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LETTER: New friend sends message on importance of keeping a journal To tell you of the joys and the benefits of keeping a journal . . . From Thelma Adams Asher My one tie to Adair County is a recently acquired friendship, through correspondence, with Marilyn Loy Turner. We have exchanged a few letters and while discussing writing, she sent me net access to some articles of hers published by you. A native born Texan, I am nonetheless very familiar with Kentucky as my late husband was from Kentucky. We made many automobile trips there and I remember a highway seemingly carved out of limestone. I remember early June wildflowers so beautiful they took my breath away. I remember Lexington and Mary Todd's house. I have been having some strong thoughts on journal keeping and how that makes for a certain fitness, and I thought you might be interested. To tell you of the joys and the benefits of keeping a journal, all you dear feriends and acquaintences of the Adair/Columbia area, this is the perfect place for enjoying such self expression and personal record keeping. With the four seasons so destinct and well defined you can preserve the joy of it all. Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall Write your journal. Keep it all. What is journaling? It is taking your pen (or in the case of ColumbiaMagazine.com, your keyboard) in hand and letting your feelings flow out onto paper. You have one of those 'made my day' moments, you can capture it in all its fresh delight and relive it many times. Or suppose a situation developes where motives are questionable; perhaps your own motives? You can evaluate your reaction and your assessment of the situation, and as time moves on and hindsight comes into focus you can weigh the judgment you made, Was it a good one? Doctors have pronounced journaling to be therapeutic, good for your immune system. How so? It is the next best thing to having the warm ear of your best friend. Say you desperately need to talk something out but your best friend is halfway around the world on an extended vacation--pour it all out on paper. Different aspects will come into focus and you will better know how you want to deal with it. Could journaling be actually lifesaving? Well, consider this: I had a close and dear friend whom I shall call Donna. Donna had been dealt a very raw hand in life. She was estranged from her daughter 'Megan' and Megan's grown up son and her daughter had turned against Donna. This seemed a cruel injustice to donna. Then things got worse, much worse. Megan was killed, yes she was murdered by her despondent, out-of-work live in man friend, who then turned the gun on himself. T say donna was distraught is too much of an understatement. She was devastated. What could I do for my suffering friend? Well, I could listen and I did. Donna talked. And talked. But there didn't seem to be any release for her. Her nerves were strung so tightly that her chin, hands and shoulders jerked to punctuate every thing she said. "I wish I could do something for you, Donna," I told her, then after thinking on it, added, "There might be something you could do for yourself. It is worth a try. Get yourself a big notebook and some free flowing pens and pour out your feelings on paper, Write and write. Not for anyone to read, maybe not even yourself. but to find a way through these negative emotions. It will give you release." I do not think Donna acted on my suggestion. She became more and more exhausted and I was told she would fall asleep sitting in a chair with a cup of tea in her hand. Then donna died, The doctor commented that she died of a broken heart. My friend 'Jane" was different. After many years of marriage and two grown children, Jane's husband left her for a younger woman. "I had this yellow legal pad," Jane said."And every night I wrote him a long letter, I told him how I felt about his unfaithfulness. Then I wrote him again, and again. I never mailed any of those letters but writing them got me through it" Lifesaving? Perhaps. Journaling helps. And it has other benefits. Say you are trying to pinpoint when this or that happened, and you can't remember. With your journal, you can look it up. And with a simple yearly index you can find it quickly. I use a three subject notebook for my journal and I make use of the three cardboard inserts to keep a personal health record. It is easy to access and very enlightening over the years. So. keep a journal and reap its many benefits! This writer can be reached at: thelmaasher@sbcglobal.net 4873 N Winery Circle #107, Fresno, California 93726 This story was posted on 2005-12-15 08:00:47
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