Journal page plus photo layered together to begin. And then more layers, a filter or two.
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A long row of these primroses grew at one of the houses where my grandparents lived for awhile. I was a teenager about that time. I bought this at a garden sale a couple weeks ago thinking about that.
A few random thoughts, some perhaps more true than others?
- Journaling can be about remembering. I have kept a journal for a long time (since I was 10); in various forms. This blog is one of my journals. An interactive one, similar to ones I kept for classes in college that would be read and commented on.
- Any form of making, including the garden, becomes a place to hold memory. A way to journal.
- I've read that sometimes the childhood memories we hold on to are the moments of our lives that center around a lot of emotion. Other childhood memories that we have as adults are ones where a story is built by the child.
- A journal is a way to tell our story.
- It's not the keeping of that is so important, but rather the act of documenting, of creating. I rarely look back at past journals. Haven't even kept them all and am now in the process of sorting and altering some of them. I'm even thinking of tearing some up to make paper with.
- Journaling is mostly about the organizing of thoughts.