The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge this week is Inside…a secret place…a quiet place. Inside all of us lurk our real feelings, the things we don’t necessarily feel comfortable telling others.
The best gift my husband ever gave me was a 10-year journal. I treasure it; I write in it almost every day.
Mostly I write little things: daily weather, tasks I performed, and current events…longer entries I save for other journals.
But this journal has a lot of wonderful features: a section where you can record quick entries by month: your weight, for example, or the phases of the moon. There’s a yearly section in the back for medical procedures and automobile maintenance records; if you are not an Outlook person, there’s an address book (I haven’t used that part). There are also extra pages if you want to write more on a particular day than there is room for in the regular pages. How you use the journal is up to you.
My favorite feature, though, is that 10 years of the same date is on the same page. So as I write my entry for July 21, 2012, I see what was happening on the same date back in 2005. Β It makes writing entries every day an adventure. As I write my present entry, I reread my entries for the previous years. There are many times that we have wondered when something happened and I am able to go back in my journal and look it up.
Our inside life can sometimes be more eventful that our outside life; no one knows what happens there unless we want to share that knowledge. I hope someday someone else will appreciate the journal as much as I do now.
Wow, this is wonderful. I have never seen a 10 year journal. I wish I had one π
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If you can find one, I recommend it…and I know I’m not using all of its potential!
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What a great idea….I’ve not seen a 10 year one either. Very creative entry, π
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Thank you for your kind comment!
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Where can you find one please? I suspect my next 10 will be the best?
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I hope your next 10 will be the best! π
I’m not sure where he got it…online somewhere I think…
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Thanks for the mention!
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What a marvellous idea – never heard of a 10 year journal
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I love it! I’ve got 3 years left!
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OH what a lovely gift. I would love to have one of these and to be able to look back at the same date over ten years. Wonderful!
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It’s great…I love it!
Thanks for your comment!
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what a wonderful gift…I never knew they had 10 year ones
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I didn’t either…it was a great “find” by my husband…:-)
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Thanks, Ruth!
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Great post! I’ve always admired people who faithfully keep journals!
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Thanks! At this point in my life I find that if I miss a couple of days, it is hard to go back and fill them in because I don’t remember!
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This is great. My husband has recently been reading journals his mother kept and while she thought it was just everyday ‘stuff’ and boring, he is finding it all very interesting for the very fact that it portrays her everyday. Being able to readily see what you wrote the previous years must be quite interesting.
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My mother has been reading letters she and my father wrote back and forth when he was working out of state over 50 years ago (my father has passed away and he saved the letters). It is so interesting when she tells me stories from the letters — things she forgot all about.
Glad your husband is reading and enjoying his mother’s journals…I think it is wonderful.
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I think it’s important to record the stories – don’t have to be big and major – small anecdotes are just as interesting to children and subsequent generations. As such, I have been in a writing program for the past 7 years doing just that. It provides a framework for capturing the stories – if you’re interested you can check it out on my site – Write It Now
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I will Lynne! Thanks!
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