Nobody cares what goes on in my day-to-day life, and I don't really want to divulge personal information or feelings. What does that leave?
A journey. To find appropriate words and punctuation to fill the pages. Join me.
On a personal note, I am keeping said personal information and feelings in a book. No. No, not a diary. Its just an empty notebook I had left over from school. And some of my thoughts are making their way in there.
But you cant see that. Not until I die at least.
But I think my kids or grandkids or great grandkids etc. would maybe like to read some raw thoughts and feelings of someone in this day and age. I know I'd be interested in reading what my grandparents or great grandparents would have wrote if they had.
Dad told me the other day that my grandparents house (built in 1967) was built using some lumber from my grandparents' parents' house. Evidently, when my great grandparents built the house (AKA the "original house" from now on) they used 1"x12" lumber for supports in the attic. They would nail together two 1x12s to basically make a 2x12. Back to the story though, when my great grandparents built the original house, they wrote things on the inside of one (or some) of these "2x12s". Then, when my grandparents built the current house, they used those boards that had been written on. So in the attic of the current house, there is a "wood-blog" of sorts. Dad said they wrote random things such as who built the house and who was living in it....so and so is doing this in their life right now, so and so are the neighbors, so and so is an asshole....etc.
Neat stuff. Thats my story for the day.
sdj
I didn't know that (about the house)! I'm a little disappointed that we won't get to read about any of your mushy, gushy feelings...:)
ReplyDeleteGrandpa Joe did keep years and years of "diaries" you might ask Mom or Dad about them...Up until a couple of years ago, Mom said that he did write nearly every day.