tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264220879054830337.post4981093937070408549..comments2024-03-28T10:33:53.636-05:00Comments on bohemian season: A diarist's dilemma - what do you do with your personal papers?vmichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545130837372429902noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264220879054830337.post-43843694961915681002011-05-19T16:14:35.083-05:002011-05-19T16:14:35.083-05:00So I edit.. I keep the stuff I want to remember, a...So I edit.. I keep the stuff I want to remember, and get rid of the stuff that would make me embarassed if someone else found it. Tho that may take me years, as I have just recently tossed out my preschool art, kindergarden homework and the like while going through my mom's house. What I did keep was all of my creative writing - no matter what age. It sucks, but it's fun to read and watch "my voice" as I grew.heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03666008339258359413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264220879054830337.post-53898167918392971872010-12-11T12:30:00.507-06:002010-12-11T12:30:00.507-06:00Amy B, as usual you prove to be Miss Insightful. ...Amy B, as usual you prove to be Miss Insightful. I appreciate the perspective. It's all so interesting... Who "are" we, anyway? Our self yesterday, today, tomorrow, or all at once? I tend to feel that I am myself in this present moment. I likely need a philosophy degree to answer this question with any credibility.<br /><br />vland, lovely to meet you! It's comforting to know even Emily Dickinson hid her papers ;-)vmichellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15545130837372429902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264220879054830337.post-7218134932930416122010-12-10T22:47:26.888-06:002010-12-10T22:47:26.888-06:00Hello - I just found you blog and had to comment w...Hello - I just found you blog and had to comment when I read this. Although I have never really kept a diary I do have quite a few sketchbooks that I also would occasionally write in and record some drama or heartbreak. I too, have been pondering what to do with these...some of the drawing are terrible, some ideas are pretty good and many have only half of the pages filled-up. Yet it seems weird to use them now - 10 or 20 years later. It also seems hard to throw them out. I am confused about what I would feel if someone read them, probably embarassment. Is that why Emily Dickenson hid hundreds of her poems? Thanks for your post - I think I will spend some time and really re-visit these books and the glimpses into my past, no matter how awkward. Hopefully, I can figure out what to do with them...hope you do too.vlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04149265612356027325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264220879054830337.post-2302259118838820352010-12-09T12:51:00.432-06:002010-12-09T12:51:00.432-06:00Great question. I've never kept a daily diary...Great question. I've never kept a daily diary, never been a regular writer, although I knew I had a few notebooks stashed here and there. Imagine my surprise to discover with this move just how many notebooks! <br /><br />I've finally collected them all into one place - a large plastic laundry tub in my bedroom. Some of them are painful to look at - as in painfully embarrassing - silly, self-indulgent, overly emotional or sentimental. But there are nuggets occasionally and for now, I'll just keep them all as they are. Maybe I'll do something with them someday.<br /><br />It's seems unfair for the me of now to edit the me of yesterday because the me of tomorrow might think differently. It's all so subjective. I say you gotta keep the good and the bad to know the whole person. Even the embarrassing parts remind me of events, thoughts, feelings I've long forgotten but maybe shouldn't have.Amy Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05670335108094318249noreply@blogger.com