Index, WA - Still Life
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When I was eight years old I saw my first diary at our small town drugstore. I was smitten. It had a brown fake leather cover and came complete with a small brass lock and key. My father bought it for me and in the coming years it would be filled with adolescent dreams, crushes and drama.
Why do I continue to keep a journal? It's a place to play with words and images and not feel the pressure of "creating art." It's a record of where I am this moment that often informs my future self. Here's how Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf explain it.
"I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends." Joan Didion
"A journal is an artificially permanent record of thought and inner life, which are invariably transient." Virginia Woolf
Index, WA - Still Life
Brave Girl
Index, Wa - Bella
