Alone on my zazen matI forget the daysAs they passThe wisteria has grownThick over the eavesOf my hut. - Muso (1275-1351)from 1992 (bayram):from 1995 (new year):these days:
Your journals are a lot more artistic than mine. :pYesterday I read through a journal I had to write for school in the sixth grade. One of my teacher's comments: "A-. Please be neater." Which I think is an absolutely ridiculous thing to write in someone's journal!! ^^;At what age did you switch from writing your journals in Turkish to writing them in English? (I am a monolingual who likes to ask annoying questions such as this!)I love the third one from the bottom, with the pretty pink feet and the star and the lovely swirly lines. :) And the one above it, how cool!Hehe, is that Lord Asriel you're writing about in the one second from the bottom? ;D
hehe, thank you! My latest one is such a boring read that i have to do something to brighten it up a bit. When we were in Gocek, I'd left it on the coffee table and my Dad actually got up and turned it over because it was making him hungry! And my grandma asked whether it was a recipe book! XD"A-. Please be neater."Definitely inhibiting creativity! :[I think I probably first wrote in English when I received that second journal for Christmas. It says 'Secret Diary' on the front so I think I figured it should be in English. Even though my English would have been nowhere near as good as my Turkish (you might be able to make out "earlyer" on the page in the second photo, and other pages are covered in corrections by my Dad). But I certainly switched many times after that.The lady is made from wallpaper. I always love picking up free samples when I go to hardware shops. Sometimes when I go with someone, I make a show of saying "how d'you think this would look in the living room?" :PTeehee. Yes it does say Lord Asriel. Probably the only entry that mentions him though! Honest! :]
it is so super! (are those real flowers pasted on?) i'm kind of allergic to pollen, it makes life difficult to have artistic journals, but i keep petals in a forever friends round biscuit tin and i like to smell them on occasion. :D my journals are much less beautiful and full of scribbles that make no sense, therefore - jealous me. :
i'm in love with these. i always want to post such things but am never creative enough.bloodoranges - no duets after all, but it feels right. it always has. last move, i promise!
gosh, how delightful! how old were you? in '92 probably no more than...7, 8, 9? i believe i was five or six at the time. i wish i'd kept journals. i wrote a few entries when i was ten...but my handwriting was terrible and it was 'too ugly for my journal' - a present from my aunt with a picture of ballet slippers on the front. so eventually i ripped the pages out and stopped writing, until about thirteen when i picked it up again. i remember writing about cloth purses hidden in my clothes and a boy one grade higher than me that i fantasized about... ahh! sorry, i am digressing...! lovely journals, you have.
thank you so much Sammy! :) yes, they are real flowers. i have quite a passion for recording flora, only i never know their names!my creative writing journal is a forest of scribbles too, so do not be jealous! messiness is entirely necessary for creativity, i say.
pish! of course you are creative enough. as i said, these are just trivialities for passing the time.we shall have our duet some other way perhaps? i quite associate bloodoranges with you, so i am glad! :)
i was almost 8 when i wrote that first entry, the summer after first grade, i think. my teacher had suggested we try to keep a diary and my mother and i went to town and she bought me the notebook as a bayram present. at the back i have notes written by my primary school friends and teachers, which was a "fad" at the time. you just never realise how fascinating they will be one day!the first journal i finished was when i was 13 though; perhaps we need to write more in those transitional times, to sort things out? i can barely read it now, full of pop songs and fantasies about book characters! haha!
I've always had a bit of a problem trying to keep journals; I'm far too restless and twitchy and always trying to start over again in a fresh journal. The same has, unfortunately, applied to livejournal as well. But seeing other journals always makes me wish I could learn to keep my own. These are really very pretty and I especially like the legs in the corner and the shadow over the pages of journal4.png, and the pressed flower in journal5.png. Lovely.
oh yes, i suffer from the same journal switching urge! both online and off, in fact. recently i have taken to convincing myself that i need a separate notebook for this or that. and the consequence is that i am writing in five notebooks. how awful.& thank you, i am glad you like them! i wasn't sure they would interest anyone but me, you see. :)
Ah, yes, I know the need to keep separate journals as well. Then I start having a problem keeping them all properly up-to-date, and keeping them all properly categorized in terms of content, and the cycle never stops. I'm crazy about writing in journals and I never seem to be able to just sit still. Then, of course, I have a few blank journals that are just too pretty to blemish with my awful, awful handwriting and my desire to tear out pages and start fresh, so I just leave them and they collect dust. But they really are very nice. ;)
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your journal pages are very pretty and enchanting.and the first two are so sweet!I adore the poem, too :-)
thank you very much! :)i am bored and i thought they might amuse if only for a few seconds.
Your journals are a lot more artistic than mine. :pYesterday I read through a journal I had to write for school in the sixth grade. One of my teacher's comments: "A-. Please be neater." Which I think is an absolutely ridiculous thing to write in someone's journal!! ^^;At what age did you switch from writing your journals in Turkish to writing them in English? (I am a monolingual who likes to ask annoying questions such as this!)I love the third one from the bottom, with the pretty pink feet and the star and the lovely swirly lines. :) And the one above it, how cool!Hehe, is that Lord Asriel you're writing about in the one second from the bottom? ;D
hehe, thank you! My latest one is such a boring read that i have to do something to brighten it up a bit. When we were in Gocek, I'd left it on the coffee table and my Dad actually got up and turned it over because it was making him hungry! And my grandma asked whether it was a recipe book! XD"A-. Please be neater."Definitely inhibiting creativity! :[I think I probably first wrote in English when I received that second journal for Christmas. It says 'Secret Diary' on the front so I think I figured it should be in English. Even though my English would have been nowhere near as good as my Turkish (you might be able to make out "earlyer" on the page in the second photo, and other pages are covered in corrections by my Dad). But I certainly switched many times after that.The lady is made from wallpaper. I always love picking up free samples when I go to hardware shops. Sometimes when I go with someone, I make a show of saying "how d'you think this would look in the living room?" :PTeehee. Yes it does say Lord Asriel. Probably the only entry that mentions him though! Honest! :]
it is so super! (are those real flowers pasted on?) i'm kind of allergic to pollen, it makes life difficult to have artistic journals, but i keep petals in a forever friends round biscuit tin and i like to smell them on occasion. :D my journals are much less beautiful and full of scribbles that make no sense, therefore - jealous me. :
i'm in love with these. i always want to post such things but am never creative enough.bloodoranges - no duets after all, but it feels right. it always has. last move, i promise!
gosh, how delightful! how old were you? in '92 probably no more than...7, 8, 9? i believe i was five or six at the time. i wish i'd kept journals. i wrote a few entries when i was ten...but my handwriting was terrible and it was 'too ugly for my journal' - a present from my aunt with a picture of ballet slippers on the front. so eventually i ripped the pages out and stopped writing, until about thirteen when i picked it up again. i remember writing about cloth purses hidden in my clothes and a boy one grade higher than me that i fantasized about... ahh! sorry, i am digressing...! lovely journals, you have.
thank you so much Sammy! :) yes, they are real flowers. i have quite a passion for recording flora, only i never know their names!my creative writing journal is a forest of scribbles too, so do not be jealous! messiness is entirely necessary for creativity, i say.
pish! of course you are creative enough. as i said, these are just trivialities for passing the time.we shall have our duet some other way perhaps? i quite associate bloodoranges with you, so i am glad! :)
i was almost 8 when i wrote that first entry, the summer after first grade, i think. my teacher had suggested we try to keep a diary and my mother and i went to town and she bought me the notebook as a bayram present. at the back i have notes written by my primary school friends and teachers, which was a "fad" at the time. you just never realise how fascinating they will be one day!the first journal i finished was when i was 13 though; perhaps we need to write more in those transitional times, to sort things out? i can barely read it now, full of pop songs and fantasies about book characters! haha!
I've always had a bit of a problem trying to keep journals; I'm far too restless and twitchy and always trying to start over again in a fresh journal. The same has, unfortunately, applied to livejournal as well. But seeing other journals always makes me wish I could learn to keep my own. These are really very pretty and I especially like the legs in the corner and the shadow over the pages of journal4.png, and the pressed flower in journal5.png. Lovely.
oh yes, i suffer from the same journal switching urge! both online and off, in fact. recently i have taken to convincing myself that i need a separate notebook for this or that. and the consequence is that i am writing in five notebooks. how awful.& thank you, i am glad you like them! i wasn't sure they would interest anyone but me, you see. :)
Ah, yes, I know the need to keep separate journals as well. Then I start having a problem keeping them all properly up-to-date, and keeping them all properly categorized in terms of content, and the cycle never stops. I'm crazy about writing in journals and I never seem to be able to just sit still. Then, of course, I have a few blank journals that are just too pretty to blemish with my awful, awful handwriting and my desire to tear out pages and start fresh, so I just leave them and they collect dust. But they really are very nice. ;)
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