Some years ago I began writing my thoughts in small notebooks. They were entered as I considered them. It was not daily, weekly or anything on a time schedule. When I returned to them months or years afterwards I was amazed. I came to understand my thoughts, how my mind worked, and how my thinking had changed. Working definitions: A diary is a record of events, indications, and particularly feelings made daily or at least regularly. A journal is more like an account of events, thoughts, or ideas made intermittently.There are lots of these: Travel journals, Diet journals, Workout diaries, Sleep diaries, Tagebuch, War diaries, Fictional diaries, and Unusual diaries. Some are just newsy, a sharing with friends. Naturally, many if not most politicians keep diaries and/or journals of their encounters with other politicians, in person or by phone. Have I created a diary? Not quite. My notes are more like a journal. People make them for a variety of reasons. Some are for
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