Journals (not of the 'online' variety)

[kapitanprien]

I was wondering of anyone else here has an actual 'book' journal that they are working on.

I recently started mine a few days ago and have some photos of it to share.

For the typed stuff - I used a typewriter that I have that's from the 1940's.

Cover:

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Beginning:

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Childhood:

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Hamburg:

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Oldenburg:

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HAPAG:

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Handelsmarine - Misc.:

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U-Bootwaffe (still working on the rest of that section):

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I have quite a bit of work to do with the rest of it though. I wanted it to be sort of scrap-book-like.

[Laurasia]

I know that Miss Bothmann has multiple journals. I've never really been able to keep a journaling habit up though. (The longest that I've gone was maybe a month. ) I do, however, have organized folders for each of my past lives full of relevant material to each lifetime.

That's not journaling though, that's just keeping the stuff together so I can find it later on.

Sincerely,
Laurasia

[kapitanprien]

LoL

I was hesitant in starting this project for the same reasons I'm hesitant in putting stuff online (1- being a 'walk-in' and 2- being well known). I can just see someone picking it up and doing this number and thinking that I'm trying to get attention to myself.

[Iseke]

I know this is kind of irrelevant, but you have rather nice handwriting!

This is also a really neat project! I have digital journals on my computer (also on Aelestrid) for my past life memories and my astral travel experiences. But nothing like this, as I write too slow and too sloppy!

[kapitanprien]

*laughs* I thought it was a bit sloppy...but if you think it's nice...

It is a fun project because, for one thing, it's 'tangible'. I love doing blogs and all with all that neat background, logo artwork stuff...but you can't physically hold it. To me this is the personal equivalent to a blog - like a hand written letter is the personal equivalent to an email. There is something far more 'personalized' with this than a blog.

The journal isn't that big either, your 'standard - run of the mill' sized journal that was bought at a discount store. I just took things that I really had a 'connection' with and added them - like the Deutscher Flotten Verein pendant and the Imperial German coin along with of course the HAPAG flag cap badge and the German postcard (which reads 'Hamburg Segelschiff Hafen).

But my typewriter... It needs to be serviced for one thing and it definitely needs a new ribbon. The ribbon looks like swiss cheese because it's all old and falling apart. I was surprised I was able to get that stuff typed up!...and I have to type up more yet!

[Miss Bothmann]

I keep many journals (all handwritten because to me it feels more personal)...from the mundane to past life workings to spiritual. I must admit though that I tend to not write for chunks of time and then once I start up again you cannot get the pen out of my hand. LOL!

I actually still have journals from when I was in junior high if you can believe it. I should toss them, but the pack rat in me won't let loose.

I know what you mean prien. In my journals, I always add personal touches, like stickers or I will cut and paste a quote by a poet for inspiration. It starts to look more like a collage than a written journal!

[kapitanprien]

*laughs*

Yeah - I didn't want it so big as to be 'scrap book' sized, but I wanted something where I could add stuff that I really liked (typed quotes, etc.). I just managed to find two more quotes from this Cape Horn ship book - 'The Way of a Ship' that I used to have:

"What wonder that mariners tended to be reflective, when they had to deal with abstract time and celestial space just to find out where they were in the watery world." - Robert Foulke (quoted in the book)

"...the sailor, detached from the ignoble land, voyaging on the infinite sea, is the most worthy of men: a seeker of truth." - The Way of a Ship

[Miss Bothmann]

"What wonder that mariners tended to be reflective, when they had to deal with abstract time and celestial space just to find out where they were in the watery world." - Robert Foulke (quoted in the book)

That is a very nice quote.

[kapitanprien]

That was just as true in the U-Boats as well...

We had to use sextants, 'astro globes'...

[Miss Bothmann]

*laughs*

Whenever I see pictures like the ones you just posted, all I think of is a medieval astronomer or something.

[kapitanprien]

LoL...I hate GPS.

I can navigate better with a map than those things!

[Miss Bothmann]

I know what you mean! The funniest thing is that GPS errs at times...you will never get that with an old school map, eh?

[kapitanprien]

Nope.

"Recalculating."