My best friend and I have been sharing a journal that we mail back and forth to each other since 2001. We’ve both misplaced it during our numerous moves around the country. We sometimes write long entries describing our dreams and fears, and other times we glue pictures and include quotations that we are finding particularly relevant. And a number of times we’ve listed our goals for the year. It’s so fascinating to read the old entries and to respond to each other’s meanderings. That’s probably why it usually takes us at least a year to send the journal back once we have it.
I love making lists and I am particularly fond of the New Year’s Resolutions list. I don’t really care about whether or not all my goals for the year are met. I am more interested in looking back at the year that is about to wrap up and imagine how the next could be even better. Of course, I’d love to ‘lose the baby weight’ — who wouldn’t? —- and cut down on sugar, put the phone and computer down more often, and maybe, just maybe figure out what I want to do when I grow up… but really I’d rather focus on the more whimsical goals: spending more time having long conversations with my husband; creating a fairy garden with my children; going on a family adventure to Iceland…
The list this year is going into our little shared book of ruminations. And I promise, it’s heading your way, Mo!
Stumbled upon this, and made me wish I had a friend and a journal like this too
A nice read for today, thanks!
My best friend and I had shared journals in high school. Every moment that we weren’t physically together or on the phone, we wrote. They were lost years ago, sadly. And now we have houses that are only a 10-minute walk away from each other, so no more need to write. I love that you do this.