This is awesome. Last year I took a monasticism course during my senior year of college where I was required to journal every 30 minutes of my waking hours for 3 months. Those were maybe the best 3 months of my life!
“I think he saw it as navel-gazing and pseudo-writing—not intellectually rigorous enough maybe. Too subjective, too reflective, too me me me.”
Whew! As an obsessive journaler for 40-plus years I think that’s the point! I can be all me me me in my journal every morning and then move on for the rest of the day.
Thanks for a great post BA! Did you see Jillian’s early this week on how Gandhi said it is our moral duty to keep a diary?
I'm absolutely in! I do messy morning pages sometimes and immediately rip them up. I'm interested in deepening the practice of journaling though and love your perspective here. Makes me excited about it. Also: I will be laughing all day whenever I think of David's artwork.
Jun 30, 2023·edited Jun 30, 2023Liked by B.A. Lampman
Love this workshop idea — count me in! I'm a sporadic journal-keeper and would like to experiment with other ways to do it that might feel more, I don't know, vital.
And, holy shit, that Emerson quote!!! "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." I have never quite thought of it that way but I think that is exactly right. (Also love the phrase "good-humored inflexibility.")
So little left of my mind to melt 🤣. But am intrigued…I tend to be the one who jots stuff down and then promptly burns or shreds the mess of words my pen has scrawled. I could be convinced to give this a go under your guidance BA!
This is awesome. Last year I took a monasticism course during my senior year of college where I was required to journal every 30 minutes of my waking hours for 3 months. Those were maybe the best 3 months of my life!
I'm in. Journal me onto the list! :-)
“I think he saw it as navel-gazing and pseudo-writing—not intellectually rigorous enough maybe. Too subjective, too reflective, too me me me.”
Whew! As an obsessive journaler for 40-plus years I think that’s the point! I can be all me me me in my journal every morning and then move on for the rest of the day.
Thanks for a great post BA! Did you see Jillian’s early this week on how Gandhi said it is our moral duty to keep a diary?
I'm absolutely in! I do messy morning pages sometimes and immediately rip them up. I'm interested in deepening the practice of journaling though and love your perspective here. Makes me excited about it. Also: I will be laughing all day whenever I think of David's artwork.
Please put me on the list 🩵
Please don't melt my mind Mommy
Love this workshop idea — count me in! I'm a sporadic journal-keeper and would like to experiment with other ways to do it that might feel more, I don't know, vital.
And, holy shit, that Emerson quote!!! "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." I have never quite thought of it that way but I think that is exactly right. (Also love the phrase "good-humored inflexibility.")
So little left of my mind to melt 🤣. But am intrigued…I tend to be the one who jots stuff down and then promptly burns or shreds the mess of words my pen has scrawled. I could be convinced to give this a go under your guidance BA!