[at-l] About Journaling

[thornel at attglobal.net (W F Thorneloe)]

You begin to get to the areas where the subtlety of writing have a value 
that keyboarding lacks.

BTW, my objection to the psycho babble of predicting "destructive patterns" 
deals with the fact that such predictions prejudice the work of writing. I 
suspect one can learn more from writing via observations of what appears - 
not by automatically pathologizing one's effort. Otherwise, you are simply 
psychologically using a dowsing stick, without knowledge of whether you are 
seeking water or poop. If you assume all of your patterns are poop, then 
you fail to be sustained by the life bearing water of your soul.

OrangeBug

At 06:58 PM 2/6/2005 -0500, Nina Rogers wrote:
>3. This sounds like a weird reason, but I find it interesting to look
>through old journals every now and then and see how my handwriting
>reflected a particular mood I was in, or a particular phase I was
>going through. If that's narcissistic, then I'm guilty as charged!
>
>Also, as a woman, I can definitely my destructive patterns appearing
>in my journals!!!! And some of my journal entries have shown symptoms
>(that I didn't know were symptoms at the time) that have been
>immensely helpful to doctors later down the line. So you never know
>how your journal can come back to help you.


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