Sunday, July 10, 2005

Journal

Seymour, in his article on journaling on our group blog has inspired me to start a proper journal again. His idea for a DNPQ structure appeals to me, so let's see how it goes!

I bought a niceish notebook from Smiths.. it has a quote from Proust on the front: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes", which kind of sums up what I see as part of the value in journaling. Being able to reflect on life, not only as you write, but as part of a larger whole, a 'history' if you like.
Posted by cfg at 4:00 pm

1 comments:

Seymour said...

Glad you were inspired by the journaling ideas - Clare; every blessing on your renewed endeavour. Here's a quote from Henry Thoreau I thought would be good for the front page of a journal, in fact I am putting it on mine:

"Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable. No day will have been wholly misspent, if one sincere, thoughtful page has been written.

Let the daily tide leave some deposit on these pages, as it leaves sand and shells on the shore. So much increase of terra firma. This may be a calendar of the ebbs and flows of the soul; and on these sheets as a beach, the waves may cast up pearls and seaweed."

More Thoreau at http://blogthoreau.blogspot.com/ - check it, wicked!

10:05 pm, July 11, 2005

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