has shaped so much of who I am.
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That is the habit of keeping a journal.
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It is my most consistent habit.
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It preceded my career, my family, my art.
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And I really do credit it with helping me through so many times in my life,
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whether it's big decisions or hard times,
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breakups, or anything that life has had to throw at me.
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I've been able to kind of look inward and to spend some time processing through these notebooks.
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And I think it has done incredible things for me.
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It brings me back to the page.
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It keeps me calm.
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It gives me clarity.
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And I believe it gives me resilience.
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So I know people get intimidated by the idea of keeping a journal.
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There's so many people out there talking about bullet journals or morning pages or do this, not that.
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buy a fancy Hobonichi, buy a Louise Carbon.
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You don't have to do all that.
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And actually, it's really nice after going
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so deep on art supplies to just sometimes just have a notebook and a pen and take it with you.
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It's just so great.
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My second point about this habit is that memory keeping brings with it a kind of a magic.
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And I do see that in my art journals as well.
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But writing also has this way of transforming the ordinary to the extraordinary.
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And I think that this is really profoundly meaningful.
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Like when I look back in some of my books,
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I'm always surprised to find how I was thinking about a particular moment in time.
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Sometimes I just disregard things that I think would be really huge.
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And sometimes small little details take on outsized importance.
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And it is helpful to put things in context.
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When you are keeping a log of your life,
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sometimes it really helps to put things in that perspective.
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There is satisfaction with finishing a book.
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It just is.
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It feels grounding.
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It feels like you've earned something and it is its own reward.
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It is its own reward.
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The most substantial counterweight there is to the relentless never-ending scroll of our digital lives.
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It gives us an excuse to unplug,
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to start a new chapter,
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to reframe, and to begin again.
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And actually, today I'm done with this particular book,
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and after this video, I will be breaking in my new journal,
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and I'm really excited about it.
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Okay, number four.
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This is actually my favorite,
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and I have a quote for it.
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I have a quote that I'm going to read to you all.
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It is from Susan Orlean.
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It is from her new book.
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And in fact, it's from like the first few pages.
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So I do recommend that you check it out.
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She's an incredible writer.
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This latest book that she wrote, it is her memoir.
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So after writing about other people for years and years and years,
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she has turned her area of focus on herself.
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And I will read now what she has said.
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The process of a journey,
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of striving for something that offers a sense of belonging and contentment of traversing the wild,
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mystery of the unknown, is what it means to be alive.
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Writing is a recapitulation of that experience.
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Writing documents the process of traveling from birth to death,
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from innocence to wisdom, from ignorance to knowledge,
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from where we start to where we end.
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Even writing
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that doesn't seem to be about a journey is at its
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heart a narrative of the writer's voyage into a new world
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and toward the grasp of it and then onward to the process of sharing it publicly.
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Now you don't have to share it publicly but I love the quote.
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I love the idea that all journals are at heart trip journals
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and so think on that because it does make you look at the world in a different way.
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You know when you're on a trip everything seems like you're seeing it for the first time.
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You're really open to the details in a new way.
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You find meaning in some very mundane things,
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whether it's like the street signs or the different kinds of,
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you know, coffee cups that you might find somewhere.
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Anyway, all of this is just to say when I write,
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life feels less routine and more like a trip.
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And I do really love a good trip.
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Number five.
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Writing forces us to live in the moment.
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It sharpens our attention, it deepens participation,
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and it is a way to stay present in our lives.
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And I see this again and again in some of my writing.
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When I go back and I look at my many journals,
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I'm always pleased to see some of those details that I've noted.
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I mean, of course it's nice to mark the big things,
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the graduations, the births, the weddings, like all that stuff.
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But it's also sort of nice just to notice,
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hey, on this day, I took a walk on this particular street
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and I sat down and I had a cup of coffee and I wrote down five things I was thinking about.
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Okay, number six, a companion through every season.
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One of the great things about keeping a written journal is that you are never alone.
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You have a companion through every season.
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You have a way to connect to others.
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I feel like my very first memories of journal writing were so tied to visiting my grandmother,
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waking up really early.
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She was always up at least at five or six in the morning.
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We were always up very early as a small child and my cousins,
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my sister and I, and we would all climb into bed with my grandmother
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and she would be sitting there writing in one of her journals.
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And she did that every day of her life.
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And she had a little stack behind her.
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There was like a bookshelf right behind the head of her bed.
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She never let us read anything.
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She was very private and she always said,
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you can read these when I die.
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I will leave them for you all.
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And we accepted it and now I have them.
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And it is like having a conversation with my grandfather when I open them up.
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It's pretty incredible.
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So I just think that there's this bond also that happens.
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And I've seen this again and again with my cousin who later when we were a little older,
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we started writing in our journals together and then sharing what we had written.
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My sister has kept a journal forever and actually is the one who first got me into art journaling,
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so adding images and vision and beautiful things to your journal.
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And I've found that I connect really well with people who are also keeping written journals.
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You know, there was a woman at the camp I went to when I was about 14 and we totally bonded.
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We didn't really get along with anyone else at the camp.
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We were the outcast, the weirdos,
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but we really made friends and it was really,
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I think it was partly because of those journals.
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Journals are also just a place to keep project ideas, creative inspiration.
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It's a container for dreams and disappointments and grief and hope.
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And of course, it is your constant companion through any kind of uncertainty
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or loneliness when really you just need some time to yourself.
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I remember actually one of my most fruitful writing times was shortly after
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September 11th back in 2001 when I was living in Europe and working in a very small town,
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didn't know very many people and I was super lonely.
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I was really sad.
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I was super, super homesick and I would,
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you know, come home after work and grab a little food and write my journal
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and it just helped me process the events of what were going on.
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So I think that companionship can't be underestimated.
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It is really, really powerful.
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Before closing, I had wanted to tell you a story about my mother's journals.
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So my mom was a wonderful person.
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She died last year after a brief illness.
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She had a really great life,
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but not without some challenges and hardships.
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My parents went through a very hard time when I was a young child.
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They did not, it was not a great period of time for their marriage.
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I think in retrospect, not to overshare,
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but I think my father was sometimes somewhat violent with my mom
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and eventually got help and got some medicine and was able to kind of contain much of his anger,
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although it certainly reared its head from time to time.
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Anyway, my mother had kept a journal those early years
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and she became very frightened at some point point
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that he might find the journals and that he would retaliate in some way.
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And so she burned them.
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She burned the journals from those early years.
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So that was probably like late 60s into the early 70s.
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And, you know, I mourn the loss of those journals because I think that was a really interesting time in her life.
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She was a young mother.
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She had moved from New York City to a small town in New Hampshire.
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She was figuring out who she was with this new identity as a wife and a mother and all that stuff.
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And my dad was hard,
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you know, and I love my dad very much,
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but he definitely went through some very, very hard years.
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So, you know, she stuck with him.
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They did, the marriage stayed together and,
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and they, they kept going.
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And, you know, mom later,
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so probably 10, 15 years later,
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started keeping a journal again.
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And I think part of it was my sister and I,
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because we were doing it.
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Part of it was she was starting to keep notes in a little planner she had on her desk
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that was in the middle of the kitchen.
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Everybody read it.
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And this is sort of the counterpoint to my grandmother's very private journal.
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My mom finally was like, you know what?
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I'm just going to write it.
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And if you guys read it,
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well, then you're going to learn what's on my mind.
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And so she ended up having these journals that were very open.
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They were filled with photographs of people she loved,
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movies she wanted to see,
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restaurants she wanted to try,
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recipes she'd given a whirl at a dinner party,
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very much full of love and life and light.
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She kept them in super not fancy notebooks from the Rite Aid or whatever,
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you know, CVS, name your drugstore notebook.
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There was no fancy moleskin for my mom.
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She just, and it was all lined and,
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you know, the whole thing.
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But she ended up, when she started actually journaling again,
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she took it really seriously and as a result has left this incredible legacy.
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And I think one of the neatest things about this for me is that in her final two years,
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when her cognition started to decline and she was suffering from a bunch of physical stuff as well,
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she lost the ability to really read.
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People could read to her,
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but she wasn't able to go back and read the journals.
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But she'd put in so many photographs and pictures and,
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you know, pamphlets from things we've done or tickets from a movie stub or an art show or whatever it is.
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And so we We went through the journals together and it was the source of great remembering and appreciation.
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So I think that's a really wonderful component of those kinds of kind of keeping a journal.
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So she was in her 50s when she started to be clear,
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when she finally started again after the hard times with my dad.
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And so I think my one question for you is,
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when will you start?
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Because starting at 50 can still yield wonderful results.
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Finally, let's talk a little bit about the types of journals.
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I made a list of all the different types of journals because I think no one is perfect.
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You can do a little bit of each one and you can certainly mix and mingle,
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but I love all of them.
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And I'm going to just say this like almost like a poem.
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It's like a poem.
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There is a diary, there is a sailing log,
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a trip journal, a book log or a reading log,
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a fitness tracker, a bullet journal,
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a Hobonichi daily, a habit tracker,
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Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks which are considered a polymath log with sketches,
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writing, and formulas, a field notebook,
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encrypted diaries, visual emotional records from the example would be Frida Kahlo on that one,
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junk journals, art journals, sketchbooks,
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of course we talk about those most of the time here,
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a commonplace book, that's the old type of book where families would compile knowledge over the centuries.
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I mean this is we're going way back now to like the 15-1600s
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and those books would be passed down from family to family including things like recipes,
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herbal remedies, poetry, you name it.
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There's one that I just learned the name of that I think I don't know how to pronounce.
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I think it's a Zibaldoni.
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I'm going to look up that and learn a little bit more.
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A family Bible.
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Lots of family Bibles used to have space for notes and that Bible would make its way down through the family.
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A Florilegium, a curated book of flowers,
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poetry, and art all in one place.
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I just love all of this
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and I think the more you go into this the more interested and curious and open the world seems.
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So take a look and if you have not yet started your diary,
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if you have not yet started your journal,
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my question is why not?
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Thanks for watching.
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Come back again.
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I'll see you soon.
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