Journal Exchange?
When I was younger, I had found a Journal at my father’s auto body shop - Someone had left their book behind. It was covered in this amazing leather bound creation that held a small graph paper tablet inside. It belonged to a gentleman named Dan.
Dan was a musician (guitarist) and also an avid traveler. Dan was also obsessed with a woman named Lily. He wrote songs (with chords) about her.
I liked reading Dan’s thoughts and how he lived.
There was no address to send his Journal back to him.
I still have Dan’s Journal.
That was the first time I realized how much I enjoyed reading about others lives and reading about it as ‘first person’. Dan had no idea (assuming) that I, a 12 year old girl, would find his book and would be reading about his life.
I am 30 years old now.
‘Journal Exchange’ - What exactly did you mean by that?
Ideally how it works is we would both write in a journal / notebook.
Send an E-Mail to one another once a week - A head’s up to keep in touch and also for writing’s sake - how it’s going and to make sure the other person didn’t forget.
Once we finish filling all of its pages, we would mail it off to one another.
The journals would be ours to keep or to toss, or to randomly leave on a table at a Coffee Shop for someone to read. I’ve done the latter on various occasions with my own journals that hadn’t been traded.
I’ve done this several times and it’s a trip to read other’s lives as first person.
Truthfully, I still have the journals of those I’ve traded with.
So here it is… Want to exchange journals?
Only serious replies please - PM me or Comment
Disclaimer - I am only looking for one person to do this exchange with. I will respond to all who inquire and let them know if anything has been set in stone. Thank you.
Dan was a musician (guitarist) and also an avid traveler. Dan was also obsessed with a woman named Lily. He wrote songs (with chords) about her.
I liked reading Dan’s thoughts and how he lived.
There was no address to send his Journal back to him.
I still have Dan’s Journal.
That was the first time I realized how much I enjoyed reading about others lives and reading about it as ‘first person’. Dan had no idea (assuming) that I, a 12 year old girl, would find his book and would be reading about his life.
I am 30 years old now.
‘Journal Exchange’ - What exactly did you mean by that?
Ideally how it works is we would both write in a journal / notebook.
Send an E-Mail to one another once a week - A head’s up to keep in touch and also for writing’s sake - how it’s going and to make sure the other person didn’t forget.
Once we finish filling all of its pages, we would mail it off to one another.
The journals would be ours to keep or to toss, or to randomly leave on a table at a Coffee Shop for someone to read. I’ve done the latter on various occasions with my own journals that hadn’t been traded.
I’ve done this several times and it’s a trip to read other’s lives as first person.
Truthfully, I still have the journals of those I’ve traded with.
So here it is… Want to exchange journals?
Only serious replies please - PM me or Comment
Disclaimer - I am only looking for one person to do this exchange with. I will respond to all who inquire and let them know if anything has been set in stone. Thank you.