{"id":4839,"date":"2018-12-21T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2018-12-16T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T18:29:58","slug":"filled-a-gifted-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4839","title":{"rendered":"Filled a Gifted Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have this thing with gifts. If I’m given something, I keep it. I use it. Or, in rare cases, I gift it again so that it can find a better home. This applies to all sorts of things, from feathered boas to stuffed animals… to journals from Wal-Mart. Like the one I talk about in Craft and Links<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a cheap journal bought from a place that makes me feel dirty just thinking about it. BUT! It was a gift from a good friend, at the time, so I wrote in it. And I wrote in it. And I wrote some more. The dates between first and last post span about four and a half years, and the blog post about finishing the last journal<\/a> was posted at about the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journal is quite thick, and its pages are as thin as newsprint. I never had the time (nor inclination) to count them, but there were a lot. I’m proud of filling this one up, and I’m grateful that the binding didn’t come apart until the very end. It took a hell of a beating, a lot of words, and a lot of coffee stains. Four and a half years of ticket stubs, convention badges, wedding place setting tags, diner grease, couples therapy homework, journaling, and of course, fiction. I’m moving to this one<\/a>, and am looking forward to filling it with more of the same.
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