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From: Marie Driskell <>
Subject: Re: [GenChat-L] Re:About writing famioly stories
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 22:34:07 -0600


wrote:

> I think writing our memories and impressions of our parents, grandparents,
> aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters is about the greatest thing w e can do for
> our children.
> Some of us claiom we fgot ionto this genealogy thing just so we could leave
> our kids a family tree. But they would be far more ionterested in "fleshing
> out" the opeplel that we know -- and they did not, at least at prevous times
> of their lives -- than in a bunch of cold names and ates on paper.

*^*^*^*^*^*Chatters,
How true this is. I keep a daily journal. Takes up about
the last 20 minutes of the day. I used to keep in in my own
handwriting but I have found that I am more faithful about
writing and write more on the computer. There are several
programs for writing a journal but all it takes is putting down
the date and then writing about your day. I find that I learn
about myself from going back to read what I wrote a year or
more ago. Hopefully I will continue to grow and learn until
it is time to go Home but sometimes it is difficult to see that
growth on a day to day basis. When you can go back a year
or more and read what you wrote it lets you see how you have
grown and changed.
I write about struggles I am having spiritually and personally.
I write about little things I do; about fun things which happen;
about sadness which has befallen our family or the family or
others. I have a notebook for each year and hope that when I
am gone they will serve as a source of enjoyment and information
to our son.
My husband keeps his own journal and it is quite interesting to
see how we each separately view the same events in life.
Marie

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