I usually journal in the morning. I use a hard-cover notebook with the pen clipped into the wire spiral that I keep on my bedside table. It’s not unusual for me to write a page or a paragraph at 5am while sipping my coffee and greeting the day. I always start my entries with the day, date and time in the upper right-hand corner of the page, take the first thought that bubbles up and begin writing. Inevitably, I wind up in a place very different from where I started.
Those unconscious leaps are gold for me. It’s what’s kept me going through the decades – to uncover fresh insights and learn something new about myself.
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