Creature Comforts N°18
Your weekly newsletter coming in to slay the Sunday Scaries! Replenish and reset yourself for the week ahead. Why not lean on your journal for some support?
Hi, me again . . .
“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
If you journaled, hypothetically, of course, no judgment here . . . what would/do you “omit” from the record? There’s no shame in taking a good, honest look at this. Nobody’s watching! It’s just us.
Reflecting on what you omit from your diary and what you choose to include could be valuable. COULD BE! No guarantee. There’s no guarantee for anything these days, save for the occasional deeply PNWestern Patagonia fleece jacket in need of a darn.
Do you darn your clothes? Do you darn anything? Damn anything? Do you damn darn anything and everything? I can relate.
Stay strong friends. Maybe we can lean on one another.
XX,
CZ
This Week’s Journal Menu
Reflect: When you write in your journal, what do you leave out? Do you censor yourself? Why might this be?
Check-In: Are you breathing?
If yes, hi, thank you for being here,
If not, pray tell. Where are you? Plz send a car to pick me up.
Expand: Go to your local library. My libraries (LAPL, Pasadena, Altadena, San Diego) are my sanctuaries. You don’t have to go in person, either! Unless you want to.
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I no longer write in a diary, but the last time I did it became pretty mundane. I thought afterwards that my focus was in the wrong place. I think I should have explored the things that disturb me, and try to understand why. Ideas that compel me, things like that...
And, yes, I darn. There's a secondhand store where I live where I've found two beautiful sweaters that needed the tiniest bit of darning and, because of that, cost $1 each. There's a dollar room in that store where you can buy slightly flawed clothing. I wore one of the sweaters to lunch with a friend and she complimented me on it.
So worth it to darn when it's something so nice. You can't even see where I stitched, the holes were so small...
Fantastic quote by de Beauvoir, I was obsessed with her and Sartre when I lived in Paris.