Hi Cristina
Regarding handwriting 'journal' vs computer 'journal'
I prefer the later-one.. Because I can write in
computer much faster than on paper. Besides computer
allow me to change my thoughts (on what/how I write)
in each and every line/paragraph which I can not do so
easily in the paper based writing. Besides,
wordprocessor help me to spell correctly, else I am
horrible speller (of engilish language).
One good thing, as you have mentioned in a way, is
that paper based writing has one definite advantage
that is you are the best person to read(deciphering)
that writing... no other people on world can do it as
good as you can!! So makes you special person at least
in the reading (of your own handwriting) which is so
true for my handwriting which is usually very messy.
prakash
NEPAL
--- Christina <westernslopeacupunc
wrote:
> Hi, I am new here and another Christina. I have
> been
> lurking for a few days to get the lay of the list
> ;-)
> so to speak. I always do that with a new list. I
> have noticed several folks fill out questionnaires
> along with their newbie intro posts. I am not doing
> that here partly because I don't know where they got
> them... (the files section of the list maybe? I
> have
> not been there yet.)
>
> In this lifetime, I have been mostly a technical
> writer (business reports, manuals, instructions,
> etc.)
> but I have always had friends and family members
> tell
> me "you should write!" I am assuming they mean
> creatively in some form or fashion. Usually happens
> after I have gotten well and truly ticked off at
> someone/thing and written the Powers-That-
> demanding
> redress. Apparently, when I am angry, I am funny...
> the angrier the funnier, I guess.
>
> I have kept a journal at times in my business life,
> but it was for strictly for business. I have taken
> many, many, many, stabs at personal journal writing
> but have never been able to keep it up. I have even
> gone so far as to take classes in journal writing
> (Progoff system), although that's been quite a while
> ago. I have a strong intuition that it would really
> help me with my own personal and spiritual
> development, hence here I am. That plus my current
> favorite written form to read is the memoir/essay;
> Robert Fulghum and Thomas Lynch are two consummate
> practitioners of the art that come immediately to
> mind.
>
> As to my interests, they are legion. Hmmmm, let's
> see, (in the order they occur to me today)....
> •Oriental philosophy, especially Tibetan & Zen
> Buddhism and Chinese Taoism;
> •Oriental medicine (acupuncture, herbs, qi gong) and
> martial arts (the two sides of the same coin);
> •Classical homeopathy, Western herbalism,
> Aromatherapy;
> •Sustainable agriculture including biodynamics, with
> special emphasis on the cultivation of soil quality;
>
> •Traditional nutrition c.1930 give or take several
> decades, a la Weston Price et al, including or
> perhaps
> especially traditional food preservation techniques
> like fermented foods, cheese, etc.;
> •All culinary arts, especially Southern European,
> Mid-Eastern and Japanese;
>
> There's lots more, unfortunately, but I will stop
> there for now. It's a curse, this huge set of
> interests <sigh>, especially when coupled with a
> habit
> of voracious reading and the desire to acquire
> research materials (instead of using libraries).
>
> I have a few comments about some of the current
> threads:
>
> RE Bookmarks: Acupuncture needle, either in
> packaging
> or not! (Keeps the nosy outa my books ;-)
>
> RE Diary vs Journal: I realized I did not know the
> answer to this one and thought I should, so I went
> and
> looked it up. Seems the majority consensus of
> definitions available on the internet is that a
> Diary
> is a personal journal and Journal is usually a
> business document, but can be personal in which case
> it's often called a "diary". Clear as mud?
>
> RE Hiding places for journals: This is a sad and
> difficult subject for me these days. Unfortunately,
> today, it's nearly impossible to keep anything
> private. If one were to keep a journal on computer,
> there are some very cheap and even free encryption
> programs that might be of use. Simple passwords are
> no longer enough. Pretty much anyone who is
> persistent, motivated and/or adolescent can figure
> out
> how to blow away a password. Of course, the
> computer
> journal, as well as the locked-away-
> journal suffer from inconvenience but the
> carry-around
> journal suffers from vulnerability. While I simply
> refuse to allow myself to believe that we have
> entered
> an age where it's impossible to keep anything
> private--even our very own thoughts--but I deeply
> fear
> that's where we are: no place to go where we are not
> routinely photographed, many of those places our
> photographs are routinely entered into databases for
> computer analysis; everyone with a cellphone with
> nearly unlimited camera and recording capabilities
> even in the public restrooms, routine "key-word"
> monitoring of email and phone conversations,
> inability
> to get snailmail without registering with the post
> office (boy was that a recent shock to me!),
> marketing
> databases monitoring all our purchases, credit
> reporting agencies selling our personal information,
> travel restricted to those submitting to "real id",
> routine DNA collection, and on and frighteningly on
> with ever-increasing speed and depth of archival and
> retrieval capabilities. It's arguable that there
> are
> many others (business, government, hackers) that
> know
> more about you than you know yourself. And then of
> course there's the simply mundane problem of losing
> your purse with the journal inside.
>
> <sigh!>
>
> Well, now that I have completely depressed myself
> and
> probably everybody else as well as strengthening my
> already overabundant Luddite tendencies..
>
> A question: Over my many years of questing for self
> development, I have frequently read that it's better
> for the sake of personal development to handwrite
> your
> journal vs typing it on the computer. Since I have
> never been able to make myself be consistent and
> persistent in journal-keeping for any reasonable
> length of time, and what I have done I have done on
> computer, I have no personal experience to draw
> upon.
> What do you all think? Is there anything to that
> idea
> about the handwriting being more "powerful" than
> typing? Or is that a myth from earlier times when
> most journal-keepers wrote by hand? (I really,
> really
> want it not to be so, BTW, not the least because my
> cursive handwriting has degraded to the point where
> even *I* have trouble deciphering it sometimes ;-)
>
> Thanks. I look forward to learning from you all.
>
> Christina
>
>
>
>
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