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Do you keep a journal or a diary or do you take a lot of notes?
At the moment, I am contemplating doing a post on LGBT diaries and journals for the LGBT Literature series that CUA’s very own Dr. Love “supervises” (for lack of a better word).
Of course, there is no shortage of well-known LGBT writers who have written and published their diaries and journals: Christopher Isherwood, Joe Orton, Virginia Woolf, Andre Gide is to name but a few that I know of off the top of my head.
While well-known straight writers have also written and published their diaries and journals to great acclaim (my own favorite would be the multi-volume collection of literary critic Edmund Wilson's journals , there is something about diaries and journals by LGBT writers that is simply special, especially because for the most part, even if they were well-known writers, there were limits as to what many of them could write and publish because of societal homophobia.
I’ve been a detailed “note-taker” for as long as I remember. I first started keeping journals and diaries, though, as part of of an 11th grade English assignment. These were journals that I had to turn in, first for assignment and then for extra credit in my 11th grade American Lit class, so Mr. D. saw everything that I wrote, much of what I thought, and would write very incisive notes in the margins; notes that we never spoke of…
Writing those journals was the first time I really began to open up about all aspects of myself; even the classmate that I had a crush on. So I guess that writing those journals also constituted my first “coming out of the closet” (even though I don’t know if it can truly be said that I was ever in the closet...but that’s another story...)
I’ve been in the habit of journaling and detailed note-taking ever since...with the exception of the past five or so years.
Life has been so fluid and my living spaces have changed so much that I have fallen out of the habit of explicitly writing in a diary and/or journaling (a lot of it is because of the fear of losing the notes/journals), even though I still I still take a lot of notes, date my jottings, and carry a notebook around with me nearly everywhere I go.
Still...I will be going back to writing daily journals/diaries (including a journal of what I read on a regular basis).
It is important that I keep a snapshot of my thoughts and my actions on a pretty regular basis; especially now that it i more than likely that I have lived over half of my life here on Earth. While I am far from religious, I do think that it is important that I record an...accounting of myself if only because no one else can really do the job for me.
Today’s question: Do you keep a journal or a diary or do you take a lot of notes?
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Ladybug53 drove over 2 hours to Nashville today to get voter registration supplies (courtesy of Gordon20024) and to talk voter registration with ZenTrainer. About a 5 hour drive round trip. This was according to ZenTrainer’s diary about it. Ladybug53 was in town to see Liberal Redneck live at a comedy club. She left Nashville with T-shirts, pens, registration forms and a clipboard, ready to go. This is what all readers need to do. Register people to vote, get off your duff!
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