I’m still trying to get back into the habit of writing regular posts. It always breaks my heart to think of stories from my life being lost, and how priceless they are! As I’ve been restoring posts from the last few years that I was very close to losing forever, it’s impressed me at how meaningful my daily mundane reports are in retrospect. This is especially true with my journal from elementary school, wherein I consistently recorded such exciting details of what I had for dinner. And yet the few details work magic in reviving my memory and preserving my experiences, thoughts and progression on this earth. To me it is beyond debate that if we do not keep records, we do not progress.
These thoughts are nothing new. I’m just trying to persuade myself to take the burden of journal-keeping as seriously as I did in past months. Wilford Woodruff did it (who, after all my examining and considering of Mormon Fundamentalism, I am all the more convinced was very much a prophet of God until the end of his days), so I can too. Journal-keeping is so entirely spiritual. It is pure meditation.
And these are days when I need to meditate. Important things have been happening, such as the launch party for The Bent Sword two Saturdays ago, and my first signing at a bookstore (Borders) last Friday. Both events were successful due to a wonderful loyalty from wonderful friends. I really feel blessed because of them. The book signing would have been very painful had friends not unselfishly lingered around my table the whole time, dispelling the awkwardness and inviting others to come forward. I probably made twenty different signatures and dedications on Eric’s book. I tried some ventriloquism with the Lord Bore puppet. He got people’s attention for sure, but I think he freaked more people out than anything. The children seemed too afraid of him to approach me. Live and learn.
And now, in the spirit of yet another little attempted Renaissance in our marriage, Teresa insists that I need to go to bed right now so that we can meet our 11:00 bedtime and 6:00 rise time and seize the day.
