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My First Journal

Started by Kolby · 8 months ago

Do you remember your first notebook?  The first time you kept a journal or diary? Notebookism.com asked their readers to share the roots of their obsession of notebooks.  This has inspired me to find my first notebook/journal and rediscover what I was interests I had when I was much ... Continue reading »

9 comments

  • Lydia

    7 months ago

    thank you for sharing your book. The pages are a treasure
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  • dave

    7 months ago

    This is absolutely awesome. Thanks.
    ...dave
    daveterry.net
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  • Laura

    7 months ago

    Gosh! You were much more ambitious than I was at 19. At 19 I was just praying to finish college with repectable grades and a decent degree. You started a journal at 19? If I hadn't started mine at such a young age (9) I don't think I would have been able to start one at all. Thank you for sharing.
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  • Nancy Patterson

    7 months ago

    Thank you for sharing these wonderful pages!
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  • paperback writer

    8 months ago

    :) It's always fun to see the first journal/diary that we ever wrote in. Mine was an ultra girly diary with a lock. I believe by the time I reached 19 - a few months after you, I was on my...sixteenth? Anyway, I will have to stroll over to Notebookism.com.
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  • Jeff Atkinson

    8 months ago

    Great post. I will read your posts frequently. Added you to the RSS reader.
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  • MikeM

    7 months ago

    An inspiring entry. Thanks. A couple of questions: 1) Can you comment on how long you spend on an entry? Some of those drawings are so awesome, you must spend a lot of time finishing them? 2) How do you "use" these journals now? Presumably they are not just curiosities of a time and place in the past, so how reelvant are they to you today, so, how do you use them?
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  • Kolby

    7 months ago

    Hi MikeM,

    Thanks for the note. It's been over 15 years since I last wrote in the journal, so my memory is a bit fuzzy. But I do remember spending quite some time on each entry, especially if I added artwork. Most of the drawings were based on some newspaper or magazine article that piqued my interest. Usually the drawing was a copy of the diagrams or photos in the article, so I can't say I used much creativity. How do I use the journals now? Mainly as a way of peering back into my life and the interests I had. Until I was curious about it, the book has been stored away, but never too deep in case I'm ever in the mood to skim through it. I find more relevance in my travel journals (found at kahunna.net, if you're interested). Those journals are more about who I am at the moment of writing them while this journal tended to record what I hoped to become later in life. I'm happy to know that some hopes recorded in this first journal became realities in my life and recorded "for real" in my travel journals.
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  • Linda Lane

    6 months ago

    The Sonam Wangdu you found on Flickr is not Dezhung Rinpoche. Dezhung Rinpoche IV is a student at Sakya College. This Sonam Wangdu is a Chinese initiate at Tharlam Monastery in Boudha, Kathmandu, which is owned by Dezhung Rinpoche. Might be a good idea to remove the link or clarify it. Thank you,
    -Linda Lane
    415-272-1746
    wonderlane@gmail.com
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